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underside dark bronzy-green, washed with gray-buff. Anal 

 region white. Undertail-coverts bronzy in centre and margined 

 with gray. Wings purplish-brown. Bill black. 



Total length, 4fin. Wing, 2|. Tail, 2|-. Culmen, \: 



Female. — Forehead chestnut-red. Rest of upperside like 

 the male. Underside like the male, 'excepting the throat, 

 which is buffy-brown with greenish bronzy spots. 



Total length, 4fin. Wing, 2. Tail, 2|-. Culmen, \. 



This fine species was discovered, the male in Ecuador, by 

 Mr. Bourcier, the female at Pasto, Columbia, by Delattre. 



I have several specimens collected in Ecuador by Buckley. 



It was dedicated to General Herran, who was then President 

 of the Republic of Colombia. 



Genus XXXIV. Lampropogon, Bon. Rev. and Mag. 



ZooL, 1854, p. 252. 



EuPOGONUS, Muls. and Verr., Class. Troch., 1865, p. 73. 



Type : Lajnpropogon ruficeps^ Bonaparte. 



Bill short, acutely pointed, nostrils hidden. Wings long, 

 reaching the end of tail. Tail forked, median rectrices 

 shortest, lateral and outermost ones gradually longer, all of 

 them uniform in colouration. Tarsi clothed. Sexes unlike. 



Habitat. — Bolivia. 



92. Lampropogon ruficeps, Gould, P.Z.S., 1846, p. 89.' 



Mellisiiga rujiceps, Gray, Gen. Birds, 1844, vol. i., p. 112. 



Rampho micron ruficeps, Bon. Consp. Gen, Av., 1850, vol. i., 

 p. 79. 



Lampropogon ruficeps, Bon. Rev. and Mag. ZooL, 1854, 

 p. 252. 



Red-capped Thorn-bill, Gould, Mon. Troch. vol. iii., p. 188. 



Le Ramphomicron à tète rousse, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1876. t. iii., p. 171. 



Habitat. — Peru and Bolivia. 



Male. — Forehead chestnut red. Upperside bronzy-green. 

 Tail bronze. Centre of throat metallic green, terminating 

 with some elong-ated feathers metallic o-olden. Sides of throat 



