Genera of Hitmming Birds. 95 



Psalidoprymna amaryllis, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein., 

 i860, t. iii., p. 53. 



Train-Bearer, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iii., p. 170. 



L a rge Ta in - Bea re r, 



La Lesbie de Victoire, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., t. iii., 



p. 287. 



Habitat. — Columbia, and Ecuador. 



Male. — Upperside, breast, upper part of abdomen and flanks 

 golden-green. Throat brilliant metallic golden-green. Lower 

 part of abdomen and undertail-coverts rufous. Tail purplish 

 black, each feather tipped with greenish-bronze, the two outer- 

 most, more than twice longer than the longest of the median 

 lectrices. Wings purplish-brown. Bill black. 



Total length, gin. Wing, 2%. Tail, 6^. Culmen, \. 



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/^?///rt'/<?.— Upperside golden-green. Underside white spotted 

 with green, a patch of splendid metallic gold feathers on centre 

 -of throat. Undertail-coverts buff. Tail half the length of that 

 -of the male, coloured the same, outer web of outermost feather 

 grayish-brown to within an inch-and-a-half of tip. 



Dedicated by ^^lulsant to his mother, Madame Victoire 

 Mulsant. 



131. Lesbia .\E0UAT0RIALIS, Boucard, Hum. Bird, 1893, vol. 



iii., p. 6. 



Ecuador Train-Bearer. 



La Lesbie de l'Equateur. 



Habitat. — Ecuador. 



Male. — -Upperside, sides of throat and breast, vent and 

 flanks grass-green. Chin and throat metallic grass-green. 

 Lower part of abdomen and undertail-coverts pale rufous. 

 Rest of plumage as L. victoriae. Tail longer, with tips of central 

 rectrices greener than in the preceding species. 



Total length, g\iY\. Wing, 2%. Tail, 7. Culmen, \. 



Eefnale. — Upperside grass-green. Underside pale rufous, 

 washed with green. Throat white, speckled with green. A 

 small patch of pale golden feathers in the centre of throat. Tail, 

 half the length of that of male and coloured similarly. 



I have separated this species from L. Victoriae, because in the 

 many specimens which I have, (over one hundred), collected 

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