LOPHORNIS ADORABILIS,

Salvin.

Salvin’s Coquette.

Lophornis adorabilis, Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870,

p. 207.—Elhot, Syn. Deelooy
Dialia adorabihs, Muls. Hist. Nat. Oise

aux-Mouches, vol. iit. p. 208, pl., 1876.

Mr. Savin must have been pleased when the male of this Humming

-bird came under his notice, and when
he saw how different it was from all its immediate allies.

The extreme beauty of the little fairy demanded
some pretty euphonious name ; and he applied to it that of adoradilis, one which, I
the end of time. The well-read Trochilidist will not require to be told that there
this ornamental group, nine of which have been figured in vol. iii.
years ago.

doubt not, will last to
of the ‘Monograph,’ published twenty

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The tenth, which I now figure, will, I trust, with many others equally rare, add materially to the usefulness
and interest of this ‘ Supplement.’

In my former work I placed all the species enumerated below in the single genus Lophornis ; but since
that date they have been separated into no less than five genera, none of which was proposed by myself,
though I think that they are very fairly recognizable :

 

Lophornis ornatus. Trinidad. Telamon regine. Colombia.

— gouldie. North Brazil. Diaha adorabilis. Veragua.
[eee aeniyicus. south Brazil: Paphosia helene. Guatemala.
Telamon regulus. Bolivia. Bellatriv chalybeus. Bolivia.

delattrii. Colombia. ——— yperreauxt. Peru, Colombia.

The following is Mr. Osbert Salvin’s account of this novelty :—‘«This beautiful species is singularly
distinct from any of its congeners, but perhaps belongs rather to the ZL. magnifica group than to that
containing LL. helene. In the whole genus, however, no other member has the erectile feathers on the
forehead, the thread-like white plumes of the crest, or the long pointed feathers of the throat, all of which
render this bird most distinct when compared with its allies.

“The first specimen obtained by Arcé was a female, which, though evidently belonging to a distinct
species, I hesitated to describe. The specimen was shot at Bugaba. ‘The last collection includes the male,
which Arcé tells me bis brother David obtained high up on the volcano of Chiriqui. That so fine a bird
should have remained so long undiscovered seems singular; but the fact, I think, shows that the range of
the species is extremely limited.

“No less than two other species of Lophornis are found in this portion of Central America, viz.:—QZ.
helene, the Mexican and Guatemalan bird, which is also to be met with in Costa Rica; and the southern
L. delattrii, which seems to be abundant about Calobre and on the Isthmus of Panama.”

Mr. Elliot states that the male has the forchead ruby-red ; crown pure white, narrowing to a point on the
occiput, from each side of which springs a few narrow, lengthened, dark green feathers; sides of the head,
bordering the white, dark brown; back and wing-coverts bronzy green ; rump dark purple, crossed by a
narrow white band; throat metallic dark green; upper part of the breast white; flanks bronzy green ;
abdomen and under tail-coverts dark rufous ; tail deep rufous, with the tips of the median feathers and edges
of the others greenish brown ; wings purple.

Female. Head and ears black ; throat white, sparingly spotted with golden oneeny tail banded with a
broad bar near the extremity ; median rectrices tinged in the middle with a greenish tint.

Total length 2¢ inches, wing 18, tail Inc, culmen 5.

are now ten species of