EULAMPIS JUGULA RIS.

Purple-breasted Carib.

Le Colibri a gorge carmin, Buff. Hist. Nat. des ( is. dor., tom. vi. p. 56.—Aud. et Vieill. Ois. dor..
tom. 1. p. 126.—Sonn. Edit. Buff. Hist. Nat. des Ois.. tom. Xvi. p. 219.
Red-hreasted Humming-bird, Edw. Glean. in Nat. Hist... pt. ii. pl. 266. fig. 1.—Lath. Gen. Syn.,
vol. ii. p. 753.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p- 288. pl. 39.—Lath. Gen. Hist.. vol. iv.
p. 301,
Trochilus jugularis, Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p- 190.—Ib. Gmel. Edit.. tom. i. p. 459.—Lath.
Ind. Orn., vol. i. p- 305.—Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2nde Edit., tom. i. p. Lexxiy.
Eulampis jugularis, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Ay., p- 72, Eulampis, sp. 1.—Reichenb. Aufz. der
Colibris, m EAs Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. L854, p. 250.
Polytmus jugularis, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, voll. i. p. LOS, Polytmus, sp. 19.
Le Grenat, Buff. Hist. Nat. des Ois., tom. vi. p- 48.—Ib. Sonn. Edit., tom. xxii. p. 219.—Aud. et
Vieill. Ois. dor., tom. i. poids pl. 4.—Vieill. Dict. Sci. Nat., tom. x. p.51.—Drapiez,
Dict. Class. d’Hist. Nat., tom. iv. p- 318.—Dumont, Dict. Sei. Nat.. tom. x. p. Ol.
Trochilus auratus, Gmel. Edit. Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 487.—Less. Hist. Nat. des Col., p. 46.
pl. 10.—Ib. Ind. Gen. et Syn. des Ois. du gen. Trochilus. p. Vii.
granatinus, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. ii. p. 752. pl. 34.—Ib. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 305.
Bancrofti, Lath. Ind. Orn.. vol. . p. 317.
eyanomelas, Gmel. Edit. Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 498.
violaceus, Gmel. Edit. Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 488.—Briss. Orn., tom. iii. p. 685.—
Vieill. Eney. Méth. Orn., part 2. p. 552. pl. 129. fig. 4.
Auritus, Vieill. Ency. Méth. Orn., part 2. p. 555. pl. 130. fig. 2.
Le Colibri violet, Buff. Hist. Nat. des Ois.. tom. vi. p. 97.—Ib. Pl. Enl. 600. fig. 1.—Aud. et
Vieill. Ois. dor., tom. i. p. 126.
Black and blue Humming-bird, Bancr. Hist. of Guiana. p. 167.—Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. ii. p. 782.
—Ib. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 337.
Le noir bleu, Aud. et Vieill. Ois. dor.. tom. i. p. 116.
Polytmus Cayanensis violaceus, Briss. Orn., vol. iii. p. 683. pl. xxxv. fig. 3.
Topaza violacea, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 110, Topaza, sp. 2.
Le Colibri a gorge grenat, Aud. et Vieill. Ois. dor., tom. i. p. 126.
Garnet-throated Humming-bird, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. ii. p. 752. pl. 34.—Ib. Gen. Hist., vol. iv.
p. 800. pl. lxxv, & var. A, B.
Certhia prasinoptera, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 800.—Mus. Carls., pl. 81.
Le Souimanga prasinoptere, Aud. et Vieill. Ois. dor., tom. ii. p. 65.
Green-winged Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl., vol. ii. p. 163.
Cynanthus? jugularis, Jard. Nat. Lib. Humming Birds, vol. ii. p. 145.
Trochilus cyaneus, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 309.
venustissimus, Gmel. Edit. Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 490.

Crimson-headed Blue Humming-bird, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. ul. p- (62.—Ib. Gen. Hist. vol =

p. 317.

 

Tuere are at least three well-known species of the present form, all of which inhabit the West Indian Islands,

and one of them—the bird here figured—is said by some authors to extend its range to Guiana and Surinam :

but that it is ever found in those countries appears to me to be somewhat uncertain, for I have never yet