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137. LopHORNIS MAGNIFICUS. : Q é : : f ¥ p : ‘ Vol Tih 119;
Ornismya strumaria, Dev. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1852, p. 215.

Habitat. South-eastern Brazil.

138. LopHornis Recuuus, Gould : : : : : : : ; : : : Vol. III. Pl. 120.
Habitat. Cochabamba in Bolivia.
I possess a bird of this genus from Peru, with a more truncate form of crest than that of Z. Regulus, the fine
feathers of which are rather largely tipped with spangles of dark green. This may probably prove to be, and I
believe is, really distinct ; I have consequently proposed for it the specific name of lophotes. In size and colouring

it very closely resembles the L. Regulus, with the exceptional difference in the form of the crest.

139. LopHorRNis LOPHOTES, Gould.

Habitat. Peru.

140. Lorpuornis Dexvatrret, Less. ; i ‘ 5 : : ; : : : Vol. III. Pl. 121.
Habitat. New Granada.

141. Lopuornis Recin«, Gould . 5 : : ; : ; : ; : ; : Vol. III. Pl. 122.

Habitat. New Granada.
Mr. Fraser, who killed an example at Zamora, in Ecuador, states that the irides of this species are black,

and its mandibles reddish flesh-colour, with a black tip; he adds that it was feeding from a large Guarumba tree.

142. LopHornis HELENZ . : : : : “ : : : : ; : : Vol. III. Pl. 123.

Habitat. Guatemala and Southern Mexico.

Mr. Salvin states that this species is not uncommon in the vicinity of Coban, and that its cry “is peculiarly
shrill and unlike that of any other species I know; hence its presence may be noticed if only the cry of a passing
bird be heard. It feeds among the Salvie that so abound in the mountain-hollows about Coban ; and it is said also
to show a partiality for the flowers of the Tasisco when that tree is in full bloom in the month of December. In
the month of November females of this species are very rare. Of the specimens I collected, there was only one
female to seventeen males.

“In the Indian language of Coban, Lophornis Helene has, besides the name ‘ Tzunnun,’ which is applied to all

the small Humming-Birds, the additional name of ‘ Achshukub.’ ‘The Spanish name is ‘ E/ Gorrion Cachudo ’—the

Horned Humming-Bird.”—Jbis, vol. ii. p. 268.

Although I have placed all the species known by the trivial name of Coquettes in the genus Lophornis, the

L. chalybeus and L. Verreauxi have been separated by M. Cabanis into a distinct genus, under the name of Polemistria.

Genus Potemisrria, Cad.

These birds, as will be seen on reference to the plates on which they are represented, vary considerably from
all the true Lophornithes; the feathers of the neck-frill are very different, and the tail is much longer and more
rounded. I shall not be surprised if another species of this peculiar form should be discovered ; for I have in my
possession the skin of a female from Bogota, which I am inclined to think is the female of an unknown species.

143. PoLEMISTRIA CHALYBEA.
Lophornis chalybeus_. : : : : : : : ‘ : ' : : Vol. IIT. Pl. 124.
Habitat. Brazil.

144. PoLteMIsTRIA VERREAUXI.
Lophornis Verreauxi_ . ‘ : : : : : : a : : : : Vol. III. Pl. 125.
Habitat. Peru.

I shall now proceed to the single species of the genus Discura. The band which crosses the lower part of the

back allies this bird to the Lophornithes on the one hand, and to Prymnacantha and the Gouldie on the other.

Genus Discura, Bonap.

145. DiscuRA LONGICAUDA Vol. III. Pl. 126.

Habitat. Cayenne, Brazil, and Guiana.