Genus Lepidolarynx Reichenb.

This form, of which the single species known has received the above generic appellation, differs in many particulars from the preceding; the bill is less elongated and not so straight, while the tail is decidedly forked; independently of which, the gular mark is very different, the entire throat being luminous, while in all the species of Heliomaster the chin is black.

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  Lepidolarynx mesoleucus

  Habitat: Brazil

  Plate 262 Heliomaster mesoleucus Stripe-breasted Star-throat

  • Lepidolarynx mesoleucus, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p. 13.
  • Selasphorus (Lepidolarynx) mesoleucus, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p. 11.
  • Ornithomyia mesoleuca, Bonap. in Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 251.
  • Heliomaster squamosus, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 53.
  • Calothorax mesoleucus, Burm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 339, 1.
  • Trochilus mystacinus, Vieill. MSS.