174 Bangs — On Some Birds from Santa Maria, Colombia. 



straight, cylindrical (slightly shorter and broader than in Helianlhea) ; 

 wings reaching about to end of tail ; tarsus naked with the exception of 

 a bunch of white feathers near heel ; tail long, broad, forked, pure white ; 

 upper and under tail-coverts white ; whole crown, forehead, and lores 

 metallic. 



(For size, colors, and arrangement of colors, see description of type 

 species below.) 



Leucuria phalerata sp. nov. 



Type (and only specimen) from Macotama, Colombia. No. 5731, tf 

 adult, coll. of E. A. & O. Bangs. Collected June 17, 1898, by W. W. 

 Brown, Jr. Altitude, 8000 ft. 



Color. — Forehead, crown and lores very brilliant metallic blue, with, in 

 some lights, green reflections ; auriculars, back and wing-coverts dark 

 grass green, in some lights quite dusky on cervix and upper back ; chin 

 dark grass green with slight metallic reflections ; throat metallic violet ; 

 breast metallic sea green ; abdomen shining grass green ; wings purplish- 

 brown ; feathers of tarsi, upper and under tail-coverts and tail, including 

 shafts of feathers, pure white. 



Size.—c? adult : Length (skin), 1 20 ; wing, 72.2 ; tail— longest rectrix, 47, 

 shortest rectrix, 35.6; culmen, 26.8; greatest width of outer rectrix, 9.8. 



Remarks. — Of this fine hummer M r. Brown has taken but one adult 

 male— the only one seen in months of collecting. This adds another 

 striking local species of humming bird to the five already described from 

 the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. 



Thalurania columbica (Bourc). 



Two adults, male and female, from San Miguel and Palomina. 



Metallura smaragdinicollis (D'Orb. and Lafr.). 



Two adults; male from Palomina, May 10, female from San Miguel, 

 June 12, 1898. 



Panychlora russata Salv. and Godm. 



Six adults, five males and a female, from San Miguel and Palomina, 

 May and June. 



Myiotheretes striaticollis Scl. 



One adult male from Macotama, June 17, 1898. 



Ochthoeca poliogaster Salv. and Godm. 



One adult female from Macotama, June 17, 189S. 



Sayornis cineracea (Lafr.). 



One young in first plumage from San Miguel, June 4, 1898. 



