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with purplish; rectrices greenish bronze, indistinctly tipped with 

 pale buffy grayish and narrowly margined terminally with dull 

 whitish; sides of head and neck dull metallic bluish, the feathers 

 with narrow pale brownish buffy margins; under parts, including 

 malar region, white, the sides of chest tinged with metallic greenish 

 blue and spotted with pale olive, the median portion of under tail- 

 coverts tinged with pale grayish or olive; maxilla dusky, more 

 brownish basally; mandible whitish (in dried skin) with tip dusky; 

 length (before skinning), 109; extent (before skinning), 139: wing, 

 54; tail, 30; exposed culmen, 21.5. 



Northwestern Mexico, in State of Sonora (Nacosari) and southern 

 Arizona (Palmerlee, Cochise County). 



Cyanomyia salvini Brewster, Auk, x, No. 3, July, 1893, 214 (Nacosari, Sonora; 

 coll. W. Brewster). 



Uranomitra salvini Boucard, The Hum. Bird, v, part iv, Dec, 1895, 400 (So- 

 nora). — Bishop, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 337 (Palmerlee, Chochise Co., Arizona, 

 1 spec, July 4, 1905; descr. young female).— American Ornithologists' 

 Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 348 (Arizona); Check List, 3d ed., 

 1910, 206. 



A[mazilia] salvini Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 62 (monogr.). 



[Amazilia] salvini Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 109. 



[Agyrtria] salvini Simon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 11. 



Genus AGYRTRIA Reichenbach. 



Agyrtria Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 10; Troch. Enum., 1855, 7. 



(Type, Ornismya brevirostris Lesson.) 

 Leucodora Mulsant, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, 1873, 309. (Type, Trochilus 



norrisii Bourcier.) 

 [Agyrtria] /?. Uranomitra Reichenbach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1853, extra-heft, 1854 



(Aufz. der Colibr.), 10. (Type, Trochilus francix Bourcier and Mulsant.) 

 Cyanomyia Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., vi, part 2, 1854, 254. (New 



name for Uranomitra Reichenbach.) 

 Cyanomya (emendation) Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, 



livr. 3, 1878, 169. 

 Leucolia Mulsant and Verreaux, Mem. Soc. Imp. Sci. Nat. Cherb., xii, (ser. 2, 



tom. ii), 1866, 175; Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, 1874, 211. (Type, ?) 



Medium-sized to rather small Trochilidse (length about 75-95 mm.) 

 with straight, depressed bill longer than head, nasal operculum with 

 outer and anterior half exposed, tail more or less emarginate, abdo- 

 men (sometimes whole of median under parts) wliite, and tail never 

 black, steel blue, nor purplish bronze (usually olive-bronze, with 

 subterminal portion darker). 



Bill straight, decidedly broader than deep, slightly to moderately 

 expanded basally, the exposed culmen slightly less than one-third 

 to nearly one-half as long as wing, the interramal space narrow and 

 relatively short; nasal operculum rather tliin (not tumid), with 

 rather less than anterior and outer halves exposed; wing normal 

 (tenth primary decidedly longer than ninth and none of the pri- 



