7. GLAITCIS. 41 



Adult male. Upper surface shining bronze-green, darker on the 

 back of the neck and upper back, and almost black on the nape 

 and posterior part of the crown ; ujiper tail-coverts greyish blue ; 

 forehead, as far as a line between the eyes, glittering dark violet- 

 blue ; under surface black ; flanks tinged with green ; under tail- 

 coverts dark steel-blue ; tail dark steel-l)lue ; lateral rectriccs 

 tipped with bronze ; bill black. Total length about 4 inches, wing 

 2-2, tail 1-2, bill 1-3. 



Female. Paler and greener on the upper surface : the forehead 

 glittering bluish green ; under surface grey ; abdomen and flanks 

 washed with green ; lateral rectrices more broadly tipped with 

 bronze. 



Younri birds of both sexes are destitute of the glittering fore- 

 head. In other respect^ they resemble the female. 



H. euphrosince has frequently been considered a distinct species, 

 but I have no doubt that it was based upon the adult female 

 of H. johannce. 



Hah. Colombia, Ecuador, Upper Amazons Valley, and British 

 Guiana. 



a-e. c? ad. ; /-/. Colombia (Bosrota make). Salvin-Godman & 



2 ad. sk. " Gould Colls. 



k~m. (S ad. ; n. Rotuno, Ecuador {Buckley). Gould Coll. 



$ ad. sk. 



o. (S ad. ; p. 5 Upper Amazons (E. Bcirtlett). Gould Coll. 



ad.sk. 



q-t. S ad. ; u-w. Merume Mts., Brit. Guiana, Salvin-Godman & 



$ ad. sk. July & Sept. {H. Wlntehj). Sclater Colls. 



7. GLATJCIS. 



lype. 

 Glaucis, Boie, Isis, 1831, p. ;j4.j G. hir.«uta. 



Range. Tropical America, from Costa Eica to Ecuador, the 

 Amazons Valley, and South-eastern Brazil, Venezuela, Guiana, 

 Trinidad, Tobago, and Grenada. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tail chestnut, with a subterminal black bar and 



white tip hirsutus, p. 41. 



h. Tail reddish bronze tipped with white dohnii, p. 4o. 



1. Glaucis Mrsuta, 



Polvtmus brasiliensis, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 670. 



Trochilus hirsutus, Gm. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 490 ; Vieil/. K Diet. d'Hisf. 



N. vii. p. 3.52; Temm. PI. Col. 120. f. 2. 

 Trochilus brasiliensis, Lat/i. Ind. Orn. p. .308 : Wied, Beitr. iv. 



p. Ill : Cah. in Schoml. Guiana, iii. p. 708. 



