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TEOCHILI. 



Key to tlie F^peclex, 



(I. Crown shining- grass-gveen like the back ; under 

 tail-ooverts white. 

 «'. Throat glittering green, more or less tinged 

 with blue. 



n". Larger latirostris, p. 60. 



h" . Smaller magica, p. 61. 



h' . Throat glittering green, without blue shade .. laivrencii,-^.Qi\. 

 b. Crown glittering blue or bluish gi-een; under 

 tail-coverts dark, 

 c'. Crown glittering bluish green ; under tail- 



coYerta brown doubleclayi, p. 62. 



d'. Crown glittering blue ; under tail-coverts steel- 

 blue nitidfi, p. Cy2. 



1. lache latirostris. 



Cynanthus latirostris, Sw. Phil. 31af/. new ser. i. p. 441 . 



Ornismya lessoni, Delaitre, Rev. Zool. 18.39, p. 15. 



Aniazilius latirostris, Bjj. Consp. Av. i. p. 77 ; Eev. Zool. 1854, p. 254. 



Aniazilia latirostris, Beich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 10. 



Circe latirostris, Go^ild, Mon. froch. v. pi. 338 (May 1857) ; id. Intr. 



Troc/i. p. 109; Scl. Cat. Am.B. p. 317; id. P.Z.S. 1858, p. 297, 



1859, p. 367, 1864, p. 1 77 ; Heine, J.f. Orn. 1863, p. 196 ; A. Duges, 



La Nat. i. p. 141 ; Villada, La Nat. ii. p. 366; Later. Mem. Bost. 



Soc. N. H. ii. p. 292 (partini) ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, ii. 



p. 46, iv. p. 192 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 208 ; Eudes- 



Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 487. 

 Hylocharis /3. Cyanophaia lazula, Beich. Avfi, d. Col. p. 10 ; id. Troeh, 



Emim. p. 8, pi. 770. ff. 4783-4. 

 Sapphironia circe, B2). Bev. Zool. 1854, p. 256. 

 Hvlocharis /3. Cyanophaia circe, Beich. Troch. Enuni. p. 8, pi. 771. 



■ff, 4786-8, 

 Plylocharis doubledayi, Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. ]). 44 (fide 



Goidd'). 

 Hylocharis latirostris, Muls. 8)- Verr. Class. Troch. p. 38; Gray, 



Hand-l. i. p. 151. 

 lache latirostris, Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 235 ; Scott, Auk, iii. p. 431. 

 Trochilus circe, Bourc. (Jide Gould). 

 Trochilus schimperi. Saucer. MS. {fide Gould). 



Aclidt male. Upper surface shining grass-green with a shade of 

 bronze, duller on the crown ; under surface dark bluish grass-green, 

 centre of the throat more or less shaded with dark glittering blue ; 

 under tail-coverts white ; tail dark steel-blue, the middle rectrices 

 tipped with dark grey ; bill coral red, tipped with black. Total 

 length about 3'8 inches, wing 2*2 ; tail, lateral rectrices 1'3, central 

 0-95; billl. 



Adult female. Similar to the male on the upper surface; under 

 surface grey, paler on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; a long 

 postocular white stripe ; lateral rectrices tipped with white ; tail less 

 deeply forked. 



Considerable variation exists in the colouring of the throat 

 in the male. A series of specimens, all shot in the middle of 

 February in the Sierra of BolaTios by Mr. Eiehardson, show every 

 gradation from a deep blue throat to a nearly pure green one. 



