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Key to the Species. 



a. General plumage shiuiug green. 



«'. Under tail-coverts white; ear-plumes glittering 



purple serrirostris, p. lOG. 



//. Under tail-coverts dusky, -washed -with green ; 

 ear-plumes glittering blue. 

 a". Cliin glittering- hlue. 



o'". Middle of the throat glittering green. 



«'. Forehead dull green. . . , iolata, p. 107. 



h\ Forehead blue (/enncma, p. 108. 



//". Middle of the throat glittering reddish 



bronze corusccms, p. 101). 



b". Chin glittering green like the throat. 



c'". Abdomen blue tMlassina, p. 109. 



(T". Abdomen green , cyanotis, p. 110. 



b. General plumage bro-wn delphince, p. 111. 



1. Petasophora serrirostris. 



Trochilus serrirostris, Vieill. N. Diet. (TTIist. N. vii. p. 359 ; ul Enc. 



Meth. p. .561 ; Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouc/ies, Siqy))!. p. 9G. 

 Trochilus petasophora, Wied, Eeise, ii. p. 191 ; Beitr. iv. p. 76 ; 



Temm. Fl. Col. 20.3. fig. 3; Less. Lnd. Gen. Troch. p. viii. 

 Colibri crispus, Sjnx, Av. Bras. i. 80, pi. 81. 

 Grypus vieilloti, Steph. in Shaids Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 256. 

 Ornismya petasophora, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, pp. xxxviii, 



37, pi. i. 

 Trochilus (Lophornis) petasophorus. Tsch. Fauna Per. p. 245. 

 Petasophora serrirostris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1 847, p. 8 ; id. 3Ion. Troch. iv. 



pi. 223 (May 1853) ; id. Lntr. Troch. p. 124 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 69 ; id. 



Bev. Zool. 1854, p. 250 ; Beich. Avfz. d. Col. p. 13 : Cab. ^- Heine, 



Mas. Hcin. iii. p. 25 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 306 ; Muls. ^- Verr. Class. 



Troch. p. 48; Peh. Orn. Bras. p. 28; Beinh. Vidensk. Medd.Nat. 



For. Kjob. 1870, p. 105 ; Mtiot, Lbis, 1876, p. 406, 1877, p. 137 ; 



id. 8yn. H. Birds, p. 52 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, ii. p. 153, 



iv. p. 202 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 211 ; Scl. Sf Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 029 ; Salv. Cat. StricJd. Coll. p. 366 ; Eudes-Desl. 



Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 366 ; Scl. Sf Huds. Arg. Orn. ii. p. 3 ; Allen, 



Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. ii. p. 258. 

 Petasophora gouldi, Bp. Cdnsp. i. p. 69. 

 Petasophora chalcotis, Licht. MS., Beich. Attfa. d. Col. p. 13. 

 Petasophora crispa, Burm. Syst. XJeb. ii. p. 335 ; id. J. f. Orn. 18G0, 



p. 244 ; id. La-Plata Beise, ii. p. 447. 

 Polytmus serrirostris, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 127. 



Aditlt male. Upper surface pale grass-green ; under surface 

 shining green, the throat glittering,- each feather -with a dark centre 

 and a shining edge ; ear-plumes glittering purple ; under tail-coverts 

 Avhite ; central rcctriccs bluish green, lateral the same with a wide 

 submarginal band ; bill black. Total length about 5 inches, -wing 

 2"8; tail, central rcctriccs I'G, lateral 1-7 ; bill 0'9. 



Female. Similar to the male ; the outermost pair of rectrices 

 whitish towards the end of the outer web. 



