27. HELIOlIASrEB. 119 



27. HELIOMASTER. t. 



Type, 

 Heliomaster, B2}. Compt. Bend. xxx. p. 382 (1850) ; 



Ullwt, Si/n. Troch. p. 85 H. fiircifer. 



Calliplilox 6. Calliporidia, Beich. Aufa. d. Col. p. 12. 



Eanr/e. Soubhern Brazil, Paraguay, Argentine Republic. 



1. Heliomaster fiircifer. 



Pica flores cola de tixera, Azam, Apunt. ii. p. lU^-i, iw. 299 (180.5). 



Trocliilus furcifer, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 2.^0. 



Trocliilus caudacutus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hkt. N. aH. p. .347; id. Enc. 



Meth. p. o49. 

 Ornismya augelfe, ie.-i.s-. III. Orn. pis. 4-5, 46 ; d'Orb. S,- Lafr. Sijn. 



Av. ii. p. 28. 

 TrocliiliLs regis, Schreib. Naturf. Wien, 1832, Ms, 1833, p. 533 ; 



id. Colleet. ad Faun. Bms. i. pi. i. fig. 1 ; Peh. Orn. Bras. p. 30 ; 



Gvay, Hand-l. B. i. p. 138. 

 Heliomaster angelas, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 70 ; Gould, Man. Troch. 



iv. pi. 263 (May 1853) ; Burm. J.f. Orn. 1860, p. 244, I860, p. 229; 



id. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 466 ; id. La-Plata Beise, ii. p. 448. 

 Calliphlox S. Calliperidia augelse, Beich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 12 ; id. Troch. 



Enum. p. 10, pi. 842. ff. 4986-89. 

 Ornitliomyia augelse, Bp. Bev. Zool. 1854, p. 251. 

 Campylop'terus inornatus, 5«n?j.. J.f. Orn.lSQO, p. 244; id. La-Plata 



Beise, ii. p. 447. 

 Calliperidia angelae, Gould, Tntr. Troch. ]). 141 ; Muls. S,- Verr. Class. 



Troch. i. p. 50 ; Elliot, Ibis, 1877, p. 137. 

 Trocliilus angelas, Burm. J.f. Orn. 1866, p. 89. 

 Calliperidia furcifer, Scl. S,- Salv. Norn. Av. Neotr. p. 90 ; Durnford, 



Ibis, 1877, p. 184 ; Scl. S,- Huds. Arf/. Orn. ii. p. 5. 

 Calliperidia regis, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, ii. p. 278, pi. 58 ; 



id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 215. 

 Heliomaster furcifer, Elliot, S,pi. Troch. p. 86 ; E. W. Wliite, P. Z. S. 



1882, p. 616. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining bronze-green, glittering on 

 the middle of the back and crown ; under surface glittering blue ; 

 the middle of the throat glittering rosy -red ; flanks, under tail- 

 coverts, and tail greener blue, a large white flank-spot ; bill black. 

 Total length about 5 inches, wing 2; tail, central rectrices 1, 

 lateral 1-6 ; bill 1-35. 



Fenvde. Upper surface uniform bronzy grass-green ; under surface 

 greyish white ; throat-feathers with blackish discs, a white line on 

 each side from the gape ; lateral rectrices with a dark subterminal 

 band and white tips. 



Hah Southern Brazil, Paraguay, and the Argentine Republic. 



« c? ad • <^ 2 ad. Chapada,Matto Grosso,Brazil, Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 "sk. ixxXy (II. H. Smith). 



c. (S juv. sk. Matto Grosso, Brazil, Jidy Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Nafterer). 



d. cJ ad. sk. Cnntinho, Brazil, .luly Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{Natterer). 



