34, CYANOLESBIA. 



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The birds from Eastern Yenezuela and Merida, as well as the 

 violet-tailed form from Colombia, arc without names that can be 

 properly ajiplied to them. 



Form a. 

 a. c? ad. sk. 



Forests of Caripe, E. Vena- Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 zuela, June 1867 {A. 

 Goer in ff). 



Form h. C. margarefho'. (Heine). 



b, 0. S ad. sk. Caracas, Venezuela {Salle). Gould Coll. 



d. c?ad. ;e. $ad. Caracas. Gould Coll. 



sk. 



/. 2 ad. sk. Valley of Aragua, Vene- E. Dysou [C.]. 



zuela. 



ff. 2 ad. sk. Venezuela (Spence). Sclater Coll. 



Form c. 

 h. cJ ad. sk. 



Merida, Venezuela (y. I^er- 

 lejiscli). 



Form d, C. gorgo (Pieich.). 



i-n. cjad. ;o-n S Colombia (Bogota make), 

 juv.; s-v. $ad. 

 sk. 



Form e. ? 



%v-y. (S ad. ; z. Colombia (Bogota make). 



5 ad. sk. 

 a'. S ad. ; U. $ 



ad. St. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sahiu-Godman, Gould, 

 & Sclater Colls. 



Salvin-Godman 

 Gould CoUs. 

 Purchased. 



2. Cyanolesbia ccelestis. 



Cynanthus ccelestis, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 102; Muls. ^'- Verr. 



Class. Troch. p. 83 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. 96. 

 Cynanthus cyanm-us, Scl. P. Z. S. 1869, pp. 70, 95 ; Goidd, P. Z. S. 



1870, p. 803. 

 Lesbia ccelestis, Scl. Cat, Am. B. p. 301 ; Heine, J. f. Orn. 1863. 



p. 212. _ y ^ > J 



Trochilus ccelestis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 143. 

 Cynanthus cvauurus ccelestis, Berl. Sf Tacz. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 507, 



1884, p. 305. 



Adult male. Similar to that of C. fjorgo, but larger and with a 

 larger bill ; the under surface is browner, the feathers having brown 

 edges, and this also applies to the under tail-coverts. 



Adult female. The crown varies from shining green to shining 

 blue, and the breast is always white. 



Young males go through the same changes as in C. gorgo. 



Hah. Colombia (Popayan) and Ecuador. 



a. cJ ad. sk. 



b. (5 ad. sk. 



Popayan, Colombia. 

 Intac, Ecuador {Buckley). 



Gould Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



