150 TEOCHILI. 



t, u. (S ad. ; v. Sarayacu, Ecuador {Btickley). Gould Coll. 



2 ad. sk. 



w. (^ ad. sk. Ecuador (Fraser). Sclater Coll. 



.v-z. (S ad. ; «'- Ecuador {Buckley). Gould Coll. 



c'. 5 ad. sk. 



d', e. cf ad. sk. Ecuador. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/'. c?ad. sk. Vqxvl? {Warszeiriez). Gould Coll. 



g, h'. cJ ad. st. Purchased. 



39. METALLURA. rr 



Type. 



Metallura, Govid, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 94 M. opaca. 



Urolampra, Cab. ^ Heine, Mtis. Hein. iii. p. 68 (1860). M. tjriauthina. 

 Metallura (Lavinia), Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, 

 iii. p. 100 (1877) M. eupogon. 



Rcmge. Audes from Venezuela and Colombia to Bolivia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Upper and under surfaces brownish or purple- 



black ; gular spot glittering bluish green. 



a. Kectrices beneath glittering copper- 

 colour ; under tail-coverts bronzy purple, 

 edged with dusky rufous opaca, p. 150. 



b'. Rectrices beneath glittering vinous-purple; 

 under tail-coverts purple-black edged 

 with rufous jekkii, p. 151. 



c . Rectrices glittering purple ; under tail- 

 coverts greenish edged with ochraceous . chlo7-o])0(/on, p. 151. 



b. Upper and under surfaces shining bronzy 



green. 

 d'. Gular spot glittering green. 

 a". Gular spot with definite edges. 



a'". Larger (eneicauda, p. 152. 



b'" . Smaller. 



a*. Rectrices beneath glittering cop- 

 pery purple tyrianthina, p 152. 



h*. Rectrices beneath glittering violet- 

 purple smaragdinicollis, p. 154. 



b". Gular spot without definite edges, 

 c'". Rectrices beneath gUttering bronzy 



green jjrimolina, p. 154. 



d'". Rectrices beneath glittering purple . williami, p. 155. 

 e. Gular spot glittering red eiipogon, p. 155. 



1. Metallura opaca. 



Trochilus (Lampornis) opacus, LicJit. in Tsch. Conttp. p. 38. 

 Trochilus opacus, Tsch. Faun. Per. Orn. p. 248. 



Trochilus ( ) cupreicauda, Gould, P. Z. S. 1846, p. 87. 



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



Mellisuga cupreicauda. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 113. 



Metallura cupreicauda, Gould, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 94 ; id. Mon. Troch. 



iii. pi. 191 (May 1859) ; id. Int.r. Troch. p. Ill ; Bp. Consp. At: i. 



p. 75: Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 8 ; id. Troch. Enum. p. 5, pi. 721. 



tf. 4638-9 ; Sol. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 987, 1868, p. 569 ; Muls. 



Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. 110. 



