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1. Heliangelns clarissae. 



Ornisinva clarissre, f?e Longuem. Rec. Zool. 1841, p. 306; id. Mag. 



ZooLlS^-2, Ois. pi. 26. 

 Mellisug.a clarissse, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 112. 

 Heliangehis Clarissas, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 76 ; id. Rev. Zool. 1854, 



p. 252; Gould, Mon. Troch.iv. pi. 241 CMav 1855) ; id. Intr. Troch. 



p. 132 ; Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p.>5 \ Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 308 ; 

 Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 378; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. 84, 



iv.p. 218; id. Ann. Soc.Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 219; Elliot, Syn. Troch. 



p. 89 ; Berl. J.f. Orn. 1884, p. 310, 1887, p. 322. 

 Trocliilus /3. Anactoria clarissse, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 12 ; id. Troch. 



Enum. pi. 830. ff. 4953-55. 

 Trocliilus fi. Auactoria libussa, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 12. 

 Anactoria clarissse, Muls. Sf Verr. Class. Troch. p. 69. 

 Troehilus clarissse, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 139. 

 Heliangelus taczanowskii, Pelz. Ibis, 1877, p. 338 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. 



Ois.-Mouches, iv. p. 218. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining green, slightly tinged with a 

 golden or bronze hue, a little darker on the rump ; head and neck 

 nearly black when viewed from in front ; a small frontal spot and 

 the lower breast glittering grass-green ; throat glittering rosy red, 

 shading into glittering purple towards the sides and chin ; pectoral 

 band white ; abdomen green, each feather edged with greyish buff; 

 under tail-coverts white, with a dusky shaft-stripe ; central rectrices 

 shining grass-green like the back, lateral purple-black ; bill black. 

 Total length 4-3 inches, wing 2-8 : tail, central rectrices 1-6, lateral 

 1-7; bill 0-9. 



Female. Very similar to the male on the upper surface, the bright 

 frontal spot faintly shown ; the throat is dusky black, each feather 

 with paler lateral edges. 



Young birds resemble the female, and the males, as they advance 

 to maturity, assume the bright feathers of the throat by degrees, 

 the bright frontal spot appearing simultaneously. 



Hab. Colombia. 



a-d. c? ad. ;e-7J. c? juv. ; Colombia (Bogota make). Salvin-Godman & 

 q, r. 2 ^^- ^^- Gould Colls. 



2. Heliangelus laticlavius. (Plate V. fig. 1.) 



Adult male. Very similar to that of H. clarissce, and with the 

 upper surface and tail coloured in the same way ; on the under 

 surface the white pectoral band is much wider, more than double 

 the width of that of the allied form ; there is no band of glittering 

 green feathers below the white, and the middle of the abdomen is 

 more distinctly buff ; the under tail-coverts are white, with wider 

 dusky shaft-stripes. 



Female unknown. 



Hab. Ecuador. 



