42. HELIANGELUS. 163 



Adult male. Upper surface shining golden green ; head, viewed 

 from in front, black ; frontal spot glittering silvery green ; throat 

 glittering rosy red, a little darker and not quite so silky as in H. 

 clarissce ; pectoral band white ; abdomen shining green, the middle 

 mingled with pale buff ; under tail-coverts bronzy green, with narrow 

 dusky-white edges ; central rectrices like the back, lateral dark 

 purple-black ; bill black. Total length about 4-1 inches, wing 2-4 ; 

 tail, central rectrices 1-5, lateral 1"65 ; bill 0"75. 



Female. Feathers of the throat dusky at the base, with a sub- 

 terminal rufous bar which widens towards the edge on each side, 

 and with a terminal dark bronzy-green spot ; the forehead is only 

 slightly greener than the rest of the crown, and the lateral rectrices 

 have a dusky-white tip. 



Hah. Venezuela. 



7. Heliangelus mavors. 



Heliangelus mavors, Gould, P. Z. S. 1848, p. 12 ; id. Mon. Troch. iv. 



pi. 246 (May 1855) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 133; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 76; 



id. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 252 ; Muh. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iii. 



p. 92 ; Flliot, Spi. Troch. p. 91. 

 Mellisuga mavors, G)-ay, Gen. B. i. p. 112. 

 Trochilus mavors, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 12; id. Troch. Fman.-p. 10, 



pi. 827. ff. 4945-47 ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 140. 

 Anactoria mavors, Muls. ^ Verr. Class. Troch. p. 69. 

 Peratus mavors, Muls. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 219. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining bronzy green, more golden on 

 the upper tail-coverts and central rectrices ; head, viewed from in 

 front, black ; frontal spot glittering fiery orange-red ; throat glit- 

 tering orange-red, not quite so lustrous as the frontal spot ; a wide 

 pectoral band and middle of the abdomen cinnamon-buff ; flanks 

 washed with green ; under tail-coverts bronze, edged with dusky 

 white ; lateral rectrices bronzy, slightly tipped with dull white ; bill 

 black. Total length about 4-2 inches, wing 2-5 ; tail, central rec- 

 trices 1-5, lateral 1-65; bill OS. 



Female. The throat is brownish black, each feather edged with 

 rufous. 



Hab. Colombia. 



a-l c? ad. sk. N. Colombia {Funck 4" Schlim). Salvin-Godman & 



Gould Colls. 

 wt. (5 ad. sk. Colombia. Sclater Coll. 



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