47. PHLOGOPHILUS. 173 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but with the forehead and 

 crowu dark bronzy green. 



Young male. Similar to the female, but with the tips to the 

 lateral rectrices wider and whiter, the rest of those feathers greener. 



Hah. Northern Colombia. 



a. (S ad. sk. San Antonio, Sierra Nevada de Goidd Cull. 



Santa Marta, Colombia {Lin- (Type of the species.) 

 den). 



b. S juv. sk. (A skin of Bogota make.) CJould Coll. 



c. <5 ad. sk. ? Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. 2 ad. sk. San Jos(5, Sierra Nevada de Santa Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Marta, March {F. Simons). 



47. PHLOGOPHILUS. _ 



Type. 



Phlogopbilus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 310 P. hemileuciirus. 



Range. Andes of Eastern Ecuador. 



A genus of doubtful affinity. Gould, unable to indicate its 

 position, placed it at the end of the Trochilidce, but suggested, 

 without stating his reasons, that it might be allied to Adelomyia. 

 This view I am inclined to think justified. Mr. Elliot places it 

 between Augastes and Sc?iistes, and went so far as to state his 

 belief that it might turn out to be inseparable from the former, and 

 that P. hemileucurus might even prove to be only the female of one 

 of the species of Augastes I 



1. Phlogopbilus hemileucurus. 



Phlogophilus hemileucurus, (?(y(</c/, F. Z. S. 1860, p. 310; id. Man. 

 Trock V. pi. 360 (Sept. 1861 ) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 181 ; Elliot, 

 Syn. Troch. p. 172 ; Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 325. 



Leucolia hemileucura, Muls. Sf Terr. Class. Troch. p. 31. 



Elvira hemileucura, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 264 ; id. 

 Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 205. 



Adult male ? Upper surface dark shining grass-green ; under 

 surface white, the feathers of the throat and flanks with green 

 discs ; pectoral band, centre of the abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 white ; central rectrices green tinged with bronze ; lateral white 

 with a wide central band, and the edges of the outer webs of the 

 tips steel-blue-black : bill black ; feet yellow. Total length about 

 3"5 inches, wing 1*9 ; tail, central rectrices 1'3, lateral 0*9 ; bill 0-8. 



Adult female ? Like the male, but with the tips of the lateral 

 rectrices wholly white. 



I have now seen a considerable number of specimens of this 

 species, all closely resembling one another. Some examples have a 

 dark outer edging to the white tip to the lateral rectrices. These I 

 take to be males, and those without this edging to be females, I 

 have no dissected specimens before me, so that this supposition as to 



