55. AMAZILIA. 213 



?"> >■"• c? ad. sk. Santa Rita, Ecuador {Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



«". t". Juv. sk. Monji, Ecuador {Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



u . 5 ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador {Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



v"-x". (S ad. sk. Citado, Ecuador {Buckley). Gould Coll. 



17. Amazilia viridiventris. 



Trochilus viridigaster, Bourc. Ann. Sc. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, vi. p. 42 



(1843) ; id. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 103. 

 Ilylocliaris viridigaster. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 11.5 ; Bj}. Consp. Av. i. 



p. 74. 

 Chlorestes y. Saucerottia viridiventris, Belch. Atifz. d. Col. p. 8. 

 Saucerottia viridigaster, Bp. Rev. Zool. 18.54, p. 255. 

 Clilorestes viridiventris, Reich. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pi. 699. ff. 



4564-5. 

 Amazilia viridigaster, Gould, Mon. Troch. v. pi. 314 (Sept. 1860). 

 Hemitlivlaca viridiventris, Cab. ^ Heine, Miis. Hein. iii. p. 38. 

 Pjrrhophfena viridigaster, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 159. 

 Amazilia viridiventris, Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 315 ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 



p. 378 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 220. 

 Eratina viridiventris, Heine, J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 191. 

 Ariana viridigaster, Muls. |- Verr. Class. Troch. p. 36 ; Mids. Hist. 



Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p, 320, iv. p. 185 ; id. Ann. Sac. Linn. Lyon, 



xxii. p. 207. 

 Polytmus viridigaster. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 132. 

 Saucerottia viridigaster, Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 419. 

 Pyrrhoplisena viridiventris, Berl. J.f. Orn. 1887, p. 332. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining bronzy green, browner on the 

 rump, and shading into purple on the upper tail-coverts ; under 

 surface glittering grass-green, shading into greyish brown on the 

 abdomen ; under tail-coverts brown or greyish rufous with lighter 

 edges ; tail dark shining purple-violet : maxilla black ; mandible 

 flesh-colour, the tip black. Total length about 3"5 inches, wing 2*1, 

 tail 1-2, bill 0-8. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



The colour of the tail seems to vary much in this bird, as in 

 A. heryllina, from violet to reddish bronze. All occiu' in liogota 

 skins, and I cannot localize the various forms. 



Hah. Colombia and Venezuela. 



«-A. Ad. sk. Colombia (Bogota make). Gould [type], Salvin- 



Godman, & 

 Sdater Colls. 



i. S ad. sk. Tachiro, Venezuela (Goeriny). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



18. Amazilia iodura. 



Trochilus iodurns, Saucerotte, 3IS. {Jide Cab.). 



Chlorestes y. Saucerottia iodura, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 8 ; id. Troch. 



Enum. p. 4, pi. 698. ff. 4560-1. 

 Heniithylaca iodura, Cab. S)- Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 39. 

 Pyrrhophajna iodura, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 159; Muh. Hist. Nat. 



