228 TROciiii.i. 



Trodi. V. pi. ;12.3 (Sept. 18r,6); Scl Cat. Am. 5. p. 815 ; Wyatt, 



Ibis, 1871, p. 378 ; Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 430. ^ 

 Chlorestes cyanifrons, Reich. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pi. 701. ff. 4571-2. 

 Hemithylaca cyauifrons, Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 39 ; Oould, 



Intr. Troch. p. 163. 

 Eratopis cyanifrons, Heine, J.f. Orn. 1863, p. 191. 

 Ariaiia cyanifrons, Muls. Sf Verr. Class. Troch. p. 36 ; Muls. Hist. 



Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 332, iv. p. 185 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 



xxii. p. 207. 

 Polytmus cyanifrons, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 131. 

 Amazilia cvanifrons, Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 225 ; Berl. J. f. Orn. 



1884, p. 312. 

 Pyrrophaena cyanifrons, Bcrl. J.f. Orn. 1887, p. 332. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining bronzy green, shading into 

 dusky on the rump and shorter tail-coverts, and then into steel-blue 

 on the longer coverts ; crown shining dark blue ; under surface 

 glittering grass-green ; under tail-coverts dusky, washed with a 

 shade of blue and edged with whitish ; tail steel-blue : maxilla 

 black : mandible flesh-colour, the tip black. Total length about 3"7 

 inches, wing 2-2, tail 1-3, bill 7'05. 



Female. kSimilar to the male, but with the' crown duller blue and 

 the under surface duller green. 



Hab. Colombia. 



a, b. 2 ^^- sk. Herradura, Colombia ( Wyatt). Salvin-Godmaii Coll. 

 c~l. (S &d. • ni-p. Colombia (Bogota make). Salvin-Godnian & 



2 ad. sk. Gould Colls. 



56. FLORICOLA. 



Type. 



Floricola, Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 82 (1879) F. longirostris. 



Ileliomaster, auct., nee Bp. 

 Heliomastes, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 251. 



Ranr/e. Southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, 

 Trinidad, Amazons Valley, Guiana. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Crown glittering bluish green. 



«'. Under tail-coverts brownish black tipped with 



white lonyirostris, p. 229. 



b' . Under tail-coverts greyish white albicrissa, p. 231. 



h. Crown bronzy green like the back. 



c. Glittering fiery spot of the throat wide, chin 



narrowly black constanti, p, 231. 



d' . Glittering fiery spot of the throat narrow, 



chin broadly black leocardice, p. 232. 



