fil . HTLOCHARIS. 245 



and upper tail-coverts dark green, with a rufous tinge dispersed over 

 all those parts ; throat, hreast, and centre of ahdomen beautiful 

 metallic cffirulean blue ; flanks shining grass-green. Lower part of 

 abdomen covered by flufJy white feathers. Under tail-coverts 

 metallic green. Wings pui-plc. Tail bluish black. Maxilla black ; 

 mandible yellow (in life possibly red) for its entire length, save the 

 tip, which is black. Feet brownish black. Thighs buffy white. 

 Total length 3-25 inches, wing 2, tail 1-375, culmen 0-625. 



" Hah. Brazil ? " {ERiot, I. s. c.) 



A species unknown to me, but apparently closely allied to 

 E. hypocyanea. 



61. HYLOCHARIS. 



Type. 



Hylocharis, Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 546 H. sapphiriua. 



Range. Tropical South America from Guiana to South Brazil. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Chin and under tail-coverts chestnut sa])2Mrina, p. 245. 



b. Chin glittering blue. 



a'. Crown glittering blue ; under tail-coverts dull 



steel-bkie cyanea, p. 246. 



V . Crown bronzy green ; under tail-coverts white, 



with dark discs lactea, p. 247. 



1. Hylocharis sapphirina. 



Trochilus sapphiriuus, Gin. Syst. Nat. i. p. 496 ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 



p. 313 ; Vieill. N. Diet. dIHist. Nat. vii. p. 373 ; id. Enc. Meth. 



p. 570 ; Less. hid. Gin. Troch. p. xxxviii. 

 Trochilus fulvifrons, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. ii. p. 172 ; Vieill. N. 



Did. d'Sist. Nat. vii. p. 349 ; id. Enc. Meth. p. 554. 

 Le Saphir, Aud. Ois. Dor. i. p. 89, pi. 35. 

 Le jeune Saphir, And. Ois. Dor. i. p. 127, pi. 58. 

 Omismya sapphuina, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, pp. xxix, 172, 



pis. 55, 57. 

 Ti'ochilus latirostris, Wied. Beitr. iv. p. 64. 

 Hylocharis latirostris, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 10. 

 Hylocharis sapphirina, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 113 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 148 ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 74 ; Gould, Mon. Troch. v. pi. 342 



(May 1852); id. Litr. Troch. p. 171 ; Beich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 10; 



id. Troch. Enum. p. 7, pi. 767. ff. 4780-2 ; Burm. Syst. I'eb. ii, 



p. 346 ; 8cl. Cat. Am. B. p. 317 ; Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. 



p. 43 ; Muls. ^- Verr. Class. Troch. p. 38 ; Scl. c^ Salv. P. Z. S. 



1867, pp. 584, 753, 979, 1873, p. 289 ; Beinh. Vidensk. Medd. Nat. 



For. Kjiib. 1870, p. 113; Pek. Orn. Bras. p. 33 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. 



Ois.-Mouches, ii. p. 16, iv. p. 188 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. 



p. 207; Durnford, Ibis, 1877, p. 184; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 236; 



Eudes-Desl. A7m. 3Ius. Caen, i. p. 470 ; Salv, Cat. Strickl. Coll, 



p. 369 ; id. Ibis, 1885, p. 436 ; Scl. ^- Huds. Arg. Orn. ii. p. 8 ; 



Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. ii. p. 259. 

 Sapphii-onia sapphirina, Bp. Rev. Zool, 1854, p. 256. 



