246 TKOCHILI. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining green, -with a tingo of Wue 

 on the middle of the back ; upper tail-coverts rich bronze ; chin and 

 under tail-coverts chestnut ; throat and breast glittering sapphire- 

 blue ; abdomen and ilanks dark shining green ; tail rich bronze ; bill 

 tlesh-colour, the tip black. Total length about 3'8 inches, wing 

 2-05, tail 1-2, biU 0-8. 



Female. Upper surface shining golden green ; iipper tail-coverts 

 and. tail rich bronze : under surface greyish -white ; chin rufous ; 

 discs of the throat-feathers shining blue; flanks shining green ; 

 under tail-coverts greyish white : maxilla black ; mandible flesh- 

 colour, the tip black. 



Hah. Guiana, Amazonia, and South-eastern Brazil. 



2. Hylocharis cyanea. 



Le SapMr, And. Ois. Dor. i. p. 126, pi. 57. 



Trochilus cyanus, Vieill. N. Diet. cVHist. N. xxiii. p. 426 ; id. Enc. 



Meih. p. 558 ; Less. Ind. Gen. Troch. p. xl. 

 Ornismya cyanea. Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Moitches, pp. xxxi, 199, pi. 71 ; 



id. Suppl. Ois.-MouChes, p. 143, pi. 23. 

 Ornismya bicolor. Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, pp. xxix, 161, 



pis. 49, 50. 

 TrocHlus bicolor, iCc's. Ind. Gen. Troch. p. xxxviii. 

 Hylocharis cvanea. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 113 ; Reich. Aufz. d. Col. 



p. 10; id. 'Troch. Eniim. p. 7, pi. 768. If. 4777-9 ; Gould, Mon. 



Troch. V. pi. 344 (May 1852) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 171 ; Cab. ^- Heine, 



Mus. Hem. iil -p. 44; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 317; Mtds. ^- Verr. 



Class. Troch. p. 38 ; Scl. 8,-Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 195, 1867, p. 753, 



1873, p. 259, 1879, p. 631; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 33; Muls. Hist. 



Nat.- Ois.-Mouches, ii. p. 19, iv. p. 188 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 



xxii. p. 207 ; Elliot, Ibis, 1877, p. 138 ; id. Syn. Troch. p. 237 ; 



Eudes-Besl. Ami, Mm. Caen, i, p. 474 ; Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. 



H. ii. p. 259. 

 Thaumatias cyaueiis, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 78. 



