268 TROCHIU. 



€*■. Rufescent beneath. 



c\ Larger eurynome, p. 276. 



d'\ Smaller sqiialidus, p. 276. 



e". Kectrices next the central pair very long. 



c'". Greyish white beneath augusti, p. 277. 



d'". Rufescent beneath. 



/^ Larger pretrii, p. 277. 



()^. Smaller nattereri, p. 278. 



b. Bill nearly straight. 



c'. Under surface pale buff bourcieri, p. 278. 



d'. Under surface rufous philippii, p. 279. 



1. Phaethornis guyi. 



Trochilus guyi, Less. Hist. Xat. Troch. p. 119, pi. 44. 



Phaethornis guv-i, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 67 ; Ooidd, Mon. Troch. i. 



pi. 26 (Oct. 1852) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 44 ; Reich. Aufz. d. Col. 



p. 14 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 285 ; E. C. Taylor, This, 186.3, p, 90 ; 



Mills. 4- Verr. Class. Troch. p. 17 ; Grat/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 121 ; Scl. 



Sf Sah. P. Z. S. 1868, ]). 168, 1876, p. 16 ; Salv. ^ Elliot, Ibis, 1873, 



p. 12 ; Whitely, Ibis, 1873, p. 189 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, 



1. p. 68, iv. p. 138 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 200 ; 



Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 13 ; Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 97 ; 



Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 359 ; Berl. J.f. Orn. 1887, p. 314. 

 Guyornis typus, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 249. 

 Toxoteuches guyi. Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 11 (pt.j ; Heine, 



J.f. Orn. 1863, p. 177. 

 PhiBtornis guy, Leot. Ois. Trin. p. 129. 



Adult male. Upper surface dark shining green, upper tail-coverts 

 edged with white and with a subtermiual dark band ; ear-coverts 

 black ; under surface dark grey, sides of the neck and flanks tinged 

 with dark green ; throat tinged with ferruginous ; tail black, the 

 tips of the elongated central feathers white, proximal half of all the 

 rectrices dark shining green like the back : maxilla black ; the man- 

 dible (except the dark tip) red. Total length about 6 inches, wing 

 2-4; tail 2-3, lateral feathers 1-3; biU 1-8. 



Younger males have ferruginous postocular and malar stripes, 

 paler greyer under surface, and a central gular stripe ; the central 

 elongated rectrices are longer and the lateral rectrices edged with 

 white. 



Female. Like the young male. 



Hah. Venezuela and Trinidad. 



a, b. S ad. ; c, d. 2 Trinidad. Goidd & Sclater Colls. 



ad. ; e. Juv. sk. 

 /. (J sk. Caripe, Venezuela, Jan. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{A. Goeriny).] 



2. Phaethornis emiliae. 



Trochilus emiliae, Bourc. ^- Muls. Ann. Sc. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, ix. 



p. 317 (1846). 

 Phaethornis emiliae, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 67; id. Rev. Zool. 1864, 



