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the crissiim passing into glittering green ; under tail-coverts chest- 

 nut ; tail dark chestnut, the central rectrices tipped with hronze- 

 greon, the rest more narrowly with dark purple ; bill black. Total 

 length 5-4 inches, wing 2-8, tail 1-9, bill 1-2. 



Adult feniale. Above shining green, brighter on the rump and 

 central rectrices ; under surface grey ; throat greenish blue, with a 

 whitish malar stripe on either side ; flanks tinged with green ; under 

 tail-coverts mixed with chestnut. 



Youncf male. Cinnamon malar stripes ; under surface blackish 

 brown, the feathers edged with chestnut. 



Hah. Colombia and Yenezuela. 



a-f. S ad. ; g. (J Colombia (Bogota make). Salvin-Godman & 

 juv. ; h~A: $ ad. sk, Goukl Colls. 



/. <S ad. sk. Merida, Venezuela. Sclater Coll. 



7n. cS ad. sk. Venezuela (Goering). Salvin-CTodmau Coll. 



n. (S ad. sk. Caracas, Venezuela. E. Dyson [C.]. 



0, p. $ ad. sk. Valley of Aragua, Venezuela. E. Dyson [C.j. 



q. S ad. St. [Venezuela.] E. Dyson [C.]. 



r. (S ad. st. Purchased. 



6. Campylopterus villavicencio. 



Trochilus villavicencio, Bourc. Compt. Rend, xxxii. p. 187 ; id. Rev, 



Zool. 1851, p. 97. 

 Selasphorus y. Heliomastes villavicencio, Reich. Axifz. d. Col, p. 13. 

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

 Campylopterus villavicencio, Goidd, Mon. Troch. ii. pi. 42 (May 



1859) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 43; Muls. ^- Ven: Class. Troch. p. 22"; 



Mids, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 129; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 



xxii. p. 202 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 27 ; Eudes-Desl. An?i, Mus. 



Caen, i. p. 150. 

 Campylopterus splendens, Laicr. Ann, Lye. N. Y, vi. p. 262 ; Gould, 



Intr. Troch. p. 53. 

 Polytmus splendens, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 124. 



Adult male. Upper surface dark green, darker on the nape, crown 

 glittering golden-green ; sides of the head and chin black ; chest 

 rich dark glittering blue ; abdomen dark grey, flanks and under 

 tail-coverts dark green ; tail dark green, lateral rectrices dark steel- 

 blue ; biU black. Total length about 5*4 inches, wing 2-8, tail 2, 

 bill 1-3. 



Adtdt female. Above like the male, but the colours a little duller : 

 beneath grey, the lateral rectrices tipped with greyish. 



Hab. Ecuador. 



ff, h. c? ad. sk. Ecuador (ex G. N. Lawrence). Sahiu-Godmau & 



Gould Colls. 

 (Typical of C. splendens.) 

 c. cJ ad. ; d. 9 ad. Ecuador. balvin-Godnian & 



sk. Gould Colls. 



e. (S ad. sk. Quito, Ecuador. Gould CoU. 



f,ff. cjad.;^, ?'. 2 Sarayacu, Ecuador (5McA;/ey). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 ad. sk. 



