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71. APHANTOCHROA. 



Type. 



Apbantocliroa, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. pi. 54 (Oct. 



1854) A. cirrocliloris. 



Agapeta, Heine, J.f. Orn. 186.3, p. 178 A. gularis. 



AphantocLroa (Placopliorus), Muls. Ann, Soc. Linn, 



Lyon, xxii. p. 202 (187-5) A. gularis. 



Range. Ecuador to Bolivia, Amazons Valley, and Eastern Brazil. 



Key to the Species. 



a. No glittering spot on the throat ; under tail- 

 coverts dark edged with white. 

 «'. Under surface dark grey washed with green . cirrocliloris, p. 297. 

 b' . Under surface white, each feather with a 



shining green discal spot hyposticta, p. 298. 



h. A guttering metallic spot on the middle of the 



throat ; under tail-coverts white gularis, p. 298. 



1. Aphantochroa cirrocMoris. 



Trochilus cirrochloris, Vieill. N. Diet. cVIIist. N. xxiii. p. 430 ; id. 



Enc. Meth. p. 560. 

 Trochilus campylostylua, Licht. Verz. Bouhl. p. 14; Burm. Syst, 



Ueb. ii. p. 329. 

 Ornisniya simplex, Less. Hist, Nat. Ois.-Mouches, pp. xliii, 119, 



pi. 33 ; id. Supi)l. p. Ill, pi. 6. 

 Trochilus simplex. Less. Lnd. Gen. Troch, p. vi. 

 Campylopterus cirrochloris, Bp. Consp. i. p. 71 ; Muls. ^- Verr. Class. 



Troch. p. 22. 

 Aphantochroa cirrochloris, Goidd, Mon. Troch. ii. pi. 54 (Oct. 1853) ; 



/(/. Lntr. Troch. p. 55 ; Lteich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 15 ; Bp. Rev. Zool. 



1854, p. 250 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 288 ; F. Heine, J. f. Orn. 186.3, 



p. 178 ; Reinh. Vidensk. Medd. Nat. For. Kjob. 1870, p. 102 ; 



Peh. Orn. Bras. p. 28 ; Berl. J. f. Orn. 1873, p. 274, 1887, p. .334; 



31uls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches,'l-p. 1.39, iv. p. 150; id. Ann. Soc. 



Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 202 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 27 ; Fudes-Desl. 



Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 163; Forbes, Ibis, 1881, p. 348; Salv. Cat. 



Strickl. Coll. p. 360, 

 Campylopterus campylostylus, Burm. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 329. 

 Polytmus cirrochloris. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 125. 



Adult male. Upper surface dark green ; wings purple-black ; 

 tail with the median rectrices green, darker at the tip, the lateral 

 rectrices dark purplish bronze-green ; under surface dark grey ; 

 throat and flanks washed with green ; under tail-coverts dark 

 grey edged with dull white ; bill black. Total length about 4*7 

 inches, wing 2-75, tail 1-6, bill 1. 



Female. Like the male. 



Hah. Eastern Brazil. 



a, S ad. sk. Macuca, Pernanibuco, Brazil Sclater CoU. 



( W. A. Forbes). 



b. Ad. sk. Santa F^, Minas Geraes, Brazil Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(//. Rogers). 



