74. FROCHKOA. 301 



blue ; abdomen green, the feathers with dusky edges ; under tail- 

 coverts dusky green with pale edges ; edge of the outermost primary 

 whitish ; secondaries beneath at the base and some of the wing- 

 coverts chestnut ; tail dark bronzy green, the two outer feathers on 

 either side tipped with white ; bill black. Total length about S'-l 

 inches, wing 2-8 ; tail, central rectrices 1'35, lateral 1*8, bill 

 (chord) 1-4. 



Female. Upper surface shining grass-green ; under surface greyish 

 white ; abdomen chestnut ; each feather of the throat and flanks 

 with a green discal spot ; wings beneath] marked with chestnut like 

 the male ; lateral rectrices tipped with white. 



Hah. Venezuela. 



a. (5 ad. sk. Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. Sclater Coll. 



b. (S ad. sk. San Cristobal, Venezuela. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 c-e. cJ ad, sk. ' Venezuela. Salviu-Godman, 



Gould, & Sclater 

 Colls. 



74. UROCHROA. 



Type. 



Urochroa, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. pi. 57 (Sept. 1856) . . U. bougueri. 

 Range. Ecuador. 



1. Urochroa bougueri. 



Trochilus bougueri, Bourc. Com^yt. Rend, xsxii. p. 186. 



Coeligeua y. CoeUgena bougueri, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 7. 



Coeligena bougueri, Bp. Reo. Zool. 1854, p. 252. 



Urochroa bougueri, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. pi. 57 (Sept. 1856) ; id. 



Inti: Troch. p. 56 ; id. P. Z. S. 1800, p. 803 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, 



p. 95 ; Mztls, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches,\. p. 192, iv. p. 159 ; id. Ann. 



Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 20.3 ; Elliot, St/n. Troch. p. 62 ; Eudes- 



Desl. A?in. Miis. Caen, i. p. 219. 

 Uroclu'oa leucura, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N, Y. viii. p. 43. 

 Lampornis bougheri, Muls. ^ Verr. Class. Troch. p. 24. 



Adult male. Upper surface dark shining grass-green ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts golden bronze ; throat glittering blue, shading 

 into green at the sides and also on the lower chest ; abdomen grey ; 

 flanks tinged with green ; under tail-coverts bronze, the shorter ones 

 edged with white ; middle rectrices greenish broiize, the next three 

 pairs on either side white, narrowly edged outwardly with black and 

 also inwardly for their distal half with a wider margin of the same 

 colour, but leaving the tip itself white ; outermost rectrix on either 

 side also white, but with a wider black border on each side extend- 

 ing to the tip of the feather; under wing-coverts green.- bill black; 

 feet yellow. Total length 5-3 inches, wing 2-95 ; tail, central rec- 

 trices 1-75, lateral 1'7 ; bill Vo. 



Young male. More bronze over the whole upper surface ; a large 

 chestnut patch on either side of the gape : central rectrices darker, 

 almost steel-blue ; next three on either side with wider black border, 

 the outermost pair being steel-blue-black. 



