83. HELIODOXA. 317 



green on the abdomen ; under tail-coverts dark green ; a glittering 

 rosy-coppery spot on the middle of the throat ; tail greenish black ; 

 bill black. Total length 5'5 inches, wing 3 ; tail, central rectrices 

 0-9, lateral 2-5 ; biU 1-4. 



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

 white, on the abdomen pale buff ; each feather of the sides of the 

 neck and breast with a central green spot, these spots on the abdo- 

 men being of a more golden hue. 



Youmj males are dull green on the upper surface, rather brighter 

 beneath, with a more golden tint on the abdomen ; the chin at first 

 is chestnut, the middle of the throat black. 



Mab. Ecuador, 



a. cj ad. sk. Near Pasto, Ecuador (Leh- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



mann). 

 6,€. c? ad.; d. cj Intac, Ecuador {Buckley). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



juv.; ej. 2 



ad. sk. 

 g-n. <S ad.; o,p. Environs of Quito, Ecuador Gould Coll. 



S juv. ; q-s. (Jameson). (Probably types of the species.) 



$ ad. sk. 

 i,u (^ ad. ; v-y. Ecuador. Salvin-Godman & 



$ ad. sk. ■ Gould CoUs. 



83. HELIODOXA. 



Type. 



Ileliodoxa, GomM, P. Z. «. 1849, p. 95 H.jacula. 



Leadbeatera, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 70 H. leadbeateri. 



Aspasta, Heine, J.f. Orn. 1863, p. 179 H. leadbeateri. 



Hypolia, Muls. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 212 



^ (1875) ._. H. leadbeateri. 



Xanthogenyx, d' Hamonville, Bicll. Soc. Zool. Fr. viii. 



p. 77 (188.3) H. xanthogonys. 



Range. Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, to Bolivia, Venezuela, and 

 Guiana. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Middle of the crown glittering blue ; throat glit- 



tering green ; without a gular spot leadbeateri, p. 317. 



b. Middle of the crown glittering green ; throat glit- 



tering green ; with a blue gular spot, 

 a' . Mandible wholly black. 



a" . Entire crown glittering green jacula, p. 319. 



b". Middle of the crown glittering green ; sides 



black jamesoni, p. 320. 



b'. Mandible, except the tip, yellow xanthogonys, p. 321. 



1, Heliodoxa leadbeateri. 



Trochilus leadbeateri, Bourc. 6)- Muls. Ann. Sc. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, 

 vi. p. 43 (1843) ; iid. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 102 ; Gray, Haml-l. B. i. 

 p. 1.S7. 



Trochilus otero, Tsch. Arch. f. Nature/. 1844, i. p. 298 ; id. Faun. Per 

 p. 249, pi. 23. f. 2. 



