324 XROCHILI. 



86. PH^OL^MA. ^yp^ 



Heliodoxa a. Phaiolairaa, Jicic/i. Atifz. d. Col p. 9 P. rubinoides. 



Range. Colombia and Ecuador. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Forehead and centre of the crown ghttering 

 green. 

 a'. Smaller; chin glittering green like the fore- 



liead rubinoides, p. 324. 



h'. Larger ; chin fawn-colour like the chest, with 



hardly any admixture of green _. cervini(/idaris,f .325. 



I. Forehead and whole crown as well as the chin 



shining green <equatorialis, p. 325. 



1. Phjeolsema rubinoides. 



Trochilus rubinoides, Bourc. Sf- Muls. Ann. Sc. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, 

 ix. p. 322 (184(); ; iid. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 316 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 140. 



Helioniaster rubinoides, Bp. Consp. i. p. 70. 



HeHodoxa a. Phaiolfema rubinoides, Reich. Aiifz. d. Col. p. 9; id. 

 Troch. Enutn. p. 6, pi. 743. ff. 4704-5. 



Clytolffima rubinoides, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 254 ; Muls. ^ Verr. 

 'Class. Troch. p. 59. 



Pha3oliBma rubinoides, Gould, Men. Troch. iv. pi. 268 (Sept. 1858) ; 

 id. Intr. Troch. p. 142 ; Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 30 ; Scl. 

 Cat. Am. B. p. 310 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, ii. p. 221, 

 pi. 49, iv. p. 207 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 213 ; Scl. Si' 

 Salv. P.Z.S. 1879, p. 529; Elliot, Si/n. Troch. p. 55; Emles-Desl. 

 Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 248; Berl. J.f. Orn. 1887, p. 320. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining grass-green ; upper tail-coverts 

 golden bronze ; centre of the crown, forehead, and chin glittering 

 green ; a large patch on the throat glittering rosy copper ; sides of 

 the throat pale shining green ; rest of the under surface pale chest- 

 nut, the flanks washed with green ; under tail-coverts pale green, 

 edged with pale chestnut ; central rectrices golden bronze, the 

 laterals paler, with the shafts buff; edge of the outermost primary 

 and under wing-coverts pale chestnut; bill black. Total length 

 about 4-5 inches, wing 2-75 ; tail, central rectrices 1-25, lateral 1'9 ; 

 bill 1. 



Female. Like the male, but without the gular spot. 



Huh. Colombia. 



a, b. (S ad. sk. Medellin, Colombia (T. Gould Coll. 



K. Salmon), 



c-i. cJad.;.;-/. d* .i"'^'- » Colombia (Bogota make). Salvin-Godman & 

 w, n. 2 ad. sk. ' Sclater Colls-. 



