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TKOCUILI. 



1. Hylonympha macrocerca. 



Hylonvmpha macrocerca, Gould, Ann. 8^ Mac/. N. H. 1873, xii. 

 p. 4!?9; id. Mon. Troch.,_ Suppl. pi. 27 (Aug. 1880); Mtds. Hist. 

 Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. .57 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 218; 

 Elliut, Syn. Troch. p. 07 ; JEudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 299. 



AduU male. Upper surface dark shining green, nearly black 

 when viewed from in front, greener when viewed fi'om behind ; 

 crown black ; forehead and central anterior crown, terminating 

 posteriorly in a point beyond a line drawn between the eyes, glitter- 

 ing violet-blue ; under surface as far as the lower breast glittering 

 grass-green ; abdomen and under tail-coverts black, flanks washed 

 with green ; tail blue-black : bill black ; feet dark hazel. Total 

 length about 8'5 inches, wing 2*8 ; tail, outermost rectrix on either 

 side 5-4, next pair 2-3, central pair 0-9 ; bill 1-1. 



Adult female. Upper surface dark shining grass-green ; under 

 surface white, each feather with a shining green discal spot ; middle 

 of the breast and upper abdomen pure white ; lower abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts chestnut ; tail blue-black, outermost rectrix with 

 the shaft, half the inner web, and three-fourths of the outer web 

 cinnamon, a dull white spot towards the end of the outer web and 

 extending to the inner web just at the tip of the feather ; next 

 rectrix with the basal half of the shaft and the webs adjoining 

 cinnamon. Length of the outermost rectrix 2-1 inches, central 

 pair I'l. 



Hab. Uncertain ; said to be the Amazons Valley near the middle. 



a. J ad. sk. " N. Brazil." Gould Coll. _ (Type 



of the species.) 

 b-h. c? ad. ; i,j. "N.Brazil." Salvin-Godman & 



2 ad. sk. Gould Colls. 



88. LAFRESNAYA. 



Lafresnaya, B/>. Compt. Rend. xxx. p. otiO (1850) . . L. navicaudata. 



Entima, Cub. &,- Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 51 L. gayi. 



Euclosia, Muls. Sf Verr. Class. Troch. p. 63 (1865). . L. Bavicaudata. 



Range. Venezuela and Colombia to Peru. 



The outermost primary in tliis genus is narrow, somewhat as in 

 Aglcpactis. 



Key to the Species. 



n. Lateral rectrices buff, tipped with bronzy brown, flavicaudata, p. 326. 

 h. Lateral rectrices pure white, tip]ied with bronzy 



green f/cy*, P- 327. 



1. Lafresnaya flavicaudata. 



Trochilus lafresnayi. Boiss. Bei: Zool. 1840, p. 8. 

 Trochilus flavicaudatn.-, Frnser, P Z. S. ]840, p. 18. 

 Ornysmia lafresnayi. Lodd. P. Z. S. li*43, p. 122. 



