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rectrices instead of being buff are pure white tipped with bronzy 

 green. 



Adult fetnale. Abdomen white ; throat tinged with buff and 

 spotted (as are also the flanks and under tail-coverts) with green ; 

 the dark tips to the lateral rectrices are wider than in the male. 



Young males have the feathers of both the upper and under sur- 

 faces edged with buff ; the feathers of the throat are subsequently 

 white at the base with green spots at the tip ; they afterwards 

 become darker at the base and the green spots larger, so that in the 

 adult the throat is unbroken glittering green. 



There is some variation in the colour and extent of the dark tips 

 to the white lateral rectrices. In most specimens these tips are dark 

 bronzy green and even blackish ; in others thej'^ are of the same 

 green as the extremities of the under tail-coverts. 



Birds with the latter character have been called Trovhilus scmlce 

 by Bourfier and Dclattre — a name adopted by several writers, in- 

 cluding Gould, but rejected by Elliot. I have not been able to trace 

 these birds to any special locality. 



Hah. Venezuela and Xorthern Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. 



a. cJ ad. sk. 

 h. (S ad. sk. 



c. cJjuv. sk. 



(1. J .id.; e- ? 



ad. sk. 

 f. 6 ad. ; ff. 2 



ad. sk. 

 h. S ad. ; i. $ 



ad. sk. 

 ;■-/. S ad. ; m- o. 



2 ad. sk. 

 p. (5 ad. sk. 

 fj. (j ad. sk. 



r. S ad. ; s. J 

 ad. sk. 



Merida, Venezuela {Goering). 



San Jose, Sierra Nevada de Sta. 

 Marta, Colombia, Mar. {F. 

 Sbnons). 



Sta. Elena, Cauca Valley, Co- 

 lombia ( T. K. Salmon ). 



Jima, Ecuador {Buckley). 



Ecuador (Fraser). 



I'"cuador {Buckleij). 



Ecuador. 



Peru ( Warszew/ez). 

 Cachupata, Peru, Nov. {H. 



Whitehj). 

 Peru ? 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sclatev Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Gdll. 



Gould Coll. 



Gould Goll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



89. FLORISUGA. 



Type. 



Florisuga, Bp. Covfp. Av. i. p. 78 E. mellivoia. 



Melanotrochilus, Fudes-Ded. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. '2-2-i 



(.1880) E. fiisca. 



Ilange. Southern Mexico lo the Amazons Valley and Eastern 

 Brazil. 



Key to the Species, 



a. Head and neck blue; base of the hind neck and 



abdomen white /iielliroru, ]i. .3i'9. 



b. Head, neck, and abdc men black fusca, p. 881. 



