364 TKOCHILI. 



the abdomen ; a large gular patch glittering violet-blue, bordered 

 below by a black band ; under tail-coverts glittering violet-blue ; 

 tail steel-blue, base of tbe central rectrices green ; tibial tufts 

 white ; bill black. Total length about 4 inches, wing 2-3 ; tail, 

 central rectrices 1-1, lateral 1-(J5 ; bill O'S. 



Female. tSimilar to the male on the upper surface, but rather 

 lighter green, and the rump less brilliant; beneath, the throat and 

 breast are pale chestnut, the abdomen white ; each of the feathers 

 of the whole under surface having a shining green discal spot, 

 which is small on the breast and middle of the abdomen ; the gular 

 spot is pale violet-blue. 



Hab. Venezuela and Colombia. 



a. cS ad. sk. Paramo of Merida, Venezuela Salvin-Qodnian Coll. 

 (A. Goering). 



h. S ad. sk. Merida {Goering). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



c-h. c? ad. ; i-l. Colombia (Bogota make). Salvin-Codman, 



S j uv. ; m-r. Gould, & 8clater 



2 ad. sk. Colls. 



s, t. (J ad. St. Purchased. 



M. $ ad. St. Bogota. Purchased. 



4. Eriocnemis smaragdinipectus. 



Eriocnemis sniaragdinipectus, Gould, Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. 1868, 

 i. p. 322 ; Muls. Ann. Sac. Lmn. Lyon, xxii. p. 217 ; Elliot, Ibis, 

 1872, p. 295; id. Sgn. Troch. p. 194 ; Tacz. .^ Bed. P. Z. S. 1885, 

 p. 105. 



Adult male. Verj- similar to that of E. vestita, but without the 

 black border beneath the violet-blue gular patch, the bright green 

 of the rest of the under surface extending to the lower margin of 

 that spot. 



JIa/>. Jlcuador. 



tt'f- 6 ad. : r/, /;. Quit(j, Ecuador. (lould Coil. 



2 ad. .sic, (Types of the species.) 



i,j. S ad.sk. San Lucas, Ecuador (Biukleg). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k. cS ad.;/. 2 San Rafael, Ecuador (Stolz- Sclater Coll. 



ad. sk. man)}), 



m. 2 ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Buckie;/). Salvin-Coclman Coll. 



5. Eriocnemis ventralis. (Plate IX. tig. 2.) 



Adult male. Upper surface shining grass-green, becoming bronzy 

 black on the hind neck and crown, and glittering olive-green on the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts; under surface with the throat bronzy 

 black, a glittering blue gular patch ; breast glittering green, shading 

 into glittering amethyst on the abdomen ; under tail- coverts glitter- 

 ing purplish blue ; tail steel-blue ; tibial tufts pure white : bill 

 black. Tot:il length about '&9 inches, wing 2-2 i) ; tail, central 

 rectrices 1-05, lateral 1-65; bill U-85. 



A species belonging to the same section of the genus as b\ vcslita. 



