370 TROCHILI. 



Adult male. Upper surface dark shining green, a little brighter 

 on the forehead ; upper tail-coverts bright purplish cojipery-grcen ; 

 throat glittering green, eopperj- on the sides, aud becoming fiery- 

 coppery on the abdomen; under tail-coverts bright green; tail 

 uniform purple-black, slightly tinged with green on the under 

 surface; bill black. Total length about 4-5 inches, wing 2-65; 

 tail, central rectrices I'l, lateral 1-7; bill 1-2. (Type in Derby 

 Museum, Liverpool.) 



Mr. Elliot describes a bird in his collection, supposed to be of 

 this species, as having " a small spot of very luminous light grass- 

 green on the forehead," aud the upper tail-coverts as " brilliant 

 metallic grass-green." These characters do not exist in the type 

 before me. Mr. Elliot also transfers the species from Eriocnemis to 

 Helianthea, which seems to me unnecessary. 



Hah. Colombia. 



16. Eriocnemis aurelise. 



Trochilus aurelise, Bourc. 8)- Mtils. Ann. Sc. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, ix. 



p. .315, pi. 10 (1846) ; iid. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 310. 

 Enopus aureli:e, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 80. 

 Eriocnemis aureliffi, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 9 ; id. Troch. Enum. p. 6, 



pi. 727. fF. 4660-1 ; Oould, Mon. Troch. iv. pi. 28.3 (Sept. 1855) ; 



■id. Intr. Troch. p. 146 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. .311 ; MuU. ^- Verr. 



Class. Troch. p. 65 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-3Iouches, iii. p. 51, iv. 



p. 216 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 218 ; Elliot, Si/ti. Troch. 



p. lf)0 ; Scl. ^f Salv. P. Z. S. 'l879, p. 630 ; Berl. J.f. Orn. 1887, 



p. 522. 

 Eriocnemys aurelia, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 252. 

 Hylocharis aurelise, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 152. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining grass-green, bronzy on the 

 occiput and upper tail-coverts ; under surface, including the under 

 tail-coverts, dark shining grass-green, darker on the throat ; tibial 

 tufts partly white, partly pale chestnut ; tail steel-blue. Total 

 length about 4 inches, wing 2-5 ; tail, central rectrices 1-45, lateral 

 1-7 : bill 0-85. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Hah. Colombia. 



a-g. Ad.sk. Medellin, Colombia {T. K. Sal- Salvin-Godman & 



mon). Gould Colls. 



h-r. Ad. sk. Colombia (Bogota make). Salvin-Godman & 



Gould Colls. 



17. Eriocnemis russata. 



Eriocnemis russata, Gould, P. Z. 8. 1871, p. 505; Muls. Ann. Sue. 

 Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 218. 



Adidt male. Very similar to that of E. aurelice, but much darker, 

 the middle of the back and crown more bronzy and the entire under 

 surface bronzy green ; the bill longer. 



Bah. Ecuador. 



