37G TKUCUILI. 



pure white ; tail steel-blue, central rectrices shining green and 

 spatules tipped with green, outer web of the outermost rectrix 

 grejish: bill black. Total length about 5 inches, wing 1'6 ; tail, 

 central rectrices U'7, lateral 2"1) ; bill O'o. 



Female. Upper surtace a little lighter than that of the male ; 

 under surface white, the leathers of the sides of the neck and the 

 tlunks each with a shining green discal spot; under tail-coverts 

 pale rufous ; tibial tut'ts w'hite ; central rectrices green, the rest 

 steel-blue, grey at the base and tipped with green on the upper 

 side, the outermost pair tii^ped with white. Central rectrices 

 U-7 inch, lateral 1"3. 



This bird is usually called S. undcrwoodi, Less., but the propriety 

 of so doing is open to doubt. Lesson's figure shows a white band 

 on the rump, no such character being borne by any Upathura. 



In Gould's collection I find a female specimen marked " *S'. cis- 

 sitira, Bogota"' (seep. 377). It has the left lateral rectrix developed 

 somewhat like that of the type of S. cissiura, but is not quite eo 

 long. The tibial tufts are white, and I have no doubt it is an 

 androgynous female of 6'. undenvoodi. 



Bab. Venezuela and Colombia. 



a. (5 ad. sk. Caracas, Venezuela (Salle). Gould Coll. 



b. 5 ad. sk. Venezuela. E. Dyson [C.]. 



c. 2 fl'd. sk. Venezuela. Purchased. 



d. (S ad. sk. Venezuela {Goeriny). Salvin-Godman ('oil. 



e. S juv. sk. Venezuela. Gould Coll. 



/->%. c? ad. ; «. cJ Medelliu, Colombia (7'. K. Salvin-Godman & 



juv.; /, k. 2 Salmon). Gould Colls. 



ad. yk. ' 



L-r. cJ ad. ; s-iu. Columbia (Bugota make). Salvin-Godman & 



cJ juv. ; x-b'. Goidd Coll*. 



$ ad. sk. 



v', d'. (^ ad. St. [Venezuela.] Purchased. 



2. Spathura melananthera. 



Trochilus (Spathura) melananthera, Ja?-d. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. Ill, 



pi. 20. 

 Discura melananthera, Up. Consp. Av, i. p. 70 ; id. Rev. Zool. 1854, 



p. 256. 

 Stcganura melananthera, Reich. Avfz. d. Col. p. 8 ; id. Troch. Eman. 



p. 5, pi. 710. &. 4608-y ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. 257 ; 



id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 224 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 142; 



Berl. ^- Tacz. P. Z. 8. 1884, p. 305. 

 Spathura melananthera, Gould, Mon. Troch. iii. pi. 163 (Sept. 1859); 



id. Intr. Troch. p. 100 ; id. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 803 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1860, p. 95 ; id. fed. Am. B. p. 300 ; Muls. | Verr. Class. Troch. 



p. 61. 

 Steganurus melanantherus, Cab. 4" Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 66. 

 Trocliilus melanantherus, Gray, Uand-l. B. i. p. 144. 



Adult male. Very similar to that of S. vnderivoodi, but with the 

 chin and the region under the eye black, and the spatxdes of the 



