121. CHJ.TOCERCUS. 415 



Adult male. Upper surface shining bronzy green ; throat glit^ 

 tering rosy red ; breast white; abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 shining green ; four median rectrices like the back, the two next on 

 either side purple-black, the basal portion of the inner web in- 

 cluding the shaft cinnamon ; outermost rectrix short, acute, and 

 purple-black ; bill black. Total length about 2"8 inches, wing 1-35 ; 

 tail, central rectrices 0'4, longest 0"9 ; bill 0-6. 



Female. Under surface cinnamon, paler in the middle of the 

 abdomen ; a dark spot below the eye ; fianks shining green ; lateral 

 rectrices cinnamon, with a wide subterminal black baud. 



Hah. Venezuela. 



a. (^ ad. sk. Sierra Nevada, Merida, Vene- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



zuela (Goering). 

 h. (S ad. ; c. 2 ad. Venezuela (Spence). Sclater Coll. 



sk. 

 d. (J ad. ; e. (^ Venezuela (Salle). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



juv. sk. 

 /. c? ad. ; ff. 2 ad. Venezuela. E. Dyson [C.]. 



sk. 

 h-k. cj ad. ; I. <S [Venezuela.] Salvin-Godman & 



juv. ; m, n. $ Gould Colls. 



ad. .sk. 

 o. (5 ad. ; p. 5 ad. Venezuela. E. Dyson [C.]. 



St. 



2. Chsetocercus jourdani. 



Omismva jourdaui, Boiirc. Rev. Zool. 18;39, p. 295 ; id. Ann. Sc. 



Phys. et 'Nat. Lyon, ix. p. 227, pis. 5, 6 (1846). 

 Mellisuga jourdani, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 113. 

 Calotliorax jourdaui, Bj3. Consp. Ai\ i. p. 85 ; id. Rev. Zool. 1854, 



p. 257 ; Gould, Mon. Troc/i. iii. pi. 150 (May 1861). 

 Lucifer S. Calothorax joui-dani, Reich. Aiifz. d. Col. p. 13. 

 Chsetocercus jourdani, Gray., List Gen. B. (1855) p. 22; Goidd, 



Intr. Troch.ip. 92; Mtils. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iv. p. 125; id. 



Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 228 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 121. 

 Ornismya (Osalia) jourdani, Muh. ^- Verr. Class. Troch. p. 92. 

 Trochilus jourdani, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 145. 



Similar to C. roscr in all respects, but with the throat glittering 

 violet-red instead of rosy red. 

 Hah. Trinidad I. 



a-f. (S ad. ; g. S juv. ; h. [Trinidad.] Salvin-Godman & Gould 



? ad. sk. Colls. 



3. Chaetocercus bnrmeisteri. 



Chaetocercus burmeisteri, Scl. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 638 ; Scl. ^ Hudson, 

 Arg. Orn, ii. p. 2, pi. 11 ; Bttrm. Ibis, 1890, p. 384. 



Allied to C. rose and C. jourdani, but with the tail differently 

 coloured, the second rectrix from oiitside being wholly black and 

 the next one cinnamon over nearly the whole of the inner web. 



Dr. Burmeister, in his description, says that the type has only 



