SYNOPSIS OF THE HUMMING-BIRDS. 



Ch. Bill long, much curved, stout, high at 

 base. Wings long, narrow. Tail inodcrate, 

 rounded, feathers pointed in young. Sexes 

 alike in plumage. 



Ramje. Central Amcricn, Venezuela, Guiana, 

 Brazil, Columbia, and Ecuador. 



Six species belong to this genus, according 

 to my views. 



Fig. 4. 



Glaucis liimutua. MuriJa, Vonezuola. Goering, 



A. Uiirlcr parts buff. 



a. Tail clicstnut, with a subterminal black bar, tips white. Median 



rectrices shining green, tip white. 



b. Tail reddish-bronze, tip whitish. 



B. Throat black. 



a. Tail green with light edges. 



b. Tail with central feathers green, tips white, lateral ones white mar- 



gined more or less with blackish-brown. 



c. Tail, median feathers green, rest buff margined with blackish-brown 



on the outer ones. 



d. Tail, median feathers dark green, lateral ones pure white, with a very 



broad subtermiiial Ijlack baud. 



1. Glaucis hirsuta. 



Trocliilus hirsutus, Gmel., Syst. Nat., torn, i, p. 490 (1788). 



Trochilus brasiliensis, Latu., Ind. Orn., vol. i, p. 308, sp. 23 (1790). 



Trochilus ferrtigineus, Wied., Beitr., vol. iv., p. 120, sp. 21. 



Trochilus mazeppa, Less., Troch., p. 18, pi. 3 (1831). 



Trochilus supcrciliosus. Less., Colib., t. 6, J? (1831). 



Glaucis hirsuta, Boie, Isis (1831), p. 545.— Rkicu., Aufz. der Colib. (1853), p. 15.— Id., Troch. Fnum. (1855), 



p. 12.— Bo.v., llev.and M:ig. Zool. (1854), p. 249.— Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein. Th., iii, p. 4 (18G0).— 



Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. i, pi. 5.— Id., Intr. Trocli., octavo ed., p. 38 (18G1).— Salv. and Elliot, Ibis 



(1873), p. 276.— MuLS., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., torn. i. p. 39. 

 Trochilus dnminicus, Licht. (nee Linn.), Doublt., p. 10, sp. 110. 

 Polytmus hirsutus, Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 108, sp. 83 (1844-49). 

 Glaucis mazeppa, Gould, Mom. Troch., vol. i., pi. 6. — Id., Intr. Troch., octavo ed., p. 38. — Reich., Aufz. der 



Colib., p. 15.— Id., Troch. Enum., p. 12.— Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (1854), p. 249. 

 Glaucis melanura, Gould, P. Z. S. (18G0), p. 3G4.— Id., Mon. Troch., vol. i, pi. 9. — Id., Intr. Troch., octavo ed., 



p. 39 (1861). 

 Glaucis lanceolata, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. i, pi. 8. — Id., Intr. Troch., octavo ed., p. 39. 

 Glaucis cenea, Lawr., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phil. (18^7), p. 232. 



Hab. Costa Rica to Rio de Janeiro, along the eastern coast of South America. 

 Islands of Tobago and Trinidad. 



Adult Entire upper surface and sides of the neck, shining green, suifused with 

 dark brown on the head. Wings purplish-brown; under surface varying from 

 chestnut-red to buff. Tail rounded ; median rectrices shining green tipped with 

 white. Bill, maxilla black, mandible flesh-color. Total length, 4i in. Wing, 

 S^in. Tail, 1§ in. Culmen, 11 in. 



The young birds have the tail feathers sharply pointed, and the black subterminal 



