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3Iide. Chin and tliroat shining dark hiznlinc-hhie. Entire rest of body glittering 

 metallic golden-green. "Wings purplish-brown. Median rectriees dark gri^en, ni-xt 

 on cither side black, remainder black at base, rest white. Bill black. Total length, 

 b\ in. Wing, 2| in. Tail, 2:^ in. Culmen, 1 in. 



Female. Differs in having the centre of the throat only, blue, and the centre of 

 breast and abdomen gray. In size the sexes do not differ much. 



8. Campylopterus villavicencio. 



TrocMliis villavicencio, Bonne, Compt. Kcml., vol. 32, p. 187. — Id., Rev. and Ma<:j. Zool. (Ifi.'il), p. 97. 

 rtcUomaster villai-iccncio. IvEirii., Aiifz. tier Colil)., p. 13 (1853).— Bo.v., Kf-v. and Ma'j. Zuol. (18.")4), p. 2")!. 

 Selasophorus (Hdiomasler) villavicencio, Rkicii., Troeh. Enuni.. p. 11 (lS."i.")). 

 Campylopterus splendens, Lawk., Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist., vol. vi, p. 2fj2 (1858), ^.— Goli.d, Litr. Trodi., 



octavo ed., p. 53. 

 Campylopterus villavicencio, Goui.d, jNIon. Troch., vol. ii, pi. 42. — Id., lutr. Trocli., octavo cd., p. 53. — M[-r,s., 



Hist. Nat. Oia. Mouch., torn, i, p. 1.30. 



Uab. Ecuador, E.io Napo. 



Male. Top of head metallic golden-green. Upper parts and flanks dark green. 

 Wings purplish-brown, Throat deep metallic purplish-blue. Under surface dark 

 greenish-gray. Median rectriees dark green, remainder steel-blue. Uill black. 

 Total length, 5^ in. Wing, 2f in. Tail, 2j in. Culmen, 1 in. 



Female. Top of head metallic golden-green. Upper parts golden-green. Under 

 surface ashy-white. Tail like the male, with the lateral feathers tipped with graj isli- 

 white. Maxilla black, mandible flesh-color. 



This specie^ is remarkable, in that both sexes have metallic crowns. 



9. Campylopterus cuvieri. 



Trochilus cuvieri, Delattr. and Bodrc, Rev. Zool. (1846), p. 310. 



Campylopterus cuvieri, Box., Consp. Gen. Av., p. 71, sp. 9 (1850).— Gocld, Mon. Trocli., vol. i, pi. 52.— Reich. , 



Trocti. Ennm., p. 9, t. 805, fig. 4871 (1855). 

 Apliantochroa cuvieri. Box., Rev. and M.ag. Zool. (1854), p. 250.— Cab. and IIei.v., Mus. Ilcin. Tb., iii, p. 14 



(18C0).— MuLS., Hist. Nat. Ois. Moucli , torn, i, p. 13. 

 Pheeochroa cuvieri, Gould, Intr. Troch., octavo ed., p. 55 (1861). 



Hah. Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Columbia. 



Adult. Upper surface shining grass-green. Wings purplish-brown. Under sur- 

 face dull bronze-green, feathers tipped with gray. Centre of abdomen buff. Under 

 tail coverts brown fringed with white. Tail greenish-bronze, outer feathers tipped 

 with white. Maxilla black, mandible flesh-color. Total length, 4^ in. Wing, 2| 

 in. Tail, 2 in. Culmen, | in. 



This species and the succeeding one have generally been placed in the genus 

 Phcnochroa, Gould ; but as tliey have (in a less degree) the flattened broad shafts 

 on the primaries, which arc the chief distinction of CrUiPYLorTEUUS, and no different 

 character that is strictly generic, I have not employed the term Phn'ochroa. As 

 the members of the genus Aphantochroa have very differently shaped shafts to the 

 primaries, this bird and the C. rohcrti should not be placed with th(nn, as lias been 

 done by M. Mulsant. 



