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4. Chalybura melanorrhoa. 



Chalyhura melanorrhoa, Salv., P. Z. S. (18C4), p. 585. 



Chalybura carmioli, Lawr., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. (18G5), p. 39. 



Lampormn melanorrhoa, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., torn, i, p. 174. 



Hub. Costa Rica, Yeragua. 



IfaJe. Head and upper parts dark grass-green. Rump purplish-bronze. "Winj^s 

 purplish-brown. Under parts very dark shining grass-green. Abdomen dark brown 

 glossed with green. Under tail coverts black. Tail dark bronzy-purple. Maxilla 

 black, mandible flesh-color. Total length, -l^ in, "Wing, 2| in. Tail, 1| in. C'ul- 



mcn 



' 8 



ni. 



5. Chalybura caeruleiventris. 



Trochilus cwruleogasfer, Gould, P. Z. S. (1817), p. 96. 

 Polytmus cwrulcogastcr, Gray, Geu. Birds, vol. i, p. 108, sp. 18. 

 Cyanochloris cceruleiventris, Eeich., Aufz. der Colib., p. 10 (1853). 



Agyrlria {chalybura) cceruleiventris, Reich., Troch. Eiuim., p. 7, pi. 767, figs. 477.5-76 (18.")5). 

 (Iialybura cceruleiventris, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein. Th., iii, p. 20 (1860). 

 Ilypuropdla cceruleogaster, Gori.D, Mon. Trocli., vol. ii, pi. 91. 

 Chalybura cceruleogasler, Goui.d. Iiitr. Trocli., octavo cd.. p. 73 (1861). 



Lampornis cceruleiventris, Bon., Kcv. aud Mag. Zool. (1854), p. 250. — Id., Consp. Av., p. 72. — Mul.s., Hist. 

 Nat. Ois. Mouch., torn, i, p. 168. 



Hub. Columbia. 



3I'(h\ Upper parts dark grass-green. Chin and throat shining green, graduating 

 into a rich dark blue on the breast and abdomen. Flanks and lower parts of abdo- 

 men green. Under tail coverts pure white. Tail black, with steel-blue reflections. 

 Bill black. Total length, 4| in. Wing, 2| in. Tail, 2 in. Culmen, 1 in. 



Female. Difi"ers from the male in having tlie under surface pale gray. Median 

 rectrices bronzy-green, remainder bluish-black, with the two outermost feathers 

 tipped with white. 



Genus XX.— FLORISUGA. 



Orthorhync h u s , III. Prod. Syst. Mamni., etc., p. 209 (1811) (nee Lacei-f:d., 1799-1800). T. 

 Lampornit, Less, (nee Swai.n.m., 1827), Tab. Esp. Ois. Mouch. (1829), p. xxiii. T. 



T. 



Plor isug a , Bon., Compt. Rend., p. 382 (1850). 



Ch. Bill strong, nearly straight, 

 about as long as the head. Tail ample, 

 slightly rounded. AVings nearly as long 

 as the rectrices. Upper tail coverts 

 reaching nearly to the tips of the median 

 rectrices. Sexes unlike. 



lianfje. Central America from Gua- 

 temala, northern parts of South America 

 and the Amazonian region of Brazil; 

 island of Tobago, Columbia, Peru. 



But two species are known. 



TVPE. 



mellivorus, 

 mellivorus, 

 mellivorus, 



Linn. 



Linn. 

 Linu. 



Fig. 20. 



Storinuija mcUivura. 



WLitcly. 



