r ANOTLITES. 



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Following Petasophora come the members of Panoplites. These, although 

 possessing the same form, differ entirely from each other in plumage. Exhibitin"' 

 - brilliant metallic colors, they yet agree only in having their upper parts green ; 

 while the under surface is clothed in strongly contrasted colors of diverse hues. 



Two generic names were proposed for the following three species: viz., Bois- 

 sonneatia, Reich., and Panoplites, Gould, almost simultaneously, though the dates 

 given would make the one first named have priority of about one year. Rcichen- 

 bach's genus was never defined, and has not been employed by ornithologists except 

 in a few instances. Mr. Gould did not give a definition of his genus until the 

 Introduction to his Monograph of the Trochilidae was published in 1861. It had, 

 however, been generally accepted for the species he originally intended should be 

 contained in it, and since it has been regularly defined by its author, while the 

 other never has, I have employed the term of Panoplites, in place of Boissonneaa. 

 The three known species being essentially generically the same, the other terms 

 proposed by M. Mulsant do not require any consideration. 



Genus XXII. -PANOPLITES, 



Boi s sonneaua , REirn., Aufz. der Colib., p. 11 (1853). 



Pa iioplites , Gould, Mod. Troch., pt. viii (1854) (Uesc. null.). — Id., Intr. Mon. Troch., 



octavo ed., p. 79 (1861) (desc). 

 Alosia, MoLSANT., Cat. Ois. Mouch. (1875), p. 17. 

 G alenia, Muls. and Verr., Class. Troch. (1865), p. 47. 

 Cai/jdjce, McLS. and Verr., Class. Troch. (1865), p. 65. 



Type. 



T. flavescens, Lodd. 



T.jardim', Bourc. 

 T. matiheivst, Bourc. 

 T. jardini, Bourc. 

 T. flavescens, Lodd. 



Ch. Bill stout, straight, longer than 

 the head. Wings long, pointed. Tail 

 square, when spread, feathers broad. 

 Tarsi clothed. Hind toe as long as the 

 middle one. Sexes similar in plumage, 



Ranrje. Columbia and Ecuador 



Three species are known. 



Fig. 22. 



Tanoplites /lavesoTis. ^ . Autio(juia, Columbia. Salmon. 



Key to the species. 

 A. Upper parts metallic-green. 



a. Abdomen metallic blue. Lateral rectriccs white, margined with pnrple. 



b. Under surface metallic golden-green. Lateral rectrices buff margined 



with bronzy-green. 



c. Under surface deep chestnut-red. 



1 . P. jardini. 



2. P. flavescens. 



3. P. malthewsi. 



1. Panoplites jardini. 



Trochilus jardini, Bourc, Compt. Rend. (1851), t. xxii, p. 187. 



Florisuga jardini, Reich. , Aufz. der Colib., p. 14 (1853).— Id., Troch. Enum., p. 12.— Bon., Rev. and Mag. 



Zool. (1854), p. 253. 

 Panoplites jardini, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii, pi. 110.— Id., Intr. Troch., octavo ed., p. 80.— Muls., Uist. Nat. 



Ois. Mouch., torn, ii, p. 233. — Cab. and Hein., Mus. llein. Th., iii, p. 74 (note 3). 



