54 SYNOPSIS OF THE HUMMING-BIRDS. 



Hub. Ecuador. 



AduU. Crown shining violet-blue. Rest of head, nape, sides of the neck, black. 

 Upper parts brilliant metallic bluish-green. Wing coverts shining golden-green. 

 Throat, breast, and abdomen shining violet-blue, flanks glittering green. Under 

 tail coverts blackish, tipped with white; upper coverts dark purple. Median 

 rectrices bronzy-purple; lateral ones white margined and tipped with purplish- 

 black. Wings purplish-brown. Bill black. Total length, 4g in. Wing, 3 in. 

 Tail, 2 in. Culmen, | in. 



2. Fanoplites flavescens. 



Trochilvs flavescens, Lodd., Proc. Committ. Corresp. Zool. Soc. (1832), p. 7. 

 Ornismi/a paradisea, Boiss., Rev. Zool. (1840), p. 6. 

 Mellisuya flavescens, Grat, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 112, sp. 26. 

 Amazilia flavescens, Bon., Consp. Gen. Av., vol. i, p. 78 (18.'50). 



Boissonneaua flavescens, Reich., Troch. Enutn., p. 8, pi. 787, figs. 4830-31.— Id., Aufz. der Colib., p. 11. 

 Clytolcema flavescens, Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (1854). p. 2.')4. 



Fanoplites flavescens, Gould, Mon. Trocli., vol. ii, pi. 111. — Id., Intr. Troch., octavo ed., p. 80.— Cab. and Hein., 

 Mus. Hein. Th., iii, p. 74 (I860).— Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., torn, ii, p. 335. 



ffab. Columbia and Ecuador. 



AduU. Crown of head and throat brilliant golden-green. Entire plumage of 

 upper and under surface shining dark green. Thighs white. Under tail coverts 

 pale green margined with buff. Wings purplish-brown, their under coverts rufous. 

 Central tail feathers greenish-bronze, lateral ones light buff, margined and tipped 

 with bronze-green. Bill black. Total length, 4|. Wing, 2| in. Tail, 2| in. 

 Culmen, f in, 



3. Fanoplites matthe^vsi. 



Trochilus matthewsi, Bourc, P. Z. S. (1847), p. 43. 



lUeUisuga matthewsi. Gray. Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 112, sp. 27. 



Heliodoxa matthewsi, Reich., Aufz. der Colib., p. 9 (1853). 



Clytolcema matthewsi, Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (1854), p. 254. 



Boissonneaua matthewsi. Reich., Troch. Enum., p. 8, pi. 788, figs. 4832-33 (1855). 



Panoplites mattheivsi. Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii, pi. 112. — Id., Intr. Troch., octavo ed., p. 80. — Cab. and 



Hein., Mus. Hein. Th., iii, p. 74 (note 2) (1860). 

 Clytolcema (Alosia) matthewsi, Mui.s., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., vol. ii, p. 230. 



ITab. Western Ecuador, Peru. 



Adidt. Head, throat, and upper parts shining golden-green, darkest on the back. 

 Under surface deep chestnut-red. Thighs and under tail coverts rich buff. Wings 

 purplish-brown; their coverts shining grass-green. Central rectrices greenish- 

 bronze, remainder cinnamon tipped with greenish-bronze. Bill black. Total 

 length, 4| in. Wing, 2| in. Tail, 1| in. Culmen, | in. 



An immature individual in my collection, obtained by Whitely at Huasaupilla, 

 Peru, at an elevation of 9000 feet, had the upper surface dull green, and the under 

 surface dark reddish-brown spangled with green. The central rectrices are reddish- 

 bronze, and the rest reddish-buff, margined and tipped with reddish-bronze. 



