lOL^MA. 57 



^ Under tail coverts green edged with rufous. Wings pur])lish-brown ; base of inner 

 webs of secondaries rufous. Tail golden-brown, tipped with bronze-green. Bill 

 black. Total length, 4| in. Wing, 3 in. Tail, 2^ in. Culmen, | in. 



Female. Upper surfoce grass-green. Under parts rufous. Median rectrices 

 bronze-green, next three deep rufous tipped with bronze, and the outermost pale 

 rufous. 



2. Cl3rtolaema aurescens. 



Trochilus (Lampornis) aurescens, Gould, P. Z. S. (1846), p. 88. 

 Polyimus aurescens, Gray, Gen. JJirds. vol. i, p. 108, sp. 2H. 

 Lampornis aurescens, Bon., Consp. Gen. Av., vol. i, p. 72 (18.i0). 



Margarochrysis aurescens, Reich , Aufz. der Colib., p. 11 (1853). — Id., Trocli. Entini., p. 8 (18.')5). 

 Campi/lopterus aurescens, Bon., Rev. and Map. Zool. (1854), p. 250. 



Clytolwma aurescens, Gould, Men. Trocli., vol. iv, pi. 250. — Id., Intr. Troch., octavo ed., p. 134. — Mi ls.. Hist. 

 Nat. Ois. Mouch., torn, ii, p. 225. 



Hab. Ecuador and Peru. 



Mule. Forehead deep shining blue. All the upper surface and abdomen dark 

 green. Chin black. Throat metallic grass-green. A broad band of deep rufous 

 across the breast. Under and upper tail coverts grass-green. Median rectrices 

 bronze-green; lateral ones chestnut-red tipped with bronze-green. Wings dark 

 purple. Bill black. Total length, 4g iu. Wing, 2| in. Tail, 1^ in. Culmen, ^ in. 



Female. Unknown. 



Genus XXV.— IOL.EMA. 



Type. 

 lonolaima, Reich., Aufz. der Colib. (1853), p. 9. T. schreihersii, Bourc. 



lonolcema, Gould, Hon. Troch., pt. .xiii (1857). T. schreihersii, Bourc. 



lolcema, Gould, lutr. Troch., octavo ed., p. 73. I. frontalis, Lawr. 



Fie. 2.5. 



Jolftna /rontalU. 5". Rio Napo. Verreaux. 



Ch. Bill stout, longer than the head, straight; nostrils hidden by frontal 

 feathers ; wings long, reaching two-thirds the length of tail. Tail long and deeply 

 forked. Tarsi clothed ; feet small, hind toe shorter than middle toe. Sexes 

 unlike in plumage. 



Range. Ecuador, Peru. 



August, 1878. 



