BOUKCIERI A. 



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Gh. Bill very long, straight, pointod at ti]). 

 Tail long, broad, slightly forked. Tarsi bare. 

 Sexes similar in plumage. 



Range. Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, and 

 Peru. 



Thirteen species are here recorded. 



Bourckria/ul^idigaUi. S . 32US7. Qaito. 



Kcij to the siKcies. 



A. Broast deep buff. 



a. Head black, luminous grccu spot ou forehead. 1. B. inca. 



B. Breast pure white. 



a. Head metallic grass-green. " - 2. i?. conradi. 



b. Forehead, sides of head, and nape black. 



a'. Throat green. 



a". Crown metallic grass-green. . . 3. B. inseclivorn. 



h". Crown bluish-green. 4. B. fulgidhjula. 



b'. Throat black. Crown purjile. 6. B. lurquala. 



c. Forehead and crown metallic-blue, tail bronze. 6. B. Iravieai. 



C. White crescent -shaped mark on either side of the neck. 



a. General plumage purpli.sh-brown. 



a'. Throat bright metallic-purple. 1. B. unhoni. 



b'. Throat dark gray, without metallic lustre. 8. B. purpurea. 



b. General plumage black. 



a'. Gular spot dark metallic-purple. 9. B. asi^imilin. 



b'. Gular spot metallic-green, sometimes with blue reflections. 10. B. prunelli. 



D. Without white marks on the sides of the neck; throat without metallic coloring. 



a. Upper parts coppery-red ; tail dark rufous-olive. 11. B. raeligrna. 



b. Upper parts dark olive, tail ):iright olive. 12. B. colunihiana. 



c. Upper parts blackish-browu, tail dark olive, tinged with purple. 13. B. boliviana. 



1. Bourcieria inca. 



Bourcieria inca, Gould, Jard. Contr. Ornith. (1852), p. 136. — Id., Mon. Troch., vol. iv, pi. 2S4. — Id., Intr. 



Troch., octavo ed., p. 13(1 (1851). — Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (1854), p. 25'2. — Reich., Troch. Emuii., p. 



7, t. 752, figs. 4725-26 (18.55). 

 Homophania inca, Reich., Aufz. der Colib., p. 10 (1853). — Cab. and Hbin., Mus. Hein. Th., iii, p. 79 (note) 



(I860).— MuLS., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., vol. ii, p. 322. 



Sab. Peru and Bolivia. 



MaJe. Head jet-black, excepting a luminous metallic emerald-green spot on the 

 forehead, and tips of the throat feathers which are green. A broad band of deep 

 buff crosses the breast, and covers the sides of the neck; all the rest of the upper 

 and under surface glittering metallic grass-green. Upper tail coverts glittering 

 bronzy-green, as are also the median rectrices, lateral ones white tipped witli bronzy- 

 green. Wings purplish-brown. Bill black. Total length, ai in. Wing, 31 in. 

 Tail, 2j5^ in, Culmen, 1| in. 



