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most extensive on outermost feather. Bill black. Total len'nli of in AMu"- 3 

 in. Tail, 2 in. Cnlmcn, Ij in. 



Female. Above dark green, brownish on the crown. Tliroat white spotted with 

 brown. Breast white, rest of under parts brownish-black spotted with "-reen. 

 Wings purplish-brown. Tail hke that of the male, but tipped with purplish-black. 



5. Bourcieria torquata. 



Ornismya torquata, Boisso.v. Rev. Zool. (1840), p. 6. 



Mellisufja torquata. Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 112. sp. 12. 



Bourcieria torquata, Gould, Mon. Troch.. vol. iv, pi. 251. — Id., Intr. Troch., octavo ed., p. l.S.^. — Bon., Consp. 



Gen. Av., vol. i, p. 73.— Jd., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (IH:')-!), p. 2r)-l.— Reic-h., Aufz. dcr I'lilil)., p. 10.— Id., 



'I'roch. Knum., p. 7, t. 748, figs. 4716-17. 

 Eumophania torquata, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein. Th., iii, p. 79 (18C0). — Mlls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Moucli.,vol. 



ii, p. 317. 



Hal. Columbia. 



Male. Differs from B. fiih/idigula by having a metallic-blue crown with violet 

 reflections, and a black throat, with but a slight trace of green. In all otlicr 

 respects the two birds are alike. Total length, 5j in. Wing, 3 in. Tail, 2 in. 

 Culmen, ll in. 



Female like that of the previous species. 



6. Bourcieria traviesi. 



Diphlngena {ITelianthea) traviesi, Mur.s. and Verr., Ann. Soe. Linn., Lyon (1866), p. 109. 

 Eudosia traviesi, Mui,s., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., toin. iii, p. 2. 



Eab. Columbia. 



Ifale. Forehead and centre of crown blue graduating into greenish-blue near the 

 occiput; remainder of the uppcrpart of head very dark grass-green, black in some 

 lights. Throat green with a small metallic-violet spot in tlie centre. A broad 

 white band across the breast. Abdomen, flanks, and under tail coverts glittering 

 grass-green. Upper tail coverts metallic violet-red. Tail dark greenish-bronze. 

 Bill black. Total length, 5 in. Wing, 2fJ in. Tail, 21 in. Culmen, If in. 



Two specimens are known, one in my collection, and one in Count Turati's at 

 Milan. 



Female. Unknown. 



7. Bourcieria ^^ilsoni. 



Trochilus tvilsoni, Delatt. and Borne, Rev. Zool. (1846), p. 305. 



Mellisuga wilsoni. Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 112 (1844-49). 



Celigena ivilsoni, Box., Consp. Gen. Av., p. 73 (IS.'iO). 



Bourcieria tvilsoni, Bon., Consp. Gen. Av., p. 73 (1850). — Id., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (1854). p. 252. 



Cwligena wilsoni, Gofi.D, Mon. Troch., vol. iv, pi. 258. 



Lampropygia wilsoni, Reich., Troch. Ennm., p. 7, pi. 751, fi!r,<!. 4723. 4724 —In.. Anft. der Colib.. p. 10. — 



Gould, Intr. Troch., octavo cd., p. 137 (1861).— Elliot, Ibi.s (1876), p. 59.— Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein. 



Th., iii, p. 78 (note) (1860). 

 Pilonia wilsoni, MuLs., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch , torn, iii, p. 7. 



Hab. Columbia, Ecuador, 



