METALLURA, 



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Female? or young. Upper surface and flanks bronze-green. Throat and abdomen 

 wliite, with a black stripe running the entire length of botli. Under tail coverts 

 "■reen. Tail above, dark purple glossed with green and the lateral feathers tipped 

 ■with white; beneath, the lateral feathers are fiery-bronze for three-fourths their 

 length, succeeded by a purplish-black bar glossed with green, and the tips white. 

 Size same as that of the male. 



Immature male. Resembles the above, but has the centre of the throat luminous 

 emerald-green bordered with white. 



Genus LXXXIV.— METALLURA. 



Metallura, Gould, P. Z. S. (1847), p. 9-4. 



Urolampra, Cab. and Hein., Miis. Hfin. Th., iii, p, 68 {I860). 



Lavania, Muls., Catal. Ois. Mouth. (1875), p. 2-1. 



Lavinia , Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., torn, iii, p. 106 (1877). 



Type. 

 T. opaca, Licht. 

 T. Ii/rianthina. Lodd. 

 T. eupognn. Cab. 

 T. eupo(jun, Cab. 



Fi<?. 92. 



Ch. Bill straight, moderately long. Tail 

 ample, rounded when spread. Tarsi bare ; 

 feet large ; hind toe and nail longer than 

 middle toe and nail. Sexes unlike. 



Range. Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, 

 Peru, and Bolivia. 



Nine species are now known, of a com- 

 paratively large size, with brilliant throats, and luminous rectrices. These last are 

 of various colors, and in some of the species are extremely brilliant. Contrary to 

 the general law in this Familv, the tails of the females are as luminous as those of 

 the males, but the rest of their plumage is difi"ereut and much more subdued in its 

 coloration. 



2fdallura turiutilhina. 



2i7J0. Quito. 



Kei/ to the. species. 



A. Throat bluish-green ; general plumage blackish-purple, 



a. Tail luminous copper-color. 



b. Tail luminous vinou.s-purplc. 



c. Tail luminous purple, crissum white 1 



B. Centre of throat metallic-red. 



C. Throat raetallic-grccu. 



a. Tail metallic-bronze, changing to blue above, luminous bronze- 



green beneath. 



b. Tail purplish-blue above, shining grass-green beneath. 



c. Tail purpli.sh-green above, beneath deep violet. 



d. Tail purple-bronze. 



e. Tail deep violet with blue reflections. 



1. M. apnea. 



2. M.jelsH. 



3. M. chloropoyon. 



4. M. eupogon. 



5. M. seneicanda. 



C. M. primoUna. 



7. M. williami. 



8. M. Iijrianlhina. 



9. M. smaragdinicollis 



1. Metallura opaca. 



Trochilus (Lampornis) opacus, "Licht.," Tsch., Consp., p. 38.— Id., Faun. Per., p. 248 (1844), 



Trochilus ( ?) cuprciainda. Gould, V. Z. S. (1846). p. 87. 



Mellisitga cupreicauda, Uuay, (Jen. Birds, vol. i, p. 113. sp. 43. 



