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SYNOPSIS OF THE HUMMING-BIRDS. 



Cyanomyia francia:, Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (1854). p. 254.— Gocld, Mou. Trocli., vol. v, pi. 28".— Id., Intr. 



Troch., octavo ed., p. 14'J (18G1).— Elliot, Ibis (1870). p. 31C. 

 Leucolia francia, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., torn, i, p. 217. 

 Trochilus hypoleucus, Licht., Mus. Berlin. 



Hah. Columbia. 



Aihdt. Top of head and occiput shining blue. Sides and nape of neck brilliant 

 metallic pale green. Upper parts bronzy-green, changing to coppery-red on the 

 rump and upper tail coverts. Wings purplish-brown. Flanks bronzy-green. Entire 

 rest of under parts pure wliite. Tail greenish-bronze. Maxilla and tip of mandible 

 black, base of latter flesh-color. Feet black. Total length, 3.f in. Wing, 2 in. 

 Tail, If in. Culmen, | in. (Type in my collection.) 



Young have the crown green, and a dark baud on the lateral rectrices. 



7. *lTranoniitra cyanicoUis. 



Trochilus ( ?) cyamcollis. Gould. P. Z. S. (1853), p. 61. 



Uranomitra cyanicoUis, Bkich., Aufz. der Colib. (1853), p. 10. — Id., Tioch. Enum., p. 7 (1855). — Cab. and 



Hei.n., Mus. Hein. Th., iii, p. 41 (note 4) (1860). 

 Cyanomyia cyanicoUis, Box., Rev. and Mag-. Zool. (1854), p. 254. — Gould, Men. Troch., vol. v, pi. 288.— Id., 



Intr. Troch., octavo ed., p. 149 (1861).— Elliot, Ibis (1876), p. 316. 

 Leucolia cyanicoUis, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., torn, i, p. 212. 



ITab. Peru. 



"Crown of the head, sides, and nape of the neck greeni,sh-blue ; upper surface 

 bronzy-green ; throat, centre of the abdomen, and under tail coverts white ; flanks 

 bronzy-brown ; tail bronzy-green, all but the two middle feathers crossed near the 

 tip with an obscure dusky band ; upper mandible and tip of the lower mandible 

 black, the remainder of the latter fleshy-white ; feet dark brown." (Gould, Men. 

 Troch.) Total length, 3f in. Wing, 2^ in. Tail, 11 in. Bill, | in. 



Genus CI.— LEUCIPPUS. 



'Leucippus, Box., Conipt. Rend., p. .382 (1850). 

 Talaph or us, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., torn, i, p. 257. 



Ch. Bill longer than the head, slightly curved, 

 narrow and rounded at base, nostrils exposed; wings 

 long and pointed. Tail rounded. Tarsi clothed to 

 the toes. Sexes alike. 



Range. Brazil, valley of the Amazon; Peru and 

 Bolivia. 



Two species are known. 



Type. 

 T. chionogaster, Tsch. 

 T. chlorocercus, Uould. 



Fig. 109. 



XtucwiKU <^hloroarcw:. d- 55378. PelM. Pern. 



' Bonaparte (1. c.) gives the T. hi7-iieri,Bonrc. (=T. chionogaster, Tsch.), and T. fallax, Bonrc, 

 a.<? the types of his genus Leucippus, but afterwards (1854) made the latter the type of his genus 



DoLEROMYIA. 



