P ANYCHLORA. 



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Hah. Venezuela, Cayenne, Amazonian region of Brazil, Peru. 



Male. Upper parts bright green, rather brilliant on the crown. Under surface 

 luminous green, waslied more or less with blue upon the throat, sometimes even 

 extending to the breast. Tail nearly even, blue-black. Bill black. Wings pur- 

 plish-brown. Total length, 3^ in. Wing, If in. Tail, 1 in. Culmen, | in. 



Female resembles that of C. atala. 



I close the list of the Trochilidfe with the genus Pantchlora; not that it essen- 

 tially should be placed here, and nowhere else, but because, in the arrangement of 

 the groups that appears most natural to me after many years of study, and which 

 I suggest in this Synopsis, the species of this genus seem to find here their appro- 

 priate position. The three forms given below are among the very smallest of 

 Humming-birds, and are chiefly distinguished from the members of Culorostilbon 

 by their short, square, green tails, the feathers of which in one species are attenuated 

 and pointed. — Different shades of green, very luminous, are the prevailing, indeed 

 the only colors of tlie males; the females diff"ering in their gray under surface, and 

 variously colored rectrices. 



Genus CXX.— PANYCHLORA. 



Panychlora, Cab. and ITe™., Mus. Hein. Th., iii (18C0), p. 49. 



Ch. Bill as long as the head, straight ; feathers of fore- 

 head projecting on culmen, nostrils hidden. Wings long, 

 reaching nearly to the end of the tail. Tail short, even. 

 Feet very small, tarsi partly clothed. Sexes unlike. 



Range. Venezuela and Columbia. 



Three species are known. 



Key to the. species. 



A. Tail shioing grass-green, bill long. 



B. Tail very dark green, bill moderately long. 



C. Tail bright green, outer rectrices extremely narrow and pointed. 



Type. 

 T. alicice, Bourc. 



FiK. 127. 



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J*anychUra atiri/i;. 3 . 24730.. 

 !New Granada. 



1 . P. poortmani. 



2. /'. alicise. 



3. P. slenura. 



1. Panychlora poortmani. 



Ornhmy a poortmani, Bourc, Rev. Zool. (1843), p. 2.— Id., Ann. See. Sci. Phys., Lyon (1843), p. 39. 

 Hylorharis poortmani, Grat, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 115, sp. 48.— Bon., Consp. Gen. Av., vol. i, p. 74 (18r)0). 

 Chlorestes poortmani, Reioh., Aufz. der Colib., p. 7 (1853).— Id., Troch. Eaum., p. 4, t. 691, figs. 4531-32 (1855). 

 Smaragdilis esmeralda, Reich., Aufz. der Colib., p. 7 (1853). 

 Chlorostilbon esmeralda, Rkich., Troch. Enum., p. 4, t. 694, figs. 4542-43 (1855). 



Chlorodilhon poortmani. Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (1854). p. 238.— Goui.d, Mon. Troch., vol. v, pi. 358. 

 Panychlora poortmanni. Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein. Th., iii. p. 50 (18G0).— Gori.D, Intr. Troch., octavo cd., p. 

 180 (1861).— Elliot, Ibis (1875), p. 170.— Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., torn, ii, p. 112 (1875). 



Hah. Columbia. 



