Genera of Hwiiming Birds. 29 



Total length, 31 in. Wing, \\. Tail, If. Culmen, \. 



Female. — Upperside pale green. Throat and breast dull 

 white. Abdomen and undertail-coverts rufous. Flankf, rufous, 

 tinged with green. Tail rounded. Median pair shining bluish- 

 green, remainder buff at base, with a broad black central band 

 and tips dull white. Bill black. 



Total length, 3| ins. Wing, 1-^. Tail, 1|. Culmen, |. 



This is also a very rare species. I have two very fine male 

 specimens and one female. One male was graciously offered to 

 me by the Authorities of the Smithsonian Institution when I 

 visited this Magnificent Institution in 1876. It was collected 

 by Doctor Bryant at Inagua. The two other specimens were 

 presented to me by my friend, Mr. Chas. Cory, of Boston. They 

 were collected by Mr. C. L. Maynard at Inagua. 



Genus XVII. Calliphlox, Boie Isis, 1831, p. 544. 



Philodice, Muls. and Verr, Class. Troch., 1865, p. 86. 



Type : T. Amethystinus, Gmelin. 



Bill shorter than the head, straight, slightly curved at tip. 

 Tail long, deeply forked, feathers narrow. Sexes unlike. 



Habitat. — -Trinidad, Venezuela, Gruiana, Brazil. 



42. Calliphlox amethystina, Gmel., Syst. Nat., 1788, vol. i., 



p. 496. 



Mellisuga atnethystlna, Steph., Gen. ZooL, vol. xiv., p. 243. 



Trochilus hrevicauda, Spix, Av. Braz., vol. i., p. 79. 



Ornysmia amethystina, Less, Oiscaux. Mou., 1829, p. 150. 



Ornysniia aniethystoides, Less, Troch., 1831, p. 79. 



Mellisuga amethystoides, Gray, Gen. of Birds, vol. i., p. 113. 



Trochilus campestris, Pr. Max, Beit. Naturg. Bras., p. 73. 



Tryphaena amethystina^ Bon. Consp. Gen. Av., 1850, vol. i., 

 p. 84. 



Tryphaena amethystoides, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av., 1850, vol. i., 

 p. 84. 



Calliphlox amethystoides, Reich, Aufz, der Colib., 1853, 

 p. 12. 



The Amethyst, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iii., p. 159. 



Le Calliphlox amethyste, Muls., l[ist. Nat. Ois. m. t. iv., 

 p. 46. 



Habitat. — Trinidad, Venezuela, Guiana, Brazil. 



