Genera of Hummiiiir Birds. 73 



Total length, 3 Jin. Wing, i\. Tail, 2. Culmen, \. 



" Elliot, loc. cit." 



Female unknown. 



This rare species was discovered by Mr. Jelsky. 



100. Metallura SMARAGDINICOLLLS, D'Orb. and Lafr., 

 Syn. Av., 1838, ii., p. 31. 



Mellisuga smaragdinicollis. Gray, Gen. Birds, vol i., p. 1 12. 



Urol amp ra smaragdinicollis, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein., 

 i860, t. iii., p. 68. 



Violet Tail, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iii., p. 196. 



La Metallure a gorge d'emcrande, Muls., Hist., Nat. Ois. 

 Mou., 1876, t. iii., p. 120. 



Habitat. — Bolivia, Columbia? 



Male. — Upperside shining dark bronzy-green. Tail purple 

 bronze, with shining dark blue reflections in certain lights, 

 beneath reddish purple. Throat luminous dark grass-green. 

 Rest ot underside bronzy-green washed with pale buff on 

 breast and middle of abdomen. Undertail coverts brownish 

 bronze edged with pale buff. Bill black. 



Total length, 3|^in. Wing, 2\. Tail, i.'. Culmen, \. 



Female. — Upperside bronze-green. Underside buff, glossed 

 with green on flanks. Throat and breast spotted with bronzv- 

 green. Anal repion white. Undertail coverts buff", with 

 bronzv green in centre. The two outermost rectrices of tail 

 tipped with grav. 



This rare species was discovered by D'Orbigny. My 

 specimens were collected in Bolivia by Buckley. 



loi. Mktaliara peruviana. Boucard, H. Bird., 1893, 

 vol. iii., p. 6. 



Peruvian I'iolet Tail. 



La Metallure Peruvieiuie. 



Habitat. — Peru. 



Male. — Upperside bronzv-green. Median rectrices dark 

 greenish bronze, with bluish purple reflections in certain lights, 

 beneath shining bluish-purple, with reddish-purple reflections. 

 Throat luminous orrass-CTreen. Sides of neck and breast 



