132 Genera of Humming Birds. 



■ Le Panychlore a queue etroite, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1875, t. ii., p. I [8. 



Habitat — Merida, Venezuela. 



Male. — Crown metallic green. Upperside shining golden- 

 green. Underside metallic emerald-green. Undertail- 

 Goverts shining green. Tail bronze-green with blackish 

 reflections. Median rectrices long with round tips, lateral 

 very narrow, pointed, slightly longer, outermost ones ex- 

 cessively narrow and longer still. Wings purplish-brown. 

 Bill black. 



Total length, 3fin. Wing, if. Tail, i^. Culmen, |-. 



Female. — ^Upperside golden-green. Uppertail-coverts 

 shining green. Underside gray. Ear-coverts brownish- 

 black. A white line behind the eyes. Wings dark brown. 

 Median rectrices green, lateral green, then bluish-black with 

 gray tips, outermost ones grav at base, then steel-blue with a 

 large gray spot at tip. Bill black. 



Total length, sfin. Wing, if. Tail, i^. Culmen, f. 



It is a rare species. All my specimens were collected at 

 Merida, Venezuela. 



FAMILY VIII. AMAZILIIDAE, 



OR Family of Large Emeralds and Sapphires. 



Bill usually flesh colour with black tips ; in some genera 

 the maxilla and tip of mandible are black, in others it is all 

 black, about the same length as the head, straight, rather 

 wide at base, terminating to a sharp point. Body small or of 

 medium size Wings long and narrow. Rectrices of tail 

 narrow, of medium length, and more or less rounded, forked 

 in some genera, in others the outermost rectrices are slightly 

 shorter than the others, as in the genera Leucippiis, Leucoch- 

 loris, Aithurus, Eiipherusa, etc. Sexes unlike. All the 

 undersides of males are more or less brilliantly coloured 

 emerald green or sapphirine blue. Tarsi more or less clothed. 

 In the genera Saucerottia and Amazilia the tarsi are very 

 clothed. 



Type: Amazilia Reich, Av. Syst. Nat., 1849, pi. 39. 



Range. — Mexico, Central and South America, to Argen- 

 tine Republic. 



