Genera of Humming Birds. 135 



Blue-throated Sapphironia, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. v., 

 p. 346. 



Le Lepidopyge a gorge bleue, Muls., Hist. Nat, Ois. Mou., 

 1875, t. xi, p. 69. 



Habitat. — Veragua and Panama. 



Male. — Upperside shining bronze-green, reddish on upper 

 tail-coverts. Median rectrices bronze-green, lateral bluish- 

 black. Throat and chest metallic violet-blue. Flanks and 

 abdomen shining grass-green. A tuft of white feathers on 

 each side of anal region. Undertail-coverts shining green, 

 margined with gray. Wings purplish-brown. Maxilla black. 

 Mandible flesh colour with black tips. 



Total length, 3{|in. Wing, 2\. Tail, if. Culmen, f. 



Female. — Upperside golden-green, darker on forehead. 

 Central rectrices bronze-green, lateral bluish-black, tipped 

 white. Underside white, washed with shining green feathers 

 on sides and middle of breast, and on flanks. Undertail- 

 coverts white. Same size as male. 



I collected several specimens of this fine and rare species 

 at Colon (Panama). 



189. Cyanophaia GOUDOTl, Bourc. Rev. Zool.,1843, p. 100. 

 Polytmus goudoti, Gray, Gen. Birds, Vol. i, p. 77. 



Saucerottia goudoti, Bon. Consp., Gen. Av., 1850, vol. i., 

 p. 79. 



Chalybnra goudoti, Reich., Aufz. der Col., 1853, p. 10. 

 Hylocharis goudoti, Bon. Rev. and Mag. Zool., 1854, p. 255. 

 Agyrtria goudoti, Reich., Troch. Enum., 1855, p. 7. 

 Sapphironia goudoti, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. v., p. 345. 



Lepidopyga goudoti. Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein., i860, 

 t. iii., p. 40. 



Emilia goudoti, Muls., Hist. Nat., Ois. Mou., 1875, t. \\.y 

 p. 64. 



Sapphironia luminosa, Lawr. Ann., N.Y., Lye. Nat. Hist., 

 1862, vol. vii., p. 458. 



Green-breasted Sapphironia, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. v., 

 P- 345- 



L'Emilie de Goudot, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1875, 

 • ii-, P- 65. 



