Genera of Humming Birds. 157 



Male. — Head metallic blue. Neck brilliant green. Rest 

 of upper parts bronzy-green, changing to coppery-red on 

 rump and upper-tail coverts. Median rectriceS bronze, lateral 

 of same colour, with a blackish spot appearing 'as a sub- 

 terminal bar near the tips. These spots on the lateral 

 feathers, and the length of rectrices, are the principal differ- 

 ences which distinguish this genus frorn Cyanomyia. Under- 

 side pure white, excepting sides of neck and breast, w'hich 

 are metallic green. Sides of flanks washed with green. 

 Wings purple-brown. Maxilla black. Mandible flesh colour, 

 with black tip. 



Total length, 4in. Wing, 2f. Tail, i|. Culmen, ^. 



Female. — Head bluish. Upperside bronze-green, golden 

 on lower part of back, and coppery-red on uppertail-coverts. 

 Tail bronze, with the subterminal blackish bar more apparent 

 than in the male, and the tips of lateral rectrices slightly 

 margined with gray. Underside pure white, sides of neck 

 metallic-green, flanks golden. Wings purple-brown. Bill 

 black except base of mandible which is flesh colour. Same 

 size as male. 



It is a common species. 



225. Uranomitra cvanicollls, Gould, P.Z.S., 1853, p. 61. 



Cvanoiuvia cvanicollis Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool., 1854, 

 P- ^54- 



Leucolia cvanicollis, Muls.. Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1874, 

 t. i., p. 212. 



Blue i\ecked Azure Crown, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol., v, 

 p. 288. 



La Leucolie a con bleu, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1874, 

 t. i., p. 21 2. 



Habitat.— V^xw. 



Male. — Crown of the head, nape, and sides of neck metallic 

 blue with greenish reflections. Upperside bronzy-green pass- 

 ing to golden on rump, and uppertail-coverts. Tail bronzy- 

 green, all the laterals crossed near the tip with an obscure 

 brown band. Underside pure white, flanks white washed 

 sparingly with pale golden feathers. Wings purple-brown. 

 Maxilla black. Mandible flesh colour, with black tip. 



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



