Genera of Hummincr Birds. 219 



Male. — Upperside bronzy-green passing into brownish- 

 purple on rump. Uppertail-coverts and tail silky black with 

 a purplish tinge. Throat metallic lilac-red. Behind the eye, 

 a stripe of white. Ear-coverts black. Underside dark gray 

 washed with greenish-bronze feathers on sides of throat, 

 breast, and flanks. Undertail-coverts dark bluish-bronze 

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



Total length, 4Tjin. Wing, 2^'. Tail, 2. Culmen, |. 



Female. — Upperside bronzy-green, brownish on head. Tail 

 purplish-black, laterals broadly tipped with gray. Underside 

 brownish-gray, buffy on throat. Smaller than male. 



This rare species was discovered by Delattre, and dedicated 

 by him and Lesson, to Henri Delattre, brother of the former. 



I have collected a fine series of this species in the highlands 

 of Mexico. It takes its food chiefly on the flowers of orchids 

 and bromeliacae, so common on the oak and pine trees. 



^311. Delattria MAKGARITAE, Salv. and Godm. Ibis, 1889 



p. 239. 



Margarite's Cazique, 



le Cacique de Marguerite, 



Habitat. — Omilteme, in Sierra Madre del Sur, Mexico,. 

 Pacific side. 



Male. — D. licnrici, affinis, sed gutture violaceo (nee 

 rosaceo) facile distinguenda. 



This rare species was dedicated to Mrs. Herbert Smith, by 

 Messrs. Godman and Salvin. 



Type in the British Museum. 



312 Delattria viridipallens, Bourc. and Muls., Ann. Soc. 

 Lyon., 1846, p. 321. 



Polytmus viridipallens, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 108. 



Delattria viridipallens, Bon., Consp. Gen. Av., 1850, p. 70. 



Agyrtria viridi-pallens, Reich., Aufz. der Colib, 1853, p. 10. 



Thaumantias viridi-pallens, Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool.,. 

 1854, p. 255. 



Chariessa viridipallens, Heine, Journ. fur Ornith., 1863^ 

 p. 178. 

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