238 Genera of Humming Birds. 



liliaceous-purple. Median rectrices rufous at base and on 

 shaft, rest bronze-green ; laterals rufous, margined and tipped 

 with bronze-green. Throat, breast, and flanks dark bronzy- 

 brown. Loral space, spot behind the eye, and centre of 

 throat rufous. A tuft of elongated feathers on the breast pure 

 white. Centre of abdomen buff. Undertail-coverts rufous. 

 Wing-coverts olive-green ; primaries and secondaries purplish- 

 brown. Shaft of first primary rufous for two-thirds of its basal 

 length. Maxilla black. Mandible flesh colour at base, rest 

 black. 



Total length, 5in. Wing, 3. Tail, 2|. Culmen, |. 



Female. — Upperside not quite so dark as in the male. 

 A band of rufous on neck. Some metallic liliaceous-purple 

 feathers on uppertail-coverts. Median rectrices rufous at 

 base, remainder bronze-green ; laterals rufous on inner webs 

 for two-thirds of their length, remainder bronzy-green. Loral 

 space and spot behind the eye rufous. Underside brownish- 

 rufous, with the centre of throat rufous. The tuft of elongated 

 feathers on breast is pale rufous edged with brown. Under- 

 tail-coverts pale buff. Underwing-coverts and shaft of first 

 primary deep rufous. Upperwing-coverts bronzy-green, pri- 

 maries and secondaries purplish-brown. Maxilla black. 

 Mandible fiesh colour at base, rest black. 



Total length, 4|in. Wing, 3. Tail, 2. Culmen, f . 



1 have two specimens, male and female, of this rare species 

 collected in Peru, by Mr. Whitely. 



This species was discovered near Cusco, by Mr. Deville. 



It was dedicated to Mr. de Castlenau, by Messrs. Bourcier 

 and Mulsant. 



338. Aglaeactis PAMELA, D'Orb and Lafr, Syn. Av., 1838, 



vol ii., p. 29. 



Hylocharis Pamela, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 114. 



Helianthea pamela, Reich., Troch., Enum., 1855, p. 6. 



Pamela's Sunbeam, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iii., p. 181. 



I'Aglaeacte de Pamela, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 t. iii., p. 19. 



Habitat. — Bolivia. 



Male. — Upperside jet-black, passing to glittering golden- 

 green on lower part of back and uppertail-coverts. Tail 



