Genera of Humming Birds. 243 



Genus XCVIII. Engyete, Reich., Syst. Av., 1849, p. xi. 



Type : E. alinae, Bonrcier. 



Bill straight, slender, longer than the head, nostrils 

 exposed. A bright metallic spot on forehead. Wings long, 

 pointed, reaching the end of tail. Tail forked, rectrices 

 narrow, pointed at tips, brilliantly coloured. Median shorter, 

 laterals and outermost ones gradually longer. Upper surface 

 similarly coloured. A large white patch on breast. Tarsi 

 clothed. Tuft on anal region black. Sexes nearly similar. 



Habitat. — Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. 



343. Engyete alinae, Bourc, Ann. Soc. Agr. Lyon, 1842, 



P- 343- 

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

 Eriopus alinae, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av., 1850, vol. i., p. 80. 

 Encryetc alinae, Reich., Aufz. der Col., p. ix. 

 Metallic Puff-leg, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iv., p. 280. 



r Eriocnemis d' Aline, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 t. iii., p. 31. 



Habitat. — Colombia, and Ecuador. 



Male. — Upperside shining grass-green. Forehead luminous 

 green. Underside, excepting a white spot on centre of breast, 

 brilliant metallic green. Tarsal tufts white. Wings purplish 

 brown. Bill black. 



Total length, 3fin. Wing, 2. Tail, if. Culmen, \. 



Female. — Slightly tinged with more white on breast, and 

 throat. 



I have two specimens marked, Delattre, Panama, with the 

 forehead patch and all the underside of the most^brilliant 

 golden-green, quite different from the Colombian and Ecua- 

 dorian specimens ; but I consider them as only a variety of 

 colouration. I bought them at Bourcier's sale, and one of them 

 is probably the type of the species. 



This pretty species was dedicated by Bourcier to his wife. 



My specimens from Ecuador, were collected by Buckley. 



