248 Genera of Humming Birds. 



undertail-coverts rufous. Outermost rectrices brown tipped 

 with white, rest brown on inner web, green on outer one. 

 Bill black. 



Total length, 3jin. Wing, if. Tail, i\. Culmen, f. 



"Elliot's Syn. of H. Birds, p. 143." 



Type of male in Elliot's Collection, now in the American 

 Museum of Natural History of New York. This rare species 

 is represented in the collection of the British Museum by 

 seven males, and three females. It is closely allied to St. 

 solstitialis. 



349. Spathura ANNAE, Berl. and Stolz. Ibis, 1894, p. 398. 

 Steganura peruana, Tacz., P.Z.S., 1874, p. 541. 

 Anna's Racket Tail, 

 la Spathure cV Anna. 

 Habitat. — Chanchamayo, Peru. 



Male. — S. addae maxime affinis, differt basibus plumarum 

 corporis inferioris fuscis, minime albis et rectricibus externis 

 cruciatis. 



Cl'^sely allied to .5". addae. 



Types in Museum Branicki, Varsovia, and in Museum 

 Berlepsch. 



^350. Spathura peruana, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iii., 

 p. 164. 



Peruvian Racket-tail, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iii., p. 164. 



La Steganure du Perou, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1877, 

 t. iii., p. 262. 



La Spathure du Perou. 

 Habitat. — Peru. 



Male. — Throat and breast metallic grass-green ; rest of 

 plumage of body bronzy-green. Wings and tail brown ; the 

 outer webs of all the lateral rectrices baonzy-green, outer 

 web of outermosts steel-blue Bill black. Tarsal tufts buff. 



Total length, 5in. Wing, if. Tail, 35. Culmen, f. 



Female. — Upper surface and median rectrices bronzy- 

 green. Under surface white spangled with green. Tarsal 

 tufts and undertail coverts buff. Outermost rectrices brown 



