Genera of HuuiDiing Birds. 299^ 



in which it is forked in the males. Throat and crown, or crown 

 alone metallic. Sexes unlike. 



Type: Floricola, Elliot, Syn., Troch., 1879, p. 82. 

 Range. — Mexico to Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazilia^ 

 Paraguay, Guiana and Trinidad. 



Genus CXXH. Heliomaster, Bon., Compt., Rend., 1850, 



p. 382. 



Calliperidia, Reich., Aufz. der Colib., 1853, p. 12. 

 Callopistria, Reich., Bon., Ann. Sc. Nat., 1854, p. 37. - 

 Type. — T. furcifer, Shaw. 



Bill long, slender, straight, about twice the length of the 

 head. Wings narrow, reaching the end of second median 

 rectrices. Tail deeply forked, rectrices narrow, median 

 shortest, lateral and outermost ones gradually longer, outer- 

 most one longest. Sexes unlike. 



Habitat. — -Brazil and Paraguay. 



416. Heliomaster furcifer, Shaw., Gen. Zool., vol. viii.,. 



p. 280. 



Trochilus caiidacutus, Vieill., Nouv. Diet., Hist. Nat., 1817, 



P- 347- 



Heliomaster regis, Schreib., Naturfors., Wien., Sept., 1832. 



OrnisDiya angelae, Less. lUust., Zool., 1833, P^- 45- 



Heliomaster angelae, Bon., Compt. Rend., 1850, p. 382. 



Ornithomya angelae, Bon., Rev. and Mag., Zool., 1854, p. 

 251. 



Campylopterns inornatiis, Burm., Reise., durch. Plata., 

 Staat., 1861, p. 447. 



Callipedia regis, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, t. ii., p, 

 278. 



Angela Star-throat, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iv., p. 263. 



la Callipedie d'Angele, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876,. 

 t. ii., p. 279. 



Habitat. — ^Brazil and Paraguay. 



Male. — Head brilliant metallic silvery-green. Upperside 

 shining golden-green, mixed with shining metallic green 

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