Genera of Humming Birds. 359 



Male. — Top of head dark shining green. Head and neck 

 glittering metallic green. Rest of upperside glittering green, 

 darker on the uppertail-coverts. Tail shining dark purplish- 

 blue with some greenish-bronze along the inner web of 

 median rectrices ; this bronzy part does not reach the tips. 

 Throat and breast dark metallic blue passing to glittering 

 dark green with blue reflections in certain lights on the lower 

 part of breast, abdomen and flanks. Undertail-coverts shining 

 green passing to greenish-blue on lower part. Wings 

 purplish-brown. Bill black. 



Total length, 5 Jin. Wing, 2%. Tail, 2. Culmen, i. 



The above description was taken from a splendid specimen 

 in my collection. 



Female ? — Upperside shining green. Tail steel-blue. 

 Underside gray. 



This splendid and very rare species was discovered by Mr. 

 Simons in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, in 1879, at 

 an altitude, between 4,000 and 15,000 feet. 



■^^485. Saepiopterus villavicencio, Bourc, Compt. Rend., 

 vol. xxxii, p. 187. 



Heliomaster villavicencio, Reich., Aufz.derColib.,i853,p. 13. 



Campylopteriis splendens, Lawr., Ann., N.Y., Lye. Nat. 

 Hist., 1858, vol. vi., p. 262. 



Villavicencio'' s Sabre-wing, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., p. 47. 



Le Ca^npyloptcre de Villavicencio, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. 

 Mou., 1874, vol. i., p. 130. 



Habitat. — Rio Napo (Ecuador). 



Male. — Top of head metallic golden-green. Upper parts 

 and flanks dark green. Wings purplish-brown. Throat deep 

 metallic purplish-blue. Under surface dark greenish-gray. 

 Median rectrices dark green, remainder steel-blue. Bill black. 



Total length, 5|in. Wing, 2%. Tail, 2\. Culmen, i. 



Female ? — Top of head metallic golden-green. Upper 

 parts golden-green. Under surface ashy-white. Tail like that 

 of the male but with the lateral feathers tipped with grayish- 

 white. Maxilla black. Mandible flesh colour. " Elliot's 

 H. Syn. Birds, p. 270." 



It is one of my desiderata. 



