Genera of Humming Birds. 393 



Habitat. — Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. 



Male. — Upperside bronzy-green, darker on head, and with 

 a rufous tinge all over. Uppertail-coverts bronze, broadly- 

 edged with rufous. Tail bronze, medians tipped with white, 

 lateral and outermost ones narrowly tipped with buff. Line 

 over and behind the eye, and one from maxilla passing under 

 the eye pale buff. Auriculars black. Throat and breast 

 grayish-buff, paler in the middle of breast, dark buff on 

 abdomen and flanks. Undertail-coverts buff. Wings purplish- 

 brown. Maxilla black. Mandible flesh-colour from base to 

 half its length, rest black. 



Total length, 3{Tin. Wing, i^. Tail, if. Culmen, |-. 



Female. — Slightly paler in colouration. 



This species was discovered at Tospam, near Cordoba, by 

 myself and Salle during our joint voyage in Mexico, and was 

 dedicated to me by Gould. 



It is this species which is abundant in the forests near 

 Tospam and elsewhere, and which perch on the low branches 

 of bushes near the ground. In the breading season the male 

 is perched near the nest of its mate and sings to her during 

 the best part of the day. 



Genus CLVI. Anisoterus, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1873, t. i., p. 72. 



Type : T. pretrei, Less, and Delattre, Rev. Zool., 1839, p. 20. 



Bill much longer than the head, slightly curved, broad at 

 base and rather stout, terminating in a sharp point. Wings 

 moderately long reaching between the second and third lateral 

 rectrices. Outermost rectrice very short, the next slightly 

 longer, the third longer, the fourth six-eighths of an inch 

 longer with elongated round tips, the medians also six-eighths 

 of an inch longer than the fourth. The length of the third, 

 fourth and median rectrices distinguishes this genus from the 

 preceding ones. Nostrils exposed. 



Habitat. — Brazil, Venezuela and Columbia. 



536. Anisoterus gounellii, Boucard, H. Bird, 1891, vol. i., 



p. [7. 



Phaetornis goiinellei, Boucard, H. Bird, 1891, vol. i., p. 17. 



Goitnelle's Hermit. 



