Genera of Hu mining Birds. 97 



In some specimens, ihe blue is replaced by metallic green, 

 the two outermost ones black for half their length, then 

 metallic purple-blue. Underside of tail purpHsh-blue. Wings 

 dark brown ; a white patch on each side of lower part of 

 vent. Bill black. 



Total length, 8in. Wing, 2%. Tail, 5^. Culmen, -fi. 



Female. — Head metallic dark green. Upperside bronzy- 

 green. Throat white spotted with green feathers. Breast 

 abdomen and undertail-coverts buff. Flanks rufous washed 

 with green. Central rectrices shining-green, lateral black, 

 with outer webs and tips blue, outermost black, tipped white.; 

 White spots under and behind the eyes. Bill black. 



Total length, 4sin. Wing, 2\. Tail, i.^. Culmen, f. 



I have received a number of adult male specimens from 

 Merida (Venezuela), which have the crown of a lighter green, 

 no colour on the throat, and are golden-gr^en. The under- 

 side is quite distinct of the colour of C. gorgo. 



If it should prove a distinct species, I propose the name of 

 Cyanolesbia meridana for it. 



I have adopted the name gorgo for this species because it 

 cannot be relied upon with certaintv, on the name of T. 

 forjicatiis, L. for that bird. 



133. CvANOLESBiA COELESTIS, Gould, Mon. Troch., Intr. 



1861, p. 102. 



Ecuador Train-bearer, Gould, ]\Ion. Troch., Suppl., p. 56. 



Le Cynanthe bleu celeste, 



Habitat. — -Ecuador. 



This species, which is closely allied to the preceding, can 

 be distinguished by the colour of the underside, which is 

 coppery brown. As it is constant, I think the species is valid. 

 The specimens which I have of this species w^ere collected in 

 Ecuador by Buckley. 



134. CvANOLKSBiA MOCOA, Delatt. and Bourc, Rev. Zool., 



1846, p. 311. 



Mellisuga sniaragdinis. Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 113. 

 Cynanthus smaragdicaudus, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iii., 

 P- 173- 



Lesbia mocoa. Reich., Aufz. der Col., 1S53, p. 8. 



