Genera of Humming Birds. ' loi 



Brazilian Wood-Nymph, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., p. 99. 



La Thaluranie vlancope, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1S76, 

 vol. iii., p. 60. 



Habitat. — Brazil. 



Male. — Crown metallic deep-blue. Upperside dark grass- 

 green. Underside shining green with golden reflections. 

 Undertail-coverts shining green edged with gray. Tail steel- 

 blue. Wings bluish-black. Hill black. 



Total length, 4iin. Wing, 2-^. Tail, 2. Culmen, ■^. 



Female. — Upperside shining green. Underside gray, washed 

 with green on flanks. Median rectrices green, lateral green 

 at base, then bluish-black, tipped white. 



Common in Brazil. 



I possess one female specimen, from Costa de Beauregard's 

 collection, with the names of Oiscaii Mouche Modeste and 

 simplex upon the ticket. 



139. Thalur.\NIA Coll'MBICA, Bourc and Muls., Rev. Zool., 



1843, p. 2. 



Polytmus columbicus, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. loS. 



Coeligena colinnbica , Reich., Troch., Enum., 1855, p. 3. 



Thaliirania venusta, Gould, P.Z.S., 1850, p. 163. 



Columbian Wood-Nvmph, Could, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., 

 p. 106. 



La Thaluranie de Colombie, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1876, vol. iii., p. 64. 



Thalurania columbica , var. nigra , Boucard, H. Bird, vol. i., 

 p. 26. 



Habitat. — Costa-Rica, Veragua, Panama, Columbia and 

 Peru. 



Male. — Crown of head and a band across the back, wing- 

 coverts and abdomen, metallic ultramarine blue. Nape, back 

 and abdomen, bronze-green. Uppertail-coverts green. 'I'ail 

 bluish - black. Wings purplish brown. Throat and breast 

 shining emerald-green. Feet flesh color. Bill black. 



Total length, 4in. Wing. 2^. Tail, 2. Culmen, ^. 



Female. — Upperside golden green, more green on lower 

 part of back, and on undertail-coverts. Underside gray with 

 few green feathers on side of breast and on flanks. Median 



