I04 Genera of Hum mi no- h'/rt/s. 



142. 'I'hai.vr.wia Fanniak, Bourc. ;uul Del., Rev. Zool, 1846, 



p. 310. 



Thai ura Ilia verticeps, (jould, jard. (Vjntr. Ornith., 1851, 

 p. 107. 



Ricordia verticeps, Reich., Autz., der Col., 1853, p. 8. 



CJiloristes verticeps, Reich., Troch., Enum., 1855, p. 4. 



Thaliirania eryphile. Elliot. Syn. Hum. Bird, 1879. p. 10 1. 



Green-crowned Wood-Nvmpli, (iould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., 

 p. 107. 



La Thalitranie ervpliilc. Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 t. iii., p. 68. 



La Tlialiiranie de Fanny. 



Habitat. — Ecuador and Columbia. 



Male. — Exactly like the preceding specie's, excepting the 

 metallic emerald green of throat, which extend over the breast 

 as in T. Coluinhica, the color of the shoulder, abdomen, and 

 flanks which is shining Prussian blue, with greenish reflections, 

 especially in lower part of abdomen, and the undertail-coverts 

 whieli are steel blue, fringed with gray. Bill black, feet flesh 

 color. 



Totallength, 4in. Wing, 2|. Tail, \\. Culmen, ^. 



Female. — Upperside shining green. Throat and breast 

 gray. Flanks and abdomen darkish gray, strongly washed 

 with shining green feathers. Undertail-coverts white. Tail 

 blue with white tips on outermost rectrices. 



My specimens of this species were collected by Bucklev in 

 Ecuador. It is not common. 



143. Thalura.ma hypochlora, Gould, P.Z.S., 1870, p. 104. 



Citado Wood-Nymph, Gould, Mon. Troch., Suppl. 1S86, 

 p. i>'^. 



La Thalnranie hypochlorc, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1876, t. iii, p. 66. 



Habitat.— Y^c\\?i^ox. 



Male. Mead and underside, metallic emerald - green. 

 Upperside shining grass-green. Wing-coveris and shoulders 

 metallic blue. Undertail-coverts white with dark blue in 

 centre and tip. Tail steel-black. Wings bluish-black. Bill 

 black. P'eet flesh color. 



Total length, 37;iin. Wing, 2\. Tail, i^. Culmen, ^. 



