io6 Genera of Hiiunnni'^ Birds. 



Habitat. — Guiana and I'pper Amazons. 



Male. — Head dull green, black in certain lights. Upper 

 part of back, breast and abdomen brilliant purple, some- 

 times brilliant blue with purplish reflections. Rest of back 

 grass-green. Uppertail-coverts bronzy-green. Tail blue- 

 black. Throat luminous grass-green. Wings purplish-black. 

 Bill black. 



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



Female. — Upperside grass - green, bronzy on the head. 

 Underside grayish-white. Median rectrices green, lateral 

 gray at base, then bluish-black, tipped white. 



Total length, 3.\in. Wing, i|. Tail if. Culmen f. 



Rather abundant in Guiana and Upper Amazons. I have 

 put T. furcatoiih's 2l% a synonym, as I cannot see in what thev 

 differ. ■ 



146. Thali;rania refl'lgens, Gould, P.Z.S., 1852, p. 9. 

 Refulgent Wood-Nymph, Gould, Aion. Troch., vol. 2, p. 102. 

 La Thaluranie resplendissante. 



Habitat. — Trinidad ? 



Male. — Exactly the same as the preceding species, but 

 slightly larger, especially the tail, which is deeply forked. 

 Some are brilliant purple, others are purplish-blue. Wing- 

 coverts metallic purplish-blue. 



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



Female. — Upperside grass-green, bronzy on head. Central 

 rectrices bronze-green with black tips, lateral pale bronze at 

 base, then bluish-black, tipped white. 



Total length, 3fin. W^ing, 2^. Tail, i^. Culmen, ^. 



Type of female in my collection. 



I have received many specimens of this species, said to 

 come from Trinidad ; but I am doul)tful about the locality. 



147. THALURAXIA NIGROFASCIATA, (jould., P.Z.S., 1846, 



p. 89. 



Polytmus nigrofasciatus, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 108. 

 Saucerottia viridipectus, Reich., Aufz. der Col., 1853, p. 7. 

 Coeiigena nigrofasciata, Reich., Troch., Enuni., 1855, p. 3. 

 Thahirania tschudii, Gould, P.Z.S., i860, p. 312. 



