io8 Genera of Huiiiiii/ii<^ Birds. 



Genus XLIX. Gmelinius, n.g. 



Ornismyia, Lesson, Hist. Nat., Ois. Mou., Tab. lo. 



Type : T. hicolor, Gmelin. 



Bill straight, graduating to a point, slightlv longer than the 

 head. Tail slightlv forked. Rectrices graduallv longer from 

 the medium to the outermost ones, i)ointed. Wings long, 

 reaching the end of tail. Tarsi clothed. Sexes unlike. 



Habitat. — Dominica (West Indies). 



I dedicate this new genus to the memory of Gnielin. 



149. Gmelinius, bicolor, Gmel. Syst. Nat., 1788, p. 496. 



Ornismyia bicolor, Gmel. Svst. Nat., 1778, p. 496. 



Ornismyia wagleri, Less., Hist, des Ois. Mou., 1829, p. 203. 



Hylocharis wagleri, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 114. 



Caeligena wagleri, Riech., Troch. Enum., 1855, p. 3. 



Thalurania wagleri, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., p. 109. 



Waaler's Wood Nymph, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., p. 109. 



La Thaliiranie de Wagler, Muls., His. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1876, t. iii, p. 81. 



Habitat. — Dominica (West Indies) not Brazil. 



Male. — Entire head and throat deep blue, slightlv metallic. 

 Upperside dark shining green. Tail steel-blue. Tail-coverts 

 greenish-blue. Underside metallic grass-green, golden on 

 sides of breast and flanks. Wings dark purplish-brown. 

 Maxilla black. Mandible flesh colour tipped with black. 



Total length, 3|in. Wing, 2|. Tail, i^. Culmen, |. 



Female. — Upperside bronzy-green. Uppertail-coverts 

 bluish-green. Underside dull white spangled, with green on 

 the sides of breast and flanks. Outer-tail feathers tipped 

 white, rest of tail-feathers green, broadly marked with blue on 

 the terminal part. 



It is a rare species, and it is only since a short time that we 

 know with certainty that this species is not Brazilian, as all 

 former authors have constantly told us, but a native of 

 Dominica, West Indies. I think Mr. Ober, who has collected 

 largely in the West Indies, is the naturalist to whom we are 

 indebted for the exact habitat of this species. 



