ig2 Genera of Humming Birds. 



brownish-green with white margin. Maxilla black. Mandible 

 flesh colour with black tip. 



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



Female. — Unknown. 



Type of species in my collection. 



Genus LXXXII. Amazilia, Reichenback, Av. Syst. Nat., 



1849, pi. 39. 



Amazilis, Lesson, Ind. Gen. et Syn. Genr. Troch., 1822, 



p. 27. 



Amazilia, Reich., Avium. Syst. Nat., 1849, p. 39. 



AmaziliuS, Bon., Consp. Gen. Av., 1850, vol. i., p. 77. 



Pyrrhophaena, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein.,i86o,t. iii.,p.35. 



Hemythilaca, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein., i860, t. iii., p. 37. 



Hemistilbon, Gould, Int. Troch., i860,, p. 149. 



Eranna, Heine, Journ. fur Ornith., 1863, p. 187. 



Eratina, Hein., Journ. fur Ornith., 1863, p. p. 190- 191. 



Ariana, Muls. and Verr., Class. Troch., 1865, p. 36. 



Myletes, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1874, t. i., p. 284. 



Type. — O. amazili. Lesson. 



Bill longer than the head, slightly curved, broad at base, 

 graduating to an acute point. Feathers of forehead not 

 projecting on the culmen. Nostrils exposed. Wings long 

 and pointed. Tail slightly forked, outermost rectrice of the 

 same length as the middle one, the other three nearly even, 

 and longer. Tarsi clothed. Sexes nearly alike. 



Habitat. — Mexico, Central America, Tres Marias Islands, 

 Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru. 



275. Amazilia amazili. Less., Voy. Coq., 1826, pi. 31. 



Ornismya ainazili, Less., Ois. Mou., 1829, p. 27. 



Trochilus (Lampornis) amazilia, Tschud. Consp. Av., p. 37. 



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



Amazilia latirostris, Bon., Consp. Gen. Av., 1850, vol. i., 



P- 77- 



Amazilia pristina, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. v., p. 303. 



