Genera of H umming Birds. 209 



Phaeolema, Gould, Mon. Troch., 1858,!. iv., pi. 268. 

 Type : T. rtibineus, Gmelin. 



Bill stout, straight, longer than the head. Nostrils covered 

 by frontal plumes. Wings long, pointed, reaching the end of 

 tail. Tail slightly forked, median rectrices shorter, laterals 

 very slightly and gradually longer. Tarsi partly clothed. 

 Hind toe and nail shorter than fore toe and nail. Sexes 

 unlike. I have united the Genus PhaiOLAIMA to ClytOLAEMA 

 being unable to see any difference betweeri them. 



Habitat. — Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador. 



299. Clytolaema rubinea, Gmel. Syst. Nat., 1788, vol. i., 



P- 493- 

 Trochilus obsciirns, Gmel. Syst. Nat., 1778, p. 495. 

 Trochilus riijicaudatiis, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. vol. xxiii.,p. 422. 

 Ornismva rubinea, Less. Ois. Mouch., 1829, p. 146. 

 Mellisuga rubinea, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 112. 

 Heliomaster rubineus, Vieill. Ois. Dores., pi. 27. 

 Heliodoxa rubinea, Reich., Aufz. der Colib, 1853, P- 9- 

 Calotlwrax rubineus, Burm. Th. Bras., 1856, vol. ii., p. 340. 

 Brazilian Ruby, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iv., p. 249. 



Le Clytoleme rubis-emeraude, Muls., Hist. Nat., Ois. Mou., 

 1876, t. ii., p. 228. 



Habitat. — Brazil. 



Male. — Forehead brilliant metallic green, terminating in a 

 point on the crown. Rest of crown and nape bronze-green. 

 Rest of upperside reddish-golden. Median rectrices bronze; 

 with a line of rufous along the shaft of external web, termin- 

 ating gradually before reaching the tips. Laterals deep chest- 

 nut tipped and margined on external webs with blackish 

 bronze-green. Throat metallic ruby-red appearing black on 

 chin in certain lights. Spot behind the eye white. Breast 

 and sides of neck shining metallic emerald-green. Abdomen 

 and flanks dull golden-green, showing the gray base of 

 feathers. Undertail-coverts orolden-ofreen edored with rufous. 

 Wings purplish-brown, base of inner webs of secondaries 

 rufous. Bill black. 



Total length, 4fin. Wing, 2\. Tail, 2. Culmen, -1. 



