224 Genera of Humming Birds. 



except that the breast, when viewed from in front, is nearly 

 black, and not glittering green. 



Total length, 45in. Wing, 2%. Tail, i^. Culmen, ^. 



Young Male. — Has the plumage of the adult male, with 

 only a few metallic feathers on throat. 



1 collected a fine series of this handsome species in 1877, 

 at Navarro, Rancho redondo, and on the Volcano of Irazu, 

 Costa Rica. 



I am of the same opinion as Mr. Salvin, that it can be con- 

 sidered as a distinct species of O.calolaema , among which it 

 has been improperly mixed by myself and others. 



Genus XCI. Warszewiczia, Nov. Gen. 

 Type : H. viola, Gould. 



Bill straight, slender, shorter than the head. Feathers of 

 forehead projecting on culmen, and covering the nostrils. 

 Wings moderately long, reaching between the second and 

 third lateral rectrices. Tail long and much forked in males, 

 median rectrices broad and shortest, the two next gradually 

 longer, the third lateral, one fourth longer than the second, 

 and the outermost one twice as long as the medians. Tarsi 

 partially clothed. Sexes similar. 



Habitat. — Ecuador. 



319. Warszewiczia viola, Gould, P.Z.S., 1853, p. 61. 



Parzudulxia viola, Reich., Aufz. der Colib., 1853, p. 12. 



Heliotrypha viola, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iv., p. 241. 



Heliotryphon viola, Cab. and Heine, Mus. Hein., i860, 

 t. iii., p. 74. 



Viola Star-frontlet, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iv., p. 241. 



I'Heliotryphe violette, Muls., Hist. Nat., Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 t. iii., p. g8. 



Habitat. — Ecuador. 



Male. — Forehead luminous dark green. Upperside dark 

 shining green with golden reflections, when viewed from 

 behind. Median rectrices bronze-green, the two next bronze- 

 green on outer webs, with tips purplish-black, outermost 

 one purplish-black, with a very slightly marked green-bronze 

 tip. Throat metallic amathyst with purplish reflections. 



