234 Genera of Humming Birds. 



inner web of tips. Throat metallic fiery-orange-red, beneath 

 which is a band of buff. Spot behind the eye white. Line 

 under the eye, and lores dark green, almost black. Lower 

 part of breast and flanks green mottled with buff. Abdomen 

 buff. Undertail-coverts bronze, margined with buff. Wings 

 purplish-brown. Bill black. 



Total length, 4fin. Wing, 2\. Tail, \^. Culmen, f. 



Female. — Coloured like the male, but the throat is metallic 

 orange-red, only a little more than half its length, and 

 margined beneath with a broadband of bronzy-brown, appear- 

 ing black in certain lights. Under that band, a broad buff 

 band crossing the breast; lateral and outermost rectrices, with 

 tips narrowly margined with buffy-white, rest like the male. 



This extremely rare and fine species was discovered in the 

 parama of Postachuela, Columbia, by M. M. Funck and Schlim. 

 My specimens were collected in the paramo el Tambor, near 

 Merida, Venezuela, by Mr. Solomon Briceno. 



333. Heliangelus rotschildi, Boucard, Hum. Bird, i 82, 



P- 77- 

 Rotschild's Sun Angel. 



r Heliangele de Rots child. 



Habitat. — Colombia. 



Male. — Upperside, including tail, lustrous purple. Outer- 

 most rectrices slightly tipped with buff. Throat luminous 

 coppery-gold, with reddish reflections ; sides of throat silky- 

 black. Breast grayish-bufT. Centre of abdomen grayish, 

 spotted with dark bronze-green, rest of the abdomen and 

 flanks purple. Undertail-coverts white. A white spot behind 

 the eyes. Tail dark lustrous bluish-purple underside. Wings- 

 purplish-brown. Bill and feet black. 



Total length, '^%\\'\. Wing, 2\. Tail. i^. Culmen, -~. 



Female. — Unknown. 



Type : Unique in my Collection. 



Genus XCIV. Panterpe, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein.,. 

 i860, t. iii., p. 43. 



Type. — P. insignis, Cabanis and Heine. 



Bill straight, slender, about the length of the head. Nostrils 

 exposed. Wings long reaching near the end of tail. Tail 



