274 Genera of Humming Birds. 



Habitat. — Ecuador. 



Male. — Exactly like the preceding species, \\ith the ex- 

 ception of the centre of crown which is metallic bluish-green 

 or metallic silvery-green, and the chin and throat which are 

 .brilliant metallic dark green. 



Total length, 4fin. Wing, 3^. Tail, 2^. Culmen, if. 



Female. — Crown metallic grass-green with bluish reflection. 

 Upperside dark golden-green when viewed from behind. 

 Median rectrices dark bronze-green, lateral and outermost 

 ■ones white with purplish-black tips. Throat dark shining 

 green with the centre white. Breast pure white. Abdomen 

 and flanks gray, washed with green, more so, on flanks. 

 Undertail-coverts green, margined with white. Wings 

 purplish. Bill black. 



Total length, 4Y^e-in. Wing, 2^. Tail, i|. Culmen, if. 



My specimens of this species were collected in Ecuador, in 

 1879, by Buckley. 



■^387. HOMOPHANIA INSF.CTIVORA, Tschudi, Faun., Peru, 



1844, p. 248. 



Bourcieria insectivora, Gould, Int. Troch., 186 1, p. 135. 



P HoDiophanie insectivore. 



Tschudi Inca, Gould, Mon. Troch., Suppl., 1886, p. 26. 



Habitat. — Peru. 



Male. — Head and back of neck, jet black, with the centre 

 of the crown metallic grass-green. Back, uppertail-coverts, 

 abdomen, and undertail coverts, shining grass-green. Breast 

 pure white. Wings purplish-brown, their coverts like the 

 back. Median rectrices shining grass-green, remainder pure 

 white, tipped with green, most extensive on the outermost 

 feathers. Bill black. 



Total length, 5fin. Wing, 3^. Tail, 2|. Culmen, ij. 



Female. — Entire upper parts and throat shining green. 

 Median rectrices green, rest white, tipped with black and 

 glossed with green. Rest like the male. " Elliot's Syn. H. 

 Birds, p. 76." 



Type of species in the Museum of Neuchatel. 



Type of male, "Elliot's Coll.," now in the New York 

 -Museum of Natural History. 



This species is one of my desiderata. 



