286 Genera of H tiniming Birds. 



Habitat. — Colombia. 



Male. — Crown of the head and underside brilliant metallic 

 emerald-green. Upperside dark green, bronzy on neck and 

 uppertail-coverts. Median rectrices purplish-bronze, next 

 one bluish-black margined and tipped with purplish-bronze, 

 remainder of rectrices bluish-black. In the centre of the 

 throat a good spot of metallic blue. Abdomen and flanks 

 dark shining golden-green. Undertail-coverts dark green, 

 sometimes edged with grayish-white. Wings purple-brown. 

 Bill black. Vent and line on sides of flanks white. 



Total length, 5in. Wing, 3. Tail, 2\. Culmen, |-. 



Female. — Forehead metallic green. Upperside bronzy- 

 green on neck. Four median rectrices bronzy-green, re- 

 mainder bluish-black tipped with white. Underside white 

 with the tips of all the feathers bright green. Centre of 

 abdomen grayish-buff, rest like the male. 



Total length, 4;\in. Wing, 2-g-. Tail, 2. Culmen, |-. 



Young males have a line beneath the eyes and lores, 

 reddish-buff. 



I have a fine series of this species from Colombia. 



402. Heliodoxa JAA-iesoni, Bourc, Compt., Rend., 1851, 

 t. xxvii., p. 187. 



Coeligena janiesoni, Reich., Aufz. der Colib., 1853, p. 7. 



Leadbeatera janiesoni, Bon. Rev. and Mag. Zool., 1854, 

 p. 251. 



Jameson' s Brilliant , Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., p. 95. 



r Heliodoxe de Jameson, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois. J\Iou., 1876, 

 t. ii., p. 205. 



//rt'/^//c?/.— Ecuador. 



Male. — Closely allied to the preceding species, but has 

 only the front and a narrow line on the crown metallic green, 

 the tail is bluish-blue in its entirety, and the glittering part of 

 the underside is not so dark. 



Total length, 5|in. Wing, 3!;. Tail, 2%. Culmen, i. 



Female. — Exactly like that of H. jacnla. 



Total length, 4|-in. Wing, 2%. Tail, 2. Culmen, i. 



I think that Professor Jameson, of Quito, is the discoverer 

 of this species. It was dedicated to him by Bourcier. 



My specimens were collected in Eicuador, by Buckley. 



