Genera of HuiiiDiiiig Birds. 2gg 



in which it is forked in the males. Throat and crown, or crown 

 alone metallic. Sexes unlike. 



Type: Floricola, Elliot, Syn., Troch., 1879, p. 82. 



Range. — Mexico to Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazilia^ 

 Paraguay, Guiana and Trinidad. 



Genus CXXII. Heliomaster, Bon., Compt., Rend., 1850, 



p. 382. 



Calliperidia, Reich., Aufz. der Colib., 1853, p. 12. 



Callopistria, Reich., Bon., Ann. Sc. Nat., 1854, p. 37. - 



Type. — T. furcifer, Shaw. 



Bill long, slender, straight, about twice the length of the 

 head. Wings narrow, reaching the end of second median 

 rectrices. Tail deeply forked, rectrices narrow, median 

 shortest, lateral and outermost ones gradually longer, outer- 

 most one longest. Sexes unlike. 



Habitat. — Brazil and Paraguay. 



416. Heliomaster furcifer, Shaw., Gen. Zool., vol. viii.,. 



p. 280. 



Trochilus caudacuttis, Vieill., Nouv. Diet., Hist. Nat., 1817, 

 P- 347- 



Heliomaster regis, Schreib., Naturfors., Wien., Sept., 1832. 



Ornisniya angelae, Less. lUust., Zool., 1833, pi. 45. 



Heliomaster angelae, Bon., Compt. Rend., 1850, p. 382. 



Ornithomya angelae, Bon., Rev. and Mag., Zool., 1854, p. 

 251. 



Campylopterus inornatus, Burm., Reise., durch. Plata., 

 Staat., 1861, p. 447. 



Callipedia regis, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, t. ii., p. 

 278. 



Angela Star-throat, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iv., p. 263. 



la Callipedie d'Angele, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 t. ii., p. 279. 



Habitat.— ^r?iz\\ and Paraguay. 



i/rt'/t'.— Head brilliant metallic silvery-green. Upperside 

 shining golden-green, mixed with shining metallic green 

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