Genera of Humrnincr Birds. 32 r 



Exactly like P. anais, with the centre of throat metallic 

 pink. Undertail-coverts green, edged with buff. 



Total length, 4|in. Wing, 3. Tail, 2^. Culmen, \. 



■^^439. Petasophora GERMANA, Godm. and Salv., Ibis., 1884,. 



P- 451- 



Guiana Violet-ear, Gould, Mon. Troch., Suppl., 1886, p, 

 15- 



le Petasophore de Giiiane. 



Habitat. — Roraima, British Guiana. 



P. anai affinis et ejusdem staturae, sed gula multo magis 

 caerulea ; gutture quoque toto caerulescentiore et fronte 

 caeruleo suffusa distinguenda. 



Though the difference between the present bird and 

 P. anais, of the Andes, is not great, we feel justified in separ- 

 ating them, the ranges of the two being doubtless broken by 

 the low-lying lands of the Orinocco Valley. " Godm. and Salv.'' 



Discovered by Mr. H. Whitely, in British Guiana. This 

 species looks very much the same as P. anais. — (Edit). 



440. Petasophora delphinae, Less., Rev. Zool., 1839, 



p. 44. 



Polytmus delphinae, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 108. 

 Colibri delphinae, Bon., Consp., Gen. Av., 1850, p. 69. 

 Telesiella delphinae, Reich., Aufz. der Colib., 1853, P- ^S- 

 Telesilla delphinae, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein., i860, 

 t. iii., p. 27. 



Brown Violet-ear, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iv., p. 229. 



le Petasophore de Delphine, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou. 

 1875, t. ii., p. 158. 



Habitat. — Guatemala, Veragua, Trinidad, Guiana, Colombia, 

 Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. 



Male. — Upperside dark olive-brown, greenish in specimens 

 from British Guiana, and Bolivia. Uppertail-coverts dark 

 purplish-bronze, margined with rufous. Tail bronzy-brown 

 with a subterminal dark brown band. Ear-coverts purplish- 

 blue. Throat metallic bronzy-green terminating with blue. 

 Underside smoky-brown. Undertail-coverts rufous with 

 bronzy-olive centre. Wings purplish-brown. Bill black. 



