Genera of Humming Birds. 355 



479. Campylopterus LARGIPENNIS, Bodd., PI. Enl. d'Aubent., 



1783, pi. 672. 



Trocliiliis cinereiiS) Gmel., Syst. Nat., 1788, p. 490. 



TrocJiilus campylopterus, Gmel., Syst. Nat., 1788, vol. i., 

 p. 499. 



Trochilus latipennis, Lath., Ind. Ornith., vol. i., p. 310. 



Ornismya latipennis, Less., Ois. Mou., 1829, p. 121. 



Polytmiis largipennis. Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 107. 



Broad-shafted Sabre-win^, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., 

 p. 48. 



Le Campyloptere largipenne, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1874, vol. i., p. 120. 



Habitat. — Guiana. 



Male. — Upperside shining grass-green. Median rectrices 

 dark bronze-green, next one bronze for about half its length, 

 then bluish-black and slightly margined with white at tips, 

 the others bronze at base, then bluish-black to half their 

 length, the rest pure white. Underside dark ashy-gray, 

 sparingly washed with green on sides of neck, breast and 

 flanks. Wings shining purplish-brown. Maxilla black. 

 Mandible flesh-colour with black tip. 



Total length, 5|in. Wing, 35. Tail, 2-|. Culmen, i. 



Female. — Smaller and slightly paler in colouration, other- 

 wise exactly like the male. Lateral rectrices with scarcely 

 any bronze at base, but bluish-black for half their length, and 

 the rest white. Only very adult males have the shafts of the 

 primaries broad and flat on their basal half. I have some 

 very fine males where this peculiarity is scarcely visible. 



My fine series of this species were collected by Mr. H. 

 Whitely, in British Guiana. 



480. Campylopterus obscurus, Gould, P.Z.S., 1848, p. 13, 

 Campylopterus aequatorialis, Gould, Int. Troch., p. 54. 

 Sombre Sabre-wing, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., p. 49. 



le Campyloptere obscur. 



I cannot see any differences between this species and the 

 preceding one, and I am of the same opinion as Messrs. 

 Elliot and Mulsant that they all belong to one species. 



