366 Genera of Humming Birds. 



Bill nearly twice as long as the head, curved, edges of 

 mandible in the male serrated near the tip, which is hooked, 

 culmen compressed at base. Mandible of female curving 

 slightly upwards near the tip, leaving an open space between 

 it and' the maxilla. Wings long and ample. Outermost 

 rectrice the shortest, the next one gradually longer, the others 

 including the medians of same length. Sexes alike. 



Habitat. — Brazil. 



496. Ramphodon n.aevius, Dumont, Diet. Sc. Nat., t. xvii, 



p. 432. 



Grypiis riificollis, Spix, Av. Bras., 1824, vol. i., p. 79. 



Ramphodon maculatum, Less., Colib., 183 1, p. 18. 



Sazv Bill, Gould, JNIon. Troch., vol. i., p. i. 



Le Grype tachete, AIuls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou.. 1873, vol. i., 



P- 34- 



le Ramphodon tachete. 



Habitat. — Brazil. 



Male. — Head dark brownish-green. Upperside dark golden- 

 green, each feather margined with dark brown, giving a scaly 

 appearance to all that part. Uppertail reddish-bronze, mar- 

 gined with blackish-brown, and edged with rufous. Median 

 rectrices reddish-bronze, darkest at the tip, next one also 

 bronze tipped with buff. Lateral and outermost ones purplish- 

 black at base and largely tipped with buff. These buff tips 

 run in an oblique direction, and are more extensive on the 

 outer webs. Chin and a line in the centre of throat black. 

 Sides of throat reddish-buff. Line behind the eye buff. Ear 

 coverts black. Underside black on the breast conspicu- 

 ously edged with white. Abdomen and flanks blackish-brown, 

 edged with buff. Undertail-coverts brownish-black in centre, 

 broadly edged with buff. Wings purplish. Maxilla black. 

 Mandible flesh colour with brownish tip. 



Total length, 6|in. Wing, 3. Tail, 2\. Culmen, i^. 



Female. — The black line of chin and throat is very narrow, 

 remainder of throat and breast reddish-buff. Rest of plumage 

 like that of the male. Size smaller. 



Total length, 4'|in. Wing, 2^. Tail, 2. Culmen, i|. 



It is a rare species in the Collections. 



