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and Juan Fernandez, which haunts damp shady spots, is bronzy- 
green, with fiery red crown, and greyish-white under parts 
spotted with green. The female has the crown green. JF. 
fernandensis inhabits Juan Fernandez, and E. leyboldi Masafuera. 
Panterpe insignis of Costa Rica is bluish-green, with glittering 
blue crown and breast, blue-black tail, and bright scarlet throat 
shading into orange laterally. Cyanomyia verticalis of Mexico 
is brownish-green above and white below, with shining cobalt 
head and sides of the neck, and a reddish bill. The hen has a 
duller crown. Amazilia contains some thirty diverse members 
ranging from North Mexico to Peru, Guiana, Trinidad, and 
Tobago. A. pristina of Peru is greenish-bronze, with chestnut 
sides, rump, and tail, emerald throat, and white middle to the 
breast and abdomen. A. eyanura of Guatemala and Nicaragua is 
entirely green, though bluer towards the tail, and shining below. 
Cyanophaea caeruleiqularis of Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia is 
bright green, with glittering violet-blue chest. Hylocharis ranges 
from Guiana to South Brazil, 1. sapphirina being deep green, 
with bronzy rump and tail, chestnut chin, sapphire-blue throat 
and breast. The female is whitish below with httle blue. 
(5) Forms with smooth beaks.  Hutoweres, which has the bill 
curved almost into a semi-circle, was placed by Gould with Rham- 
phodon and Phaéthornis in a Sub-tamily Phacthornithinae, as 
opposed to Zrochilinae, but this has not been generally accepted. 
The sixteen or more species of Phaéthornis, extending from South 
Mexico to Bolivia and Brazil, are often termed “ Hermits” from 
their sombre tints of dull green, grey, and brown, or from their 
habit of frequenting dark forest-recesses. The tail is cuneate 
and the claws rather large. Hupetomena macrura of Brazil and 
Guiana, termed the “Swallow-tail” from its forking rectrices, has 
the two outer primaries in the male with curved and dilated 
shafts; the three outer feathers being similar in Campylopterus 
and Sphenoproctus, which range through Central America, and in 
the last case northern South America. The members of these 
three genera are denominated “ Sabre-wings.” The above species 
is green, with deep cobalt head and throat, and steel-blue tail. 
Eugenes fulgens of South Arizona, Mexico, and Guatemala is 
bronzy-green changing to black, the throat being lustrous green, 
and the crown rich violet. The female has a brownish crown, 
and greyish lower surface. . spectabilis of Costa Rica is similar. 
