434 Mr. E. Hartert — Various 



Genus loL.BMA. 

 A skin which agrees iii every respect with the type of 

 /. luminosa, Elliot, in the British Museum, is now in 

 Mr. Rothschild's collection. It is also an immature bird 

 like the type, and, like it, a trade-skin from a Bogota 

 collection. 



Genus Florisuga. 



The two species of the genus Florisuga, as accepted by 

 Mr. Salvin, differ considerably in structure, for in F. melli- 

 vora it is not the central rectrices of the male that are bluish 

 green, but the extreme upper tail-coverts, which almost reach 

 the tip of the tail; whereas in F. fusca the two middle 

 rectrices are dark green, or almost purplish, and conspicu- 

 ously shorter tiian the rest, while the upper tail-coverts only 

 reach the middle of the tail. 



In F. mellivvra the sexes are unlike, while they are alike 

 in colour in F. fusca. The beak in the latter is slightly 

 shorter in comparison with the size of the bird. It is there- 

 fore perhaps just as well to follow Boucard in keeping the two 

 generically separated. Mr. Boucard has also created three 

 new names in the genus Florisuga in its more restricted 

 sense. In Huram. B. i. p. 18, he described as a new species 

 F. sallei ; but there is no doubt that this is not a species at all, 

 but merely a more golden variety of F. mellivora, for speci- 

 mens which are exactly alike occur in Brazil, Peru, Guiana, 

 and elsewhere. The type is a not fully adult male. 



Mr. Boucard has further " proposed " the names F. guia- 

 nensis and F. peruviana ior specimens from Guiana and Peru, 

 " if they should prove distinct.'' The types of both these 

 proposed names are somewhat immature individuals of 

 F. mellivora, as shown by the greater extent of the metallic 

 dark colour and the central rectrices, otherwise they do not 

 differ at all. 



Genus Heliangelus. 



In this genus Mr. Boucard has described two remarkable 

 new species. One he has called H. henrici ; but his descrip- 

 tion appeared at the same time as Mr. Salvin's description of 



