330 GENEKA AND SPECIES. 



extensive on the outer feathers, diminishing on 

 each of them to the middle feathers, which have 

 merely the apex marked with white. The feet 

 are very strong, black, and naked. Locality: 

 New Grenada, the neighbourhood of Bogota, 

 whence Mr. Loddige's specimen was brought by 

 Mr. "Walk's. This bird differs so much in its 

 characters from the other Trochilidae, that there 

 are few species to which it approximates, except, 

 says M. Bourcier, to the Trochilus Mazeppa of 

 Lesson. The Prince of Canino evidently regards 

 the Trochilus Mazeppa as identical with Tro- 

 chilus hirsutus, although he adds a query. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1847. 



In Loddige's and Gould's cabinets. [The 

 Trochilus hirsutus is also in Mr. Gould's cabinet, 

 and an allied species, Tr. Condaminij Bourcier.] 



Genus PHAETOBNIS. 



In this genus, the beak is long and arched ; 

 the wings are moderate, the tail is greatly gra- 

 duated, the feathers composing it being narrow 

 and pointed, the two central exceeding the rest. 

 The nest is deep, silky or cottony, with a long 

 tapering point, its shape exteriorly resembling 

 that of a funnel ; it is suspended by spiders' 

 webs at the extremity of a leaf. Of this genus, 

 the Trochilus superciliosus is the typical form. 

 Twenty -four or five species are known. 



Example. Trochilus hispidus, Gould. 



In this species, all the upper surface is bronzy 



