SPATHURA RUFOCALIGATA, GouM. 



Red-booted Racket-tail. 



Trochihis (Ocreatus) rufocaligatits, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, Part XIV. p. 86. 



Addce, Bourc. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 312. 



Mellisitga riifocaligata, Gray and Mitch., Gen. of Birds, Mellisuga, sp. 59. 



This new Humming-bird was procured in Bolivia by Mr. Bridges, who informed me that he found the 

 species rather numerous at Sandillani in the Yungas of La Paz, but had no opportunity of making himself 

 acquainted with its habits, for a knowledge of which, therefore, we must await the researches of some 

 future traveller : there is little doubt, however, that they will prove to be very similar to those of its near 

 allies, the Spathura Undenvoodi and S, Peruana. 



The male has the throat and forepart of the neck luminous metallic green; the plumage of the body 

 bronzy green ; wings brown ; tarsi clothed with a thick ruff of rusty red feathers ; tail brown, the outer 

 feathers prolonged and narrow, and ending in a broad spatulate tip ; bill black. 



Total length, 4^ inches; bill, |^; wing. If; tail, 1\. 



The female has the upper surface and two middle tail-feathers bronzy green, the bronzy hue predomi- 

 nating on the head and the green on the tail-feathers ; wings purplish brown ; lateral tail-feathers dark 

 blackish brown, the outer one on each side tipped with white, the remainder with a wash of bronzy green at 

 their extremities ; under surface white, spotted on the throat, the sides of the neck and flanks with light 

 bronzy green ; feathers clothing the tarsi and the under tail-coverts deep buff. 



Total length, 3| inches ; bill, f ; wing, H ; tail, li- 



The figures represent two males and two females of the natural size. 



