TOPAZA. — HELIODOXA. 4:19 



Mr. Llojal Price, Avriting ou the Nests and Eggs of some 

 Guiana Birds, remarks (Timehri (2) v. p. 64) : — " The King 

 Humming-bird (^Topaza jyellci) is fairly common in parts, espe- 

 cially in some of the smaller creeks, where the nests, made of a 

 soft yellow spongy substance, will be seen fastened to the vines 

 and creepers which overhang the water. The eggs are, like the 

 former, white." 



Mr. Beebe (Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 325) gives the 

 following note : — " A Lono-tailed Hummino-bird which uncon- 

 cernedly searched the undersides of leaves for insects. . . . Its 

 nest was hung on the side of the tip of a tooroo frond." 



Genus HELIODOXA Gould. 



Heliodoxa Gould, P. Z. S. 1849, p. 95. Type H. jaciila Gould. 



The members of this genus are fairly large birds for the family ; 

 the bill is of medium length, straight and rather stout ; the wings 

 are long, reaching almost to the tip of the tail when closed ; the 

 tail is also long and deeply forked. 



2%'i. Heliodoxa xanthogenys. 



Yellow-cheeked Brilliant. 



(Plate VIII. figs. 1, 2.) 



Heliodoxa xantliogonys Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1S82, p. SO (Mcruiue 

 Mts.) ; Whitelv, Ibis, 1884, p. 357 (Roraima) ; Salviii, Ibis, ISSo, 

 p. 4.33 (lloraima); id. Cat. B. Brit. Mas. xvi. p. 321, 1892; 

 Hartert, Tierreich, Troch. p. 123, 1900; Brabourne & Chubb, 

 B. S. Amer. i. p. 127, no. 1233, 1912. 



Xantho(jcni/x salvini d'Hamonv. Bull. See. Zool. France, viii. p. 7S, 

 1883 (Mount lloraima). 



Adult male. General colour above and below dark green, very 

 bright and o;litterin<j green on the throat and middle of the crown, 

 with a snuiU patch ot violet on the middle of the throat ; sides of 

 crown and tail-feathers bronze-black ; flight-feathers brown. 



Total length 105 mm., culmen 17, wing G3, tail 35. 



The male from which the description is taken was collected by 

 I\Ir. McConnell at Moinit Roraimu in October 1.S98. 



Adult female. DiH'erd from the adult male ia being palci- grciii 



Note. — Agajxln Heine, 1<S(»3, is pre-occupicd in ( 'oleoplera. 

 We |)ropose Agapetornis with vi. ijnlarls (<<uuld) a.s Ihc Ivpe. 



2 i; 2 



