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hh. Only three outer rectrices cinnamon-brown^and with a sub- 

 terminal blackish band. Calliphlox bryantce, 9 • 

 ee. Under parts not cinnamon or buffy. 



/. Throat (with or without chin) shining or glittering violet-blue or 

 lilac, with the breast green, or blackish, or white, or blue like 

 the throat. 

 g. Chin dusky-green; tail dark metallic-blue. 



h. Whole crown and nape glittering green; sides of head dusky. 



Agyrtria amabilis decora, $. 

 hh. Only crown glittering; sides of head shining green. 



Agyrtria amabilis amabilis, $ . 

 gg. Chin concolorous with throat. 



h. Tail brilliant bronze. Hylocharis elicice, $ , 9 • 



hh. Tail not bronzy; breast green; tail purplish-black; throat 

 lilac. Oreopyra castanehentris calolcema, $. 



ff. Throat not blue. 



g. Throat or crown white in abrupt contrast to contiguous parts, 

 or else median line of under parts white, with more or less 

 green along sides. 

 h. Crown or throat white. 



i. Crown white, re^t of body chieflv rich claret-color. 



Microchera parvirostris , £ . 

 ii. Throat white, crown glittering blue-green, tail ashy-gray. 



Oreopyra cinereicauda, $ . 

 hh. Median line of under parts white. 



i. Bill 28 mm.; tail tipped with white, and with a violet-purple 

 spot on outer rectrix; under tail-coverts green. 



Anthracothorax prevosti prevosti, 9 • 

 ii. Bill 20 mm.; no white tips to rectrices; no purple spot; under 

 tail-coverts white. Agyrtria boucardi, 9* 



gg. Crown not white (if throat white, rest of under paits white or 

 grayish). 

 h. Bill very strongly decurved, or else upper parts brownish, with 

 a blue auricular stripe. 

 i. Bill decurved; lower parts strongly streaked with black, 

 white, and buff. Eutoxeres aquila heterura, $ , 9 • 



ii. Upper parts brownish; grayish- sooty below, centre of throat 

 glittering green (blue posteriorly); under tail-coverts cin- 

 namon-buff. Colibri delphince, $ , 9 • 

 hh. Bill normal, upper parts green (at least back and rump). 



i. Tail (except central rectrices) rich violet-purple; median 

 portion of throat blue-black. 



Anthracothorax prevosti prevosti, $ . 

 ii. Tail not violet-purple. 



j. Lower parts dirty ashy-gray (bill 23 mm.); upper tail- 

 coverts purple. 



