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rr. Median rectrices edged with cinnamon 

 towards tip (bill, 13 mm.). 



Selasphorus underwoodi, $ . 

 II. Throat whitish, each feather with a dusky or bronzy 

 spot, or else abdomen buff, with golden spots, or 

 else the chest with a blackish patch. 

 m. Throat whitish, each feather with a dusky or 

 bronzy spot. 

 n. vSpots on throat shining bronze; crown and a 

 patch below eye bronzy-black. 



Lophornis adorabihs, 9 • 

 nn. Spots on throat dusky, not bronzy, except per- 

 haps on sides of lower throat, 

 o. Flanks and under tail-coverts grayish- white; 

 no rufous on rectrices; outer ones tipped 

 with white. Trochilus colubris, 9 . 



00. Flanks and under tail-coverts cinnamon-buff; 

 rectrices partly cinnamon or rufous. 

 p. Central rectrices shining gieen. 



q. Lateral rectrices tipped with cinnamon- 

 buff. Selasphorus flammula flammula, 9« 

 qq. Lateral rectrices tipped with whitish. 



Selasphorus flammula torridus, 9 • 

 pp. Central rectrices rufous, banded with purp- 

 lish, like lateral ones. 



Selasphorus scintilla, 9 • 

 mm. Throat without dusky spots, but abdomen with 

 golden spots, or else a black pectoral patch. 

 n. Throat buff : breast golden-bronze ; abdomen 

 spotted with bronze; a white bar across rump; 

 crown greenish. Lophornis helence, 9 • 



nn. A large black pectoral patch; forehead and half 

 of crown cinnamon. Lophornis delattrii, 9 • 

 kk. Throat and lower parts variously colored; but not as 

 in (k). 

 I. Tail dark metallic-blue, without green basally, and with 

 or without prominent white tips. 

 m. Throat grayish or dirty white, immaculate. 

 n. Lower breast and abdomen shining green; 

 larger (bill, 20 mm.); under tail-coverts white. 

 Thalurania colombica venusta, 9 • 

 nn. Breast and abdomen color of throat, only sides of 

 chest and flanks greenish; smaller (bill 14-16 

 mm.); under tail-coverts white, 

 o. Bill entirely black. Chlorostilbon assimilis, 9 • 

 00. Mandible flesh-color at base. 



Chlorostilbon caniveti salvini, 9 ■ 



