

Order II. PASSERES. 



Tribe II. Tenuirostres. 



Family III. Trochilims. 



The second Subfamily, 



TROCHILINiE, or Curved- billed Humming-Birds, 



have the Bill more or less long, slender, and curved ; the lateral margins usually dilated, and over- 

 lapping the lower mandible ; the nostrils basal, with the opening covered with a large scale, which is 

 sometimes entirely concealed by the projecting plumes : Wings long and pointed : the Tail more or less 

 long, and of various forms : the Tarsi very short : the Toes long and slender, with the lateral ones 

 united at their base ; the hind toe long, and armed with a more or less lengthened curved claw. 



Polytmus Briss* 



Bill more or less long, slender, and curved, with the culmen slightly keeled at the base, and then 

 rounded to the tip, which is acute ; the base broad ; the frontal plumes projecting partly over the 

 nostrils ; the lateral margins dilated over the lower mandible ; the nostrils basal, with the opening- 

 covered by a large prominent scale. Wings generally long and pointed, with the first quill the longest ; 

 sometimes the first three quills are enlarged near their base. Tail generally long, broad, and mostly 

 rounded. Tarsi very short, slender, and partly clothed with plumes. Toes rather long, very slender ; 

 the inner toe rather longer than the outer, both united at their base, especially the latter ; the hind toe 

 long, and furnished with a moderate curved claw. 



The species of this division are found in the central and warmer portions of America. 



1. P. largipennis (Bodcl.) PI. enl. 672. f. 2., Ois. dor. t. 5. 21., 

 Less. Ois. Mouch. t. 34., Swains. Zool. 111. pi. 130, 131., Nat. 

 Libr. xiv. pi. 34. — Trochilus campy lop terus Gmel. ; T. latipennis 



<^ Lath.; T. cinereus Gmel ; Typej>f Campylopterus Swains. (1827). 



2. P. ensipennis (Swains.) Zuol. Illustr. pi. 107., Less. Ois. 

 Mouch. t. 35., Troch. t. 46, 47. 



3. P. lazulus (Vieill.) Ency. Meth. p. 557., Gal. des Ois. t. 



179 Trochilus falcatus Swains. Zool. Illustr. pi. 83., Less. Ois. 



Mouch. t. 36. 



4. P. cirrochloris (Vieill.) N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiii. p. 430. 

 — Trochilus campylostylus LiclU. ; Ornismya simplex Less. Ois. 

 Mouch. t. 33., Suppl. t. 6. 



5. P. rufus (Less.) Rev. Zool. 1840. p. 73. 



6. P. Be Lattre (De Lattr. & Less.) Rev. Zool. !839. p. 14. 



7. P. pampa (Less.) Ois. Mouch. Suppl. t. 15. 



S. P. Cuvierii (De Lattr. & Bourc.) Rev. Zool. 1846. p. 310. 



9- P. rnacrourus (Gmel.) Briss. Om. iii. t. 36. f. 9. — Trochilus 

 forcipatus Lath. Less. Ois. Mouch. t. 25., Col. Suppl. t. 39., Shaw, 

 Nat. Misc. pi. 222. 



10. P. mango (Linn.) PL enl. 680. f. 2, 3., Ois. dor. t. 7; Less. 

 Col. t. 13, 13*, 14, 15., Nat. Libr. xv. pi. 20., Swains. B. of Bras. 

 pi. 27, 28. — Trochilus violicauda Bodd. ; T. albus Gmel. ; T. 

 nitidus Lath. PI. enl. 671. f. 2.; T. punctulatus Gmel. ? Azara, 

 No. 295. ; T. atricapillus Vieill. ; T. fasciatus Shaw, Azara, No. 

 296. ; T. quadricolor Vieill. ; T. punctatus Vieill. Ois. dor. t. 8. 

 11.; T. nigricollis Vieill. ? ; Type of Lampornis Swains. (1827). 



* Established by Brisson in I76O. It embraces Campylopterus of Mr. Swainson (1827), Lampornis of Mr. Swainson (1827), with 

 which Anthracothorax of M. Boie (1831) is synonymous ; Eulampis of M. Boie (1831); Petasophora of G. R. Gray (1840), with which 

 Colibri of Spix (1824) is coequal; Glaucis of M. Boie (1831); Les Emeraudes and Les Amizilis of M. Lesson (1829), and Les 

 Glaucopes of M. Lesson (1829), which with Smaragdites and Mellisuga of M. Boie (1831) are synonymous. 



