2o6 Genera of Humming Birds. 



Saiicerottia maria, Bon., Rev. and Mag. ZooL, 1854, 

 P- 255- 



CJilorestes, mariae, Reich., Troch. Enum., 1865, p. 4. 



PanycJilora mariae, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein., i860, 

 t. iii., p. 49. 



Amazilia dumerili, Salv., Ibis., i860, p. 270. 



Eran7ia devillei, Heine, Journ. fur Ornith., 1863, p. 188. 



Deville's AmaziLi, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. v., p. 313. 



Le Pyrrhophène de Deville, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. 'Mou., 

 1874, t. i., p. 306. 



Habitat. — Guatemala. 



Male. — Head metallic green. Neck and back dark shining 

 green. Lower part of back and rump reddish-bronze. Upper- 

 tail coverts dark bluish-purple. Tail brilliant red-purple, with 

 bluish-purple tips and margins on all the feathers. Under- 

 side brilliant metallic green. Tuft of white between flanks 

 and rump. Tibiae enveloped in white down feathers. Under- 

 tail-coverts rufous with grayish edges. The base of the 

 primaries and secondaries, both above and beneath, chestnut- 

 red, rest purplish-brown. Maxilla black. Mandible flesh 

 colour with black tip. 



Total length, 3iin. Wing, 2\. Tail, i^. Culmen, ■§■. 



Female. — Exactly like the male, but not so brightly coloured, 

 lateral rectrices chestnut-purple, with a slight gray margin on 

 tips, undertail-coverts, pale brown edged with white. 



This species was discovered in Guatemala, by Delattre. 



^297. Amazilia cyanura, Gould, Mon. Troch, 1850, vol. v., 



P- 315- 



Hemithylaca cyanura^ Cab. and Hein, Mus. Hein, i860, 

 t. iii., p. 38. 



Pyrrhophaena cyanura ^ Gould, Int. Troch., 1861, p. 60. 



Blue-failed Amazili, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. 5, p. 315. 



Le Pyrrhophène cyanure, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1874, 

 t. i., p. 308. 



Habitat. — Guatemala, Nicaragua. 



Maie. — The only difference between this species and A 

 mariae, consists in the colour of the tail and upper and under- 



