Genera of H umming Birds. 2og 



Phaeolema, Gould, Mon. Troch., 1858,!. iv., pi. 268. 

 Type : T. rubineus, Gmelin. 



Bill stout, straight, longer than the head. Nostrils covered 

 by frontal plumes. Wings long, pointed, reaching the end of 

 tail. Tail slightly forked, median rectrices shorter, laterals 

 very slightly and gradually longer. Tarsi partly clothed. 

 Hind toe and nail shorter than fore toe and nail. Sexes 

 unlike. I have united the Genus PHAIOLAIMAto ClytolaemA 

 being unable to see any difference between them. 



Habitat. — Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador. 



299. Clytolaema rubinea, Gmel. Syst. Nat., 1788, vol. i., 



P- 493- 



Trochilus obscurns, Gmel. Syst. Nat., 1778, p. 495. 



Trochilus ruficaudatus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. vol. xxiii.,p. 422. 



Ornismya rubinea, Less. Ois. Mouch., 1829, p. 146. 



Mellisuga rubinea, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 112. 



Heliomaster rubineus, Vieill. Ois. Dorés., pi. 27. 



Heliodoxa rubinea, Reich., Aufz. der Colib, 1853, p. 9. 



Calothorax rubineus, Burm. Th. Bras., 1856, vol. ii., p. 340. 



Brazilian Ruby, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iv., p. 249. 



le Clytolème rubis-émeraude, Muls., Hist. Nat., Ois. Mou., 

 1876, t. ii., p. 228. 



Habitat. — Brazil. 



Male. — Forehead brilliant metallic green, terminating in a 

 point on the crown. Rest of crown and nape bronze-green. 

 Rest of upperside reddish-golden. Median rectrices bronze 

 with a line of rufous along the shaft of external web, termin- 

 ating gradually before reaching the tips. Laterals deep chest- 

 nut tipped and margined on external webs with blackish 

 bronze-green. Throat metallic ruby-red appearing black on 

 chin in certain lights. Spot behind the eye white. Breast 

 and sides of neck shining metallic emerald-green. Abdomen 

 and flanks dull golden-green, showing the gray base of 

 feathers. Undertail-coverts golden-green edged with rufous. 

 Wings purplish-brown, base of inner webs of secondaries 

 rufous. Bill black. 



Total length, 4fin. Wing, 2\. Tail, 2. Culmen, f. 



