212 Genera of Hummijig Birds. 



Type : P. flavescens, Loddiges. 



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

 exposed. Wings long, pointed, reaching the end of tail. 

 Tail forked, rectrices wide, the middle ones shorter, lateral 

 and outermost ones gradually longer. Size large. Tarsi 

 clothed. Sexes similar in plumage. 



Range. — Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru. 



303. Panoplites flavescens, Lodd, P.Z.S., 1832, p. 7. 



Ornismya paradisea, Boiss, Rev. Zool., 1840, p. 6. 



M ellisiiga flavescens, Gray, Gen., Birds, vol. i., p. 112. 



Amazilia flavescens, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av., 1850, vol. i,p. 78. 



Boissonncaua flavescens, Reich., Troch., Enum., p. 8. 



Panoplites flavescens, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., p. iii. 



Yellow-fronted Panoplites, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., 

 p. III. 



le Panoplite flavescent, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 t- ii, P- 335- 



Habitat. — Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador. 



Male. — Crown of head and throat brilliant golden-green. 

 Upperside shining dark green. Uppertail-coverts purplish- 

 bronze. Median rectrices greenish-bronze. Laterals light 

 bufï, margined and tipped with greenish-bronze. Sides of 

 throat and breast dark green, appearing black in certain 

 lights. Flanks and abdomen green, edged with grayish buff. 

 Vent and line on sides of flanks white. Undertail-coverts 

 pale buff with light green in centre. Base of secondaries, 

 outer web of first primary, and undervving-coverts chestnut. 

 Wings purple-brown. Bill black. 



Total length, 4Hn. Wing, 3. Tail, 2^. Culmen, |. 



Female. — Like the male without the bright metallic colour 

 of head and throat, which are dark green. 



1 have specimens of this species from Columbia, Ecuador 

 and Merida, " Venezuela." 



304. Panoplites matthewsi, Bourc, P.Z.S., 1847, P- 43- 

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

 Heliodoxa matthewsi, Reich., Aufz. der Col., 1853, p. 9. 



