Genera of Humming Birds. 22^ 



Breast luminous bluish-green. Flanks and abdomen shining 

 green. Vent rufous. Undertail-coverts green, edged with 

 rufous. Wings purplish-brown. Bill black. 



Total length, 5in. Wing, 2f. Tail, 2^. Culmen, |. 



Female. — Coloured like the male, but not so brilliant, the 

 luminous feathers of forehead are of a lighter green. The 

 throat is dark green, appearing brownish-black in certain 

 lights, with the centre metallic bluish-violet, the lower part of 

 the abdomen and undertail-coverts rufous with the centre of 

 feathers green. 



Total length, 4|in. Wing, 2\. Tail, 2\. Culmen, \. 



This fine species was discovered in Ecuador by Mr, 

 Warszewicz, to whom we are indebted for many new species 

 of humming birds, chiefly from Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, 

 Veragua, etc. Being sufficiently distinct in generic forms 

 from Heiiotrypha, I have made with it a new genus, w^hich I 

 have named Warszewiczia, in memory of that eminent Collector 

 and Naturalist. 



Genus XCII. Heliotrypha, Gould, Int. Troch., 1861, 



p. 131. 



Parzudakia, Reich., Aufz. der Colib., 1853, p. 12. 



Heliotryphon, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein., i860, t. iii., 

 p. 74. 



NODALIA, Mulsant, Cat. Ois. Mou., 1875, p. 23. 



Helymus, Muls., Cat. Ois. Mou., 1875, p. 23. 



Type : T. exortis, Frazer. 



Bill straight, slender, about the length of the head. Wings 

 long, nearly reaching the end of tail. Tail long and forked. 

 Rectrices broad and rounded at tips, median shortest, lateral 

 and outermost ones gradually longer. Tarsi partially clothed. 

 Hind toe shorter than the middle one. Sexes unlike. 



Habitat. — Colombia and Ecuador. 



320. Heliotrypha exortis, Eraser, P.Z.S., 1840, p. 14. 



Ornis?nya parzudaki, Long, and Parz., Rev- Zool., 1840, 

 p. 72. 



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



