278 Genera of Humming Birds. 



lateral and outermost ones very slightly and gradually longer. 

 Tarsi bare. Sexes alike. 



Habitat. — Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. 



392. BOURCIERIA PRUXELLEI, Bourc. and Muls., Ann. Soc, 



Agr., Lyon, 1843, P- 36- 



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



Homophania prunelli, Reich., Aufz. der Colib., 1853, P- ^o. 



Coelicrena prunelli, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol', iv., p. 257. 



Lampropycria prunelli, Gould, Int. Troch., 1861, p. 137. 



Pilonia prunelli, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, t. iii., p. 4. 



Prunelle's Coeligene, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iv. p. 255. 



la Pilonie de Prunelle, Vl\x\s., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 t. iii., p. 5. 



Habitat. — Colombia and Ecuador. 



Male. — Head black with a bronzy-greenish gloss. Neck 

 black with a bluish gloss. Upperside black, but when seen from 

 behind it is brilliant metallic purplish-red passing to golden on 

 rump. Uppertail-coverts bluish-purple. Tail purplish black. 

 Underside purplish-black. Centre of throat metallic bluish- 

 green. A broad white patch on each side of breast. Shoulders 

 brilliant metallic silverv-blue. Undertail-coverts bronzv-black 

 fringed with white. Wings purple. Bill black. 



Total length, 5fin. Wing, 3^. Tail, 2^. Culmen, \\. 



Female. — Coloured like the male, but not so black. Lateral 

 and outermost rectrices with tips slightly margined with dark 

 gray. 



This species was dedicated to Doctor Prunelle by Messrs. 

 Mulsant and Bourcier. 



I have one specimen from Ecuador, collected by Buckley. 



393. BOURCIERIA ASSIMILIS, Elliott, Ibis., 1876, p. 56. 

 Elliot's Inca, Gould, Mon. Troch. Suppl., 1886, p. 26. 

 Coeligène semblable. 



Male. — Exactly like the preceding species, excepting the 

 colour of throat, which is metallic purple. 



I don't consider it as a species, having received in the same 

 box, and from the same locality, specimens coloured like this 

 mixed with the others. 



