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Genera of Hii7nming Birds. 



Habitat. — Colombia. 



Male. — Crown of the head and underside brilliant metallic 

 emerald-green. Upperside dark green, bronzy on neck and 

 uppertail-coverts. Median rectrices purplish-bronze, next 

 one bluish-black margined and tipped with purplish-bronze^ 

 remainder of rectrices bluish-black. In the centre of the 

 throat a good spot of metallic blue. Abdomen and flanks 

 dark shining golden-green. Undertail-coverts dark green, 

 sometimes edged with grayish-white. Wings purple-brown. 

 Bill black. Vent and line on sides of flanks white. 



Total length, 5in. Wing, 3. Tail, 2^. Culmen, -|. 



Female. — Forehead metallic green. Upperside bronzy- 

 green on neck. Four median rectrices bronzy-green, re- 

 mainder bluish-black tipped with white. Underside white 

 with the tips of all the feathers bright green. Centre of 

 abdomen grayish-buff, rest like the male. 



Total length, 4iin. Wing, 2^. Tail, 2. Culmen, |-. 



Young males have a line beneath the eyes and lores^ 

 reddish-buff. 



I have a fine series of this species from Colombia. 



402. Heliodoxa JAMESONI, Bourc, Compt., Rend., 185 1, 



t. xxvii., p. 187. 



Coeligena jamesoni, Reich., Aufz. der Colib., 1853, p. 7. 



Leadbeatera jamesoni, Bon. Rev. and Mag. Zool., 1854,. 

 p. 251. 



Jameson^ s Brilliant, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., p. 95. 



l' Héliodoxe dejameson, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 t. ii., p. 205. 



Habitat. — Ecuador. 



Male. — Closely allied to the preceding species, but has 

 only the front and a narrow line on the crown metallic green, 

 the tail is bluish-blue in its entirety, and the glittering part of 

 the underside is not so dark. 



Total length, 5tii">- W^ing, 3^. Tail, 2|. Culmen, i. 



Female. — Exactly like that of H. jaciila. 



Total length, 4^in. Wing, 2f. Tail, 2. Culmen, i. 



I think that Professor Jameson, of Quito, is the discoverer 

 of this species. It was dedicated to him by Bourcier. 



My specimens were collected in Ecuador, by Buckley. 



