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and abdomen brilliant metallic coppery-red. Wings dark 

 purple. The tail has the median rectrices bronze. The laterals 

 are dark purple tinged with green on the outer webs. Under- 

 tail-coverts, reddish-bronze, margined with white. Bill black. 

 Feet brownish-black. 



Total length, 4iin. Wing, 2f. Tail, 2. Bill, i. 



'' Elliot's Syn. of H. Birds, page 58." 



The type of this most beautiful species is unique in the 

 British Museum. " Ex. Gould Coll.'' 



Genus CXVIII. Sternoclyta, Gould, Int. Troch., 1861, 



P- 57- 

 Type : S. cyanopectus, Gould. 



Bill long, stout, rather arched, and much longer than the 

 head. Wings long and pointed, reaching near the end of tail. 

 Tail moderate, and forked, rectrices rounded at tips, median 

 shortest, lateral and outermost ones slightly and gradually 

 longer. Tarsi partly clothed. Sexes unlike. Size large. 



Habitat. — Venezuela. 



411. Sternoclyta cyanipectus, Gould, P.Z.S., 1846, p. 88. 



Polytmus cyanopectus, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 108. 



Lampornis cyanopectus, Bon., Consp., Gen. Av., 1850, p. 72. 



Saepiopterus cyanopectus, ^Qich.., Aufz. der Colib., 1853, p. 

 II. 



Campylopterus cyanopectus, Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool., 

 1854, p- 250. 



Blue-breast, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., p. 58. 

 la Poitrine bleue. 

 Habitat. — Venezuela. 



Male. — Upperside dark grass-green, spot on forehead 

 brilliant golden-green. Median rectrices dark bronze-green, 

 purplish at tips, lateral and outermost ones purplish-brown, 

 the two outermost ones tipped with white internally. A 

 white spot behind the eye. Ear-coverts dark-green. Throat 

 brilliant metallic emerald-green. Breast brilliant metallic 

 blue, with purplish reflections, and encircled with dark green, 

 appearing almost black in certain lights. Flanks dark green. 

 Abdomen grayish-buff, washed with green. Undertail-coverts 



