3IO Genera of Humming Birds. 



Bill straight, wedge shaped at tip, shorter than the head. 

 Wings long, reaching nearly the end of tail. Tail rounded, 

 rectrices broad, outermost one shortest, lateral and median 

 ones slightlv and gradually longer. Tarsi partially clothed. 

 Feet small, hind toe and nail shorter than middle toe and 

 nail. Sexes similar in plumage. 



Habitat. — Colombia and Ecuador. 



425. Schistes GEOFFROVI, Bourc. and AIuls., Ann. Soc. Agri. 



Lyon., 1843, t. iv., p. 37. 



Petasophora geoffroyi, Gould, P.Z.S., 1847, P- 9- 



Polytimis ^eoffroyiy Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 108. 



Colibri geoffroyi, Bon., Consp. Gen. Av., 1850, vol. i., p. 6g. 



Geoffroy^ s Wedge-bill, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iv., p. 218. 



le Schiste de Geoffroy, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 t. iii., p. 155. 



Habitat. — Colombia. 



Male. — Crown, upper part of back, and wing-coverts, 

 bronze-green, coppery on neck, on lower part of back, and on 

 uppertail-coverts. Median rectrices bronze. Laterals bronze- 

 green at base, with a broad subterminal bar dark bluish-green, 

 then bronze-green margined with white at tips. Throat and 

 a small spot on each side of forehead luminous green, and 

 mingling with the green of the breast. A white spot behind 

 the eye. Ear coverts dark brown. On each side of breast a 

 tuft of metallic lilac-blue feathers, beneath which is a broad 

 band of white. Underside shining green. White tuft behind 

 the thighs. Undertail-coverts green, edged with gray. Wings 

 purplish-brown. Bill black. 



Total length, 3|in. Wing, 2^. Tail, i|^. Culmen, \. 



Female^ or male junior. — Upperside like the male. Throat 

 white, spotted with green. On each side of the breast a 

 small spot of metallic bluish-green, and under it, a narrow 

 band of white. Underside green, washed with white. Under- 

 tail-coverts pale green, margined with white. The tips of 

 lateral and outermost rectrices are more broadly margined 

 with white than in the males. 



This species was dedicated bv Messrs. Bourcier & Mulsant 

 to Mr. Isidore Geoffrov Saint Hilaire. 



