Genera of Humming Birds. 321 



Exactly like P. anais, with the centre of throat metallic 

 pink. Undertail-coverts green, edged with buff. 



Total length, 4|in. Wing, 3. Tail, 2^. Culmen, |-. 



■^^439. Petasophora GERMANA, Godm. and Salv., Ibis., 1884, 



P- 451- 

 Guiana Violet-ear, Gould, Mon. Troch., Suppl., 1886, p. 



15- 



le Pétasophore de Guiane. 



Habitat. — Roraima, British Guiana. 



P. anai affinis et ejusdem staturae, sed gula multo magis 

 caerulea ; gutture quoque toto caerulescentiore et fronte 

 caeruleo suffusa distinguenda. 



Though the difference between the present bird and 

 P. anais, of the Andes, is not great, we feel justified in separ- 

 ating them, the ranges of the two being doubtless broken by 

 the low-lying lands of the Orinocco Valley. *' Godm. and Salv.'' 



Discovered by Mr. H. VVhitely, in British Guiana. This 

 species looks very much the same as P. anais. — (Edit). 



440. Petasophora delphinae. Less., Rev. Zool., 1839, 



p. 44. 



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

 Colibri delphinae, Bon., Consp., Gen. Av., 1850, p. 69. 

 Telesiella delphinae^ Reich., Aufz. der Colib., 1853, P- ^3- 

 Telesilla delphinae. Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein., 1860^ 

 t. iii., p. 27. 



Brown Violet-ear, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iv., p. 229. 



le Pétasophore de Delphine, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou, 

 1875, t. ii., p. 158. 



Habitat. — Guatemala, Veragua, Trinidad, Guiana, Colombia, 

 Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. 



Male. — Upperside dark olive-brown, greenish in specimens 

 from British Guiana, and Bolivia. Uppertail-coverts dark 

 purplish-bronze, margined with rufous. Tail bronzy-brown 

 with a subterminal dark brown band. Ear-coverts purplish- 

 blue. Throat metallic bronzy-green terminating with blue. 

 Underside smoky-brown. Undertail-coverts rufous with 

 bronzy-olive centre. Wings purplish-brown. Bill black. 



