352 Genera of Humming Bij-ds. 



Male. — Exactly like the preceding species in colouration 

 and size, with the lower part of breast dark shining greenish- 

 blue, abdomen and flankb lighter green, and head dark green- 

 ish blue. 



Total length, 6^in. Wing, 3^. Tail, 4. Culmen, \. 



This rare species was discovered by Mr. H. \\'hitely, at 

 Huiro. \'alley of Santa Anna, Peru. 



Genus CXLI. Aphantochroa, Gould, :\Ion. Troch., 1852, 



vol. ii., p. 54. 

 Agapeta, Heine, Journ. fur Ornith., 1863, p. 178. 



Placophorus, Muls., Cat. Ois. Mou., 1873, p. 6. 



Type : T. cirrhochloris, Meillot. 



Bill stout, about the length of the head, very slightly 

 arched. Wings broad, long, reaching the end of tail. Tail 

 square, the rectrices of the same length and pointed at tips. 

 Tarsi clothed. Hind toe short. Sexes alike. 



Habitat. — Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador? 



476. Aphantochroa cirrochloris, \'ieill., Nouv. Diet., 



Hist. Xat., t. 23, p. 430. 



Ornisynyd simplex^ Less., Ois. Mou., 1829, p. 119. 



Polytyniis cirrochloris^ Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 107. 



Trochilus campy lostyhis, Licht., \^erzich Doubl., p. 14. 



Canipylopteriis cirrochloris^ Bon., Consp. Gen. Av., 1850, 

 vol i, p. 71. 



Sombre Humming Bird, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., p. 54, 



r Aphayitochroê cirrochlore^ Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1874. vol. i., p. 140. 



Habitat. — Brazil. 



Male. — Upperside dark bronze-green. Median rectrices 

 dark bronze-green, next one darker with reddish tinge at tip, 

 the rest bronze at base changing to dark brown. Underside 

 grayish-brown washed with pale green on throat, breast, and 

 flanks. Undertail-coverts dark brown, edged with white. 

 Wings purplish-brown. Bill black. 



Total length, \V\x\. Wing, 2^. Tail, i|^. Culmen, |. 



Female. — Exactlv like the male but slis^htlv smaller. 



