Genera of Humming Birds. 383 



come to the conclusion that it is only a darker variety of 

 P. bourcieri: It is also the opinion of Count Berlepsch. 

 This rare species was dedicated by Lesson to the late Jules 

 Bourcier, a celebrated collector of Humming Birds in Ecuador, 

 where he resided many years as French Consul, and a well 

 known author on Trochilidae. 



^520. Ametrornis philippi, Bourcier, Ann. Soc. Agr. Lyon., 



1847, P- ^'^Z- 

 Trochilus filippi, Bourc, Rev. ZooL, 1847, P- 4^^- 



Orthornis de filippii, Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool., 1854, 

 p. 249. 



Ametrornis de filippi ^ Reich., Aufz. der Col., 1853, p. 14. 



De Philippics Hermit, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. i., p. 21. 



Le Phaethornis de Filippi, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1874, t. i., p. 88. 



Habitat. — Bolivia. 



Head and back bronzy-green. Uppertail-coverts shining 

 green with a subterminal dark brown bar and largely tipped 

 with dark rufous, this last colour giving the prédominent hue 

 to this part. Wings purplish-brown. Entire under parts rich 

 dark buff. The median rectrices have the base bronzy-green, 

 graduating into brownish-black with their elongated tips 

 white. Lateral and outermost ones shining bronze-green at 

 base followed with a broad black bar, and tipped with rufous. 

 Bill straight. Maxilla black. Mandible flesh-colour tip 

 brown. 



Total length, 5|in. Wing, 2|. Tail, 2|. Culmen, \\. 



" Elliot's Syn. of the H. Birds, page 12." 



I believe it is still unique in Elliot's Museum, now in the 

 American Museum of Natural History of New York. 



Genus CLIV. Milornis, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 



1873, t. i., p. 77. 



Type : T. squalidus, Temminck. 



Bill longer than the head, slightly curved, and acutely 

 pointed. Wings long and narrow, reaching nearly the tips 

 of the fourth lateral rectrice. Outermost rectrice shortest, 

 laterals gradually longer. Medians pointed with elongated 



