388 Genera of Humming Birds. 



Bill dusky, the lower mandible whitish for the greater part of 

 its length. 



Wing, 1-20 in. Tail, 1.75. Bill, i-io. 



Type, and only specimen, male adult, collected at Chapada, 

 Matto Grosso, Brazil, by Mr. H. H. Smith. 



^527. MiLORNiS IDALIAE, Bourc. and Muls., Ann. Soc. Linn. 



Lyon., 1856, vol. iii., p. 187. 



Phaethornis obscura, Gould, P.Z.S., 1857, P- ^4- 



Pygniornis obscura, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein., 1860; 

 t. iii., p. 7. 



Phaethornis viridicaudata, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. i., 

 P- 33- 



Pygmornis aspasiae, Gould, Int. Troch., 1861, p. 47. 



Obscure Hermit, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. i., p. 38. 



Le Pygmornis d Idalie, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1874, 

 t. i., p. 91. 



Le M il or ni s d* Idalie. 



Habitat. — Brazil. 



Head dark brown above ; upper surface shining green. 

 Wings purple Bulï stripe behind the eye ; ear-coverts black. 

 Buffy-white stripe along the side of the throat. This last is 

 black becoming chestnut on the breast, dark gray on the 

 abdomen, and white on the vent. Undertail-coverts grayish- 

 white. Tail dark bronze tipped with white. Maxilla black. 

 Mandible flesh-colour, tip brownish-black. 



Total length, 3|in. Wing, if. Tail, \\. Culmen, f. 



Female. — Throat and underparts buff, palest on abdomen. 

 Tail bronze-green passing into blackish-brown with white tips. 



" Elliot's Synopsis of H. Birds, page 19." 



According to Mulsant, this species was discovered by Mr. 

 Chabrillac. 



Genus CLV. Eremita, Reich., Aufz. der Col., 1853, p. 14. 



Pygmornis, Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool., 1854, p. 250. 

 MOMUS, Muls. and Verr., Class. Troch., 1865, p. 18. 

 PygorniS, Muls. and Verr., Class. Troch., 1865, p. 17. 



