402 Genera of Huinming Birds. 



AlTHURUS TAYLORI, Rotsch., Ibis, 1894, p. 547-548. 



Taylor's Black Capped Hn?n?)ii}ig Bird. 



l'Ait hit re de Taylor. 



Male. — Exactly like A. poly t mus, but with a large ruby 

 coloured spot on the throat. 



/labitat. — Jamaica. 



Collector, Mr. C. B. Tavlor. 



Type in Rostchild's Museum. 



It is quite extraordinary that among the many thousand 

 skins of Ait hums sent from Jamaica to England in the last 

 years, I never saw a specimen like this. I think it may be 

 an accidental discolouring, as those mentioned in the GENERA 

 OF Humming Birds, page 320, for Petasophora corruscans 

 and rubrigularis. — (EDITOR). 



Phaethorniidae. 



GlAUCIS COLUMBIANA, n.sp. 



Colotnbian Her?nit. 



le Glaucis de la Colombie. 



Habitat. — Rio Dagua, Colombia. 



Male. — Forehead blackish, rest of underparts rich golden- 

 bronze. Central rectrices bronze-green, edged with black near 

 the tips, which are white ; lateral and outermost ones reddish- 

 chestnut at base, then black with white tips. Underparts, 

 including the tail-coverts, rich cinnamon. Wings purplish- 

 brown. Maxilla black. Mandible flesh colour with black tip. 



Total length, 4in. Wing, 2. Tail, if. Culmen, \\. 



Female. — Exactly like the male, excepting the mandible, 

 which is all black. 



Types in Boucard's Museum. 



This new species, the smallest of all, was collected this year 

 by Mr. H. W. Rosenberg. 



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