88 Genera of Humming Birds. 



^120. ZODALIA GLYCERIA, Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool, 1854, 



p. 252. 



Cometa mossai, Gould, Athen, 1853. 



Purple-tailed Comet, Gould, Mon. Troch, Suppl., p. 55. 



Sparganura mossai, Cab. and Hein, Mus. Hein, i860, 

 t. iii., p. 52. 



La Zodalie de glycère, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 t. iii., p. 284. 



Habitat. — Columbia. 



Male. — Head, back of neck, wing-coverts, back, and tail- 

 coverts shining green. Wings purplish-brown. Chin and 

 throat metallic light olive-green. Sides of neck and under- 

 surface buff with a spot of deep shining green on the tip of 

 each feather. Tail dark reddish-purple, passing into deep 

 bluish-green at the tip, except on the outer feathers where 

 the hue is so faint as to be scarcely perceptible, the outer 

 feathers also have the basal three-fourths of the shaft and the 

 outer webs buffy-white, the base of the shaft paler than the 

 web ; basal three-fourths of the shaft of next feather also 

 buffy-white. Undertail-coverts buff with a brown mark in 

 the centre near the tip. (Gould, Monog. Troch.) 



Total length, 6 in. Wing, 2\. Tail, 3^. Culmen, h. 



Female. — Unknown. 



■^121. ZODALIA CAROLI, Bourc, P.Z.S., 1847, P- 4^- 



Hylocharis caroli, Gray and Mitch, Gen. Birds, vol. i.^ 

 p. 115. 



Calliphlox caroli, Reich., Aufz. der Col., 1853, p. 12. 



Avocettinus carolus, Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool., 1854, 

 p. 256. 



Comètes caroli, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iii., p. 17. 



Polyonymus caroli, Hein. Journ for Ornith, 1863, p. 206. 



Leobia caroli, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, t. iii., 

 p. 298. 



Charte' s Comet, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iii., p. 177 



La Léobie de Charles, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 t. iii., p. 298. 



Habitat. — Peru. 



