Genera of Humming Birds, 89 



Male. — Crown, wing-coverts and uppersurface dull greenish- 

 bronze, becoming of a greener cast on the lower part of back 

 and uppertail-coverts. Wings purplish-brown. Four middle 

 tail feathers bronzy-green, the remainder black, with violet 

 reflections, the outer one with a stripe of dull or buffy-white 

 along the apical portion of the outer web. Behind the eye a 

 small white spot, and a small streak of buff from the angle of 

 the mouth. Throat red. Undersurface pale bronzy-green, 

 each feather sliorhtlv fringed with p-rav. On each flank near 

 the back a tuft of white. Vent and undertail-coverts buffy- 

 white, with a streak of brown down the centre of each feather. 

 Bill black. 



Total length, 5|-in. Wing, 2j. Tail, 2. Culmen, f. 



" Gould, Mon. Troch." 



Genus XLIV. Sappho, Reich., Syst. Av., 1849, p. 40. 



Cyiianthiis, Tschud, Consp., 1844, p. 36. 



Comètes, Gould, P.Z.S., 1847, P- 3^- 



Sappho, Reich., Syst. Av. Natur., 1849, P^- A^- 



Sparganura, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein., i860, t. iii.,p. 5^. 



Polyonymus, Heine, Journ for Ornith, 1863, p. 206. 



Leobia, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, t. iii., p. 297. 



Type : Sappho sparganura, Shaw. 



Bill longer than the head, slightly arched. Tail brilliantly 

 coloured and deeply forked. Rectrices very wide, round at 

 tips. Throat metallic. Tarsi naked. Hind toe and nail 

 nearly as long as middle toe. Sexes unlike. 



Habitat. — Columbia, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentine Republic. 



122. Sappho sparganura, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii., p. 291. 



Trochiliis chrysurus, Cuv. Regn. Anim., 1829, t. i., p. 426. 



Ornismya sappho, Less, Ois., Mouch., 1829, p. 105. 



Orthorhyjîchtts chrysurns, d'Orb. and Lafr., Syn. Av., 1838, 

 p. 26. 



Mellisuga sparganura, Gray, Gen. Birds, 1844, vol. i., 

 p. 113. 



Comètes sappho, Gould, P.Z.S., 1847, P- 3^- 



Lesbia sparganura, Bon., Rev. Zool., 1854, p. 252, 



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

 t iii., p. 52. 



