Genera of Humming Birds. 21 



Genus XII. Myrtis, Reich, Aufz. der Colib., 1853, p. 13. 



Zephyriiis, Muls. and Verr. Class. Troch. 1865, p. 87. 



Eudosia, Muls. Cat. Ois. m. 1875, p. 32. 



Eulidia, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois. m. t. iv., p. 114. 



Type 0. Fanny, Lesson. 



Bill longer than the head, curved for its entire length. 

 Wings rather long, reaching half the length of the tail. 

 Medium rectrices short almost hidden in the coverts, the others 

 long, nearly of the same length. 



Habitat. — Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. 



31. Myrtis fanny, Less. Ann. Scien. Nat., 1838, t. ix., p. 170. 



Trochilus labrador, Bourc. Ann. Soc. Sci. Lyon, 1839, p. 339. 



Calothorax fanny, Gray, Gen. of Birds, vol. i., p. 110. 



Thaumastura fanny, Bon., Compt. Rendus, 1850, p. 383. 



Lucifer labrador, Bod., Eev. and Mag. Zool. 1854, p. 257. 



Fanny's Wood Star, Gould., Mon. Troch., vol. iii., p. 151. 



Le Myrtis de Fanny, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. m. t. iv., p. 34» 



Habitat. — Ecuador and Peru. 



Male. — Upperside light bronze-green. Throat metallic 

 bluish green with a narrow band of metallic blue, and the 

 centre luminous violet forming a good spot. White band 

 across the breast, sometimes edged with pale rufous. Abdo- 

 men and undertail-coverts dull white. Flanks bronzy, washed 

 with buff. Tail brownish-black, the median with a bronze 

 gloss. Wings brown. Bill black. 



Total length, 3f in. Wing, \\. Tail, If. Culmen, %. 



Female — Upperside bronzy-green. Throat and abdomen 

 white, the rest buff. Median rectrices shiny-green, next green 

 tipped with black. Lateral buff at base, then black tipped 

 white. Bill black. 



Size like the male excepting the tail, which is a little shorter. 



The types " Ex Coll Bourcier and Elliott " are now in the 

 American Museum of Natural History of New York. 



I have a fine series of both sexes of this species collected by 

 Buckley in Ecuador. 



*32. Myrtis yarelli, Bourc, P.Z.S., 1846, p. 45. 



Callothorax yarelli, Reich, Aufz. der Colib, 1853, p. 13. 

 Lucifer yarelli, Reich. Troch. Enum., 1855, p. 10. 



