36 Genera of Humming Birds. 



centre of abdomen. Undertail-coverts dark grey. Tail bronzy- 

 green with narrow white tips. Wings purple- black. Bill black. 



Total length, 3 in. Wing, If. Tail, If. Oilmen,! . 



Female. Upperside dark grass-green. Eump bronzy-green 

 crossed by a narrow white band. Throat, breast, and abdomen 

 rufous-white, streaked with black. Flanks bronzy-green. 

 Undertail-coverts rufous with a bronzy-green band in centre. 

 Median rectrices bronzy-green with black tips, lateral bronzy- 

 green with a subterminal black bar and greyish white tips. 

 Wings purple. Bill black. 



This magnificent species was lately discovered by the well- 

 known collector, Mr. H. Whitely, at Eoraima, British Guiana. 



I have two very fine pairs purchased from Mr. Whitely. 



51. Lophornis verreauxi, Bourc. Rev. Zool., 1853, p. 193. 



Bellatrix verreauxi, Bon. Rev. et Mag. Zool, 1854, p. 257. 



Polemistria verreauxi, Cab. and Hein. Mus. Hein., 1860, 

 t. iii., p. 63. 



Lophornis insignibarbis, Simon. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 xv., p. 17. 



Peruvian Coquette, Gould. Mon. Troch., vol. iii., p. 127. 



Polémistrie de Verreaux, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 t. iii., p. 221. 



Columbian Coquette. 



Habitat. — Columbia. 



Male.— Forehead and patch behind the eye, bright metallic 

 grass-green. Crest elongated, deep purplish-bronze, each 

 feather margined and tipped with dark green. Back and flanks 

 dark grass-green. Rump bronze-green, crossed above with a white 

 band. Throat and sides of neck pale metallic green, the long 

 feathers of neck tipped white. Centre of breast and abdomen 

 dark green with black reflections. Upper tail-coverts bronzy- 

 purple. Tail purplish-bronze with external margins bronzy- 

 green. Wing purplish-black. Bill black. 



Total length, 3± in. Wing, If. Tail, 1J. Oilmen, J. 



Female. — Head dark brown. Upperside dark grass-green. A 

 line of white on sides of throat. Throat and abdomen black, 

 spotted with pale buff. Line across the rump pale buff. Tail 

 bronze-green at base changing to blackish-brown, all the lateral 

 feathers tipped white. Undertail coverts blackish brown. Bill 

 black. 



