38 Genera of Humming Birds. 



Festive Coquette, Grould, Mon. Troeh., vol. iii., p. 124. 



La Polémistrie de Vieillot, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 t. iii., p. 230. 



Habitat. — Brazil. 



Male. — Forehead, line under the eyes and ear-coverts metallic 

 grass-green. Upperside bronzy-green. Kump dark purple 

 crossed by a narrow pale rufous band. Throat dark glossy green, 

 the long feathers on the sides tipped white. Breast and abdomen 

 rufous- white. Flanks brown with bronze reflections. UpjDertail- 

 coverts reddish-brown. Tail bronzy-brown tipped with rufous- 

 gray. Wings purplish-black. Bill black. 



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



Female. - Upperside greenish-bronze. Eump and line across 

 as in male. Chin, line under the eyes and flanks buff. Breast 

 and abdomen black spotted with buff. A white patch near the 

 thigh as in the male. Tail bronzy-green at base, changing into 

 dark bronzy-brown, tipped with grayish-buff. 



54. Lophornis sttctolophus, Salv. and Elliott Ibis., 1873, 



p. 280. 



Bellatrix reginœ, Reich. Aufz der Col., 1853, p. 12. 



Telamon stictolophus, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 vol. iii., p. 201. 



Spangled Coquette, Gould. Mon. Troch. vol. iii., p. 122. 



Le Telamon à huppe étroite, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1876., vol. iii, p. 202. 



Habitat. — Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador. 



Male. — Crest broad, dark reddish buff, each feather tipped 

 with a green spot, the spots commencing in the centre of the 

 crown. Upperside shining-green, reddish near the yellowish- 

 white band crossing the rump. Eump and uppertail-coverts 

 reddish-brown. Throat metallic-green, beneath which is a spot 

 of white in the centre. Underside light shining-green, rufous 

 in the centre of abdomen. Undertail-coverts buff. Tail 

 brownish-chestnut, external feathers margined and tipped with 

 bronzy-green. Wings purplish-brown. Bill flesh color with 

 brown tips. 



Total length, 2f in. Wing, l^. Tail, 1-J-. Culmen, f. 



Female. — Head deep buff. Upperside bronzy-green. Eump 

 bronzy-brown crossed by a band of pale buff. Throat pale buff 

 spotted with blackish-brown. Breast and flanks bronzy-green. 



