Genera of Humming Birds. 45 



Wings purple brown. Bill black. In some of my specimens 

 the upperside is reddish golden. 



Total length, 4-in. Wing, If. Tail, 2. Culmen, \. 



Female. — Upperside greenish-bronze. A white band across 

 the rump. Throat white, spotted dark brown, centre black. 

 Breast, flanks and lower part of abdomen whitish, tinged with 

 green feathers, centre of abdomen blackish-brown washed with 

 golden feathers. Tail short, dark gray, tipped with purplish- 

 black and edged with white. Bill black. A small buff line at 

 base of bill. 



Total length 3 in. 



There is a slight difference of coloration between the speci- 

 mens from Guiana and Brazil ; but I don't think it is enough to 

 separate them. 



FAMILY III. CEPHALELOPIDAE. 



or Family of Crowned Humming Birds. 



Body moderate, sometimes very minute as in the genus 

 Mtcrochera. Bill short slender and straight, serrated at tips 

 in the genus Chrysolampis. Feathers projecting on the culmen, 

 especially so in the genera Bellona and Chrysolampis, in 

 which they cover about half the length of the maxilla. Head 

 crowned and brilliantly coloured. In the genus Cephalolepis one 

 or two black elongated feathers projecting from the crown getting 

 beyond half the length of the body. In some genera, the throat 

 is also brilliantly coloured. In the extraordinary and marvellous 

 genus Loddigesia the outermost rectrices terminates suddenly 

 with a broad rounded spatule, and the two posteriors undertail- 

 coverts are very long, narrow, and pointed, longer than the 

 whole body. Wings long, nearly reaching the end of fail. Tail 

 rounded, excepting in the genus Loddigesia. Sexes unlike. 



Type: Cephalolepis, Lodd, P.Z,S., 1830, p. 12. 



Genus XXI. Cephalolepis, Lodd, P.Z.S., 1830, p. 12. 



Smaragdites, Reich. Syst. Av. Nat., 1 849, p. 40. 



Orthorhynehus, Burm. Th. Bras., 1856. 



Type : T. delalandi, Vieillot. 



Bill straight, mandible curved upwards at tip. Nostrils hidden. 

 Head crested, from the centre, spread one or two long narrow 



