Genera of Humming Birds. 107 



Thalurania Jclskii, Tacz. P.Z.S., 1874, p. 138. 



Black banded Wood Nymph, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. \\. y 

 p. 103. 



Tschudi's Wood Nymph, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii. p. 103. 



La Thaluranie à bande noire, Muls., Hist, Nat. Ois, Mou., 

 1876, vol. iii., p. 75. 



Jelshy's Wood Nymph, Gould, Mon. Troch, Suppl., 1886, 



P- 39- 



Habitat. — Peru, Columbia, and Ecuador. 



Male. — Head and neck bronze, rest of upperside shining 

 green. Throat emerald-green, extending to the breast, 

 bordered by a narrow black band. Shoulders and rest of 

 underside Prussian blue, under tail-coverts and tail steel-blue. 

 Wing-coverts bronze-green. Wings purple-brown. Bill and 

 feet black. 



Total length, 4^in. Wing, 2\. Tail, i-|. Culmen, |-. 



Female. — Upperside shining grass-green, bronzy on the 

 head. Underside gray. Median rectrices green, lateral green 

 with bluish tips and a very small gray tip, the two uttermost 

 ones brown at base, then bluish with gray tips. 



I have some specimens from Columbia, Ecuador, Amazons, 

 and Peru, collected by Messrs. Buckley, Whitely, and 

 Hanxwell. 



148. Thalurania boliviana, N. Sp. 



Bolivian Wood Nymph. 



La Thaluranie de Bolivie. 



Habitat. — Bolivia. 



Male. — Exactly the same in colouration as the preceding 

 species, except that the emerald of the throat does not extend 

 so much on the breast, and is not separated from the breast by 

 a black band. The colour of the breast and abdomen is 

 purplish in this species. 



Total length, 4^in. Wing, 2-|. Tail, i|-. Culmen, -|. 



Female. — Like the preceding species, but darker on the 

 underside. 



My specimens of this new species, w r ere collected in Bolivia 

 by Buckley. 

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