ii4 Genera of Humming Birds. 



Le Chlorolampe à quene fourchue. 



Habitat. — Yucatan, Mexico. 



Male. — Crown of head golden. Upperside bronze-green. 

 Underside bright metallic green. Wings purplish-brown. 

 Tail steel-blue with a broad bluish-gray spot at tips of the 

 four central rectrices. Vent white. Bill flesh colour with 

 black tips. 



Total length, 3-fin. Wing, i-|. Tail, i-|. Culmen. \. 



Female. — Upperside shining green with bronzy reflections, 

 especially on the head. Underside gray with green feathers 

 on sides of breast and on flanks. Vent white. Wings bluish- 

 black. Median rectrices green at base, rest steel-bluë, lateral 

 green at base, then steel-blue with grayish tips, outermost 

 bluish-black, with gray in the middle internally, and a large 

 white tip. 



Total length, 3-Jm. Wing, ij-. Tail, i-|. Culmen, \. 



My specimens were collected by Mr. Gaumer in Yucatan. 



158. Chlorolampis caniveti, Less. Ois. Mouch, 1829, 



pp. I74-I77- 

 Hylocharis caniveti, Gray, Gen., Birds, vol. i. p. 114. 



Thaumatias caniveti, Bon., Consp., Gen., Av., 1850, vol. i., 

 p. 78. 



Riccordia caniveti, Reich. Aufz. der Colib., 1853, p. 8. 



Sporadinus caniveti, Bon. Rev. and Mag, Zool., 1854, p. 224. 



Chlorestes caniveti, Reich., Troch., Enum, 1855, p. 4. 



Chlorolampis caniveti, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein., t, iii., 



P- 47- 



Canivet's Emerald, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. v. p. 351. 



Le Chlorolampe do Canivet, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1875, t. ii., p. 82. 



Habitat. — Mexico. 



Male. — Crown metallic gold. Upperside bronzy-green. 

 Underside metallic golden-green, with greenish reflections on 

 throat and breast. Wings, purplish-brown. Tail, bluish-black. 

 All the feathers with grayish tips, but more conspicuous on the 

 three median. Maxilla flesh colour for half its length, rest 

 black. Mandible flesh colour with black tips. 



Total length, 3fin. Wing, i|-. Tail, i\. Culmen, ^ 6 . 



