144 Genera of Humming Birds. 



breast dark sapphirine-blue. Bill flesh colour with black tips. 

 It differs in size according to specimens. Wings purple. A 

 tuft of white feathers on each side of lower part of vent. 

 Total length, 3-fin. Wing, 2-J. Tail, i^. Culmen, J-. 



Female. — Underside grayish-white. Chin rufous. Breast 

 speckled, with a few bright blue feathers. Rectrices purple- 

 bronze, lateral tipped with white. Rest of plumage like that 

 of male. 



201. HYLOCHARIS GUIANENSIS, Boucard, H. Bird, vol. i., p. 52. 

 Guiana Sapphire. 



I ' Hylochare de Guyane. 



Habitat. — Guiana. 



Differing from the preceding species by the darker colour 

 of upperside, and the median rectrices which are coppery- 

 green, instead of reddish-bronze. 



Total length, 3-g-in. Wing, 2. Tail, \\. Culmen, J-. 



This species was discovered by Henry Whitely, in British 

 Guiana. Types in my Collection. 



202. HYLOCHARIS BRAZILIENSIS, Boucard, Hum. Bird, 1893, 



vol. iii., p. 7. 



Brazilian Sapphire. 

 V Hylochare du Brésil. 

 Habitat. — Rio, Brazil. 



Male. — Upperside shining green, golden on back. Median 

 rectrices bronze with purplish reflections, lateral chestnut, 

 edged with purplish-black. Chin rufous. Throat and breast 

 metallic greenish-blue. Flanks and abdomen golden-green. 

 W T ings purple. Bill flesh colour with black tips. 



Total length, 3iin. Wing, 2. Tail, i-|-. Culmen, -§-. 



I have only one fine adult male specimen of this new 

 species, which differs considerably from the two preceding 

 ones by the colour of throat and breast, and the golden 

 colour of general plumage. 



Type in Boucard's Museum. 



203. Hylocharis CYANEA, Vieill., Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 



t. xxiii., p. 426. 



Ornismya bicolor f Less., Ois. Mou., 1829, p. 161. 



