150 Genera of Humming Birds. 



white, washed with green. Wings purplish-brown. Maxilla 

 black. Mandible flesh-colour, tip black. 



Total length, 4m. Wing, 2\. Tail, if. Culmen, J. 



Female. — Slightly smaller, and less brilliant than the male. 



213. Agyrtria tobaci, Gmel. Syst. Av., 1788, p. 498. 



Trochilus tobagensis, Lath., Ind. Ornith., 1790, vol. i., p. 316. 



Trochilus maculatus, Vieill., Ois. Dor., 1802, t. i., p. 87. 



Ornysmia viridissima, Less., Ois. Mou., 1829, p. 207. 



Saucerottia viridipectus, Reich., Aufz. der Col., 1853, p. 7, 



Agyrtria maculata, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein., i860, t. iii., 

 P- 33- 



Thaumatias linnaei, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. v., p. 302. 



Linnaeus Emerald, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. v., 302. 



Le Thaumatias de Linné, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1874, 

 t. i., p. 248. 



Habitat. — Tobago, Trinidad, Venezuela, Guiana. 



Male. — Upperside bronzy-green. Median rectrices bronze- 

 green, lateral bronze at base passing into black, with pale 

 bronze tips. Throat and breast metallic emerald-green. 

 Centre of abdomen white. Flanks bronze-green. Under- 

 tail coverts pale greenish-bronze, margined white. Wings 

 purplish-brown. Maxilla black. Mandible flesh colour, with 

 black tip. 



Total length, 3|-in. Wing, 2. Tail, 1^. Çulmen, \. 



Female. — Same colouring as male, but not so bright. 

 Lateral feathers of tail largely tipped, with pale green-bronze. 

 Slightly smaller than the male. 



My specimens from Trinidad and Venezuela, have scarcely 

 any black on the lateral feathers of tail, and the bill is flesh 

 colour, with black tips. 



214 Agyrtria apicalis, Gould, Int. Troch., 1861, p. 154. 



Agyrtria terpna, Heine, Journ., fur Ornith., 1863, p. 184. 



Black-tipped Emerald, Gould, Mon. Troch., Suppl., 1886, 

 P- 77- 



Habitat. — Columbia. 



