156 Genera of Humming Birds. 



subterminal bar and pale bronze tips. Throat, breast, abdomen 

 and undertail-coverts white. Sides of breast and flanks pale 

 bronzy-green. Maxilla black. Mandible flesh colour with 

 black tip. Wings purplish. 



Total length, 3^in. Wing, 2. Tail, if. Culmen, |. 



Female. — Exactly like the male excepting the tail beneath, 

 which is grayish-bronze with a subterminal blackish bar on 

 lateral feathers and very pale bronzy-gray tips. 



I have collected this species in Mexico, where it was 

 abundant. I think the typical specimen was collected by 

 Delattre. 



Genus LXVI. Uranomitra, Reich., Aufz. der Col., 1853, 



p. 10. 



Cyanomyia, Bon., Rev. and Mag., Zool., 1854, p. 254. 



Leucolia, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1874, t. i., p. 211. 



Type : T. franciae, Bourcier. 



Bill longer than the head, straight or slightly curved ; broad 

 and flat at base. Nostrils exposed. Wings long. Tail slightly 

 forked, median rectrices slightly shorter than the next, which 

 are also slightly shorter than the other two ; these are of the 

 same length. All the lateral rectrices have a subterminal bar 

 more or less apparent. Tarsi partly clothed. Forehead bril- 

 liantly coloured in both sexes, which are coloured alike. 



Habitat. — Mexico, Central America, Columbia, Ecuador, 

 Peru. 



224. Uranomitra franciae, Bourc. and Muls., Ann. Soc. 

 Agr., Lyon, 1846, t. ix., p. 324. 



Polytmus franciae, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 109. 



Agyrtria franciae, Reich., Troch. Enum., 1855, p. 7. 



Cyanomyia franciae, Bon., Rev. and Mag., Zool., 1854, p. 

 254- 



Leucolia franciae, Muls., His. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1874, t. i., 

 p. 217. 



Franciâs Azure Crown, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. v., p. 287. 



La Leucolie de Francia, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1874, 

 t. i., p. 218. 



Habitat. — Columbia, 



