Genera of Humming Birds. 159 



feathers showing amid the blue ; back, rump, and uppertail- 

 coverts light greenish-bronze. Wings purplish. Undertail- 

 coverts pale brown, margined with white. Tail pale greenish- 

 bronze, with a subterminal black bar on lateral feathers. 

 Maxilla black, mandible flesh colour. Feet black. " Elliot 

 Synopsis, Troch., p. 205." 



Total length, 3ïin. Wing, 2. Tail, 1^. Bill, J. 



Female. — Upperparts, sides of throat, and flanks shining 

 green. Centre of throat and underparts whitish, spotted 

 with light metallic green. Tail like the male, tips of lateral 

 feathers whitish. Undertail-coverts white. Wings purple. 

 Bill like the male Feet black. 



Total length, 3 fin. Wing, 2. Tail, ij. Bill, f. "Elliot, toe. a" 



228. Uranomitra viRiDtCEPS, Gould, P.Z.S., i85o, p. 307. 



Green-headed Emerald, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. v, p. 295. 



La Leitcolie à calotte verte, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1874, t. i., p. 229. 



Habitat. — Ecuador. 



Male. — -Head and sides of neck metallic green. Upper- 

 side shining bronzy-green, passing to reddish-golden on rump 

 and uppertail-coverts. Median rectrices bronze, lateral pale 

 bronze with a subterminal bar of brown near the tips, which 

 are grayish-bronze. Throat, centre of breast, abdomen, and 

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

 washed with green. Wings purplish-brown. Maxilla black. 

 Mandible flesh colour, with black tip. 



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



Female. — -Head shining green. Upperside dull bronzy- 

 green. Tail greenish-bronze with subterminal blackish bar 

 on lateral feathers. Underside white. Sides of breast and 

 flanks sparingly washed with green. Wings purplish-brown. 

 Same size as male. 



I have a male with the head and sides of neck metallic 

 bluish-green. My specimens were collected in Ecuador, by 

 Buckley. It is a rare species. 



*229. Uranomitra taczanowsku, Sclater, P.Z.S., 1879, 



p. 146. 



Leucolia taczanowskii, Deslongch, Cat. Descr. Troch., vol. i., 

 p. 301. 



