184 Genera of Humming Birds. 



Habitat. — San Paolo, Brazil. 



Male. — Crown of the head greenish-blue, not very brilliant, 

 but having a few conspicuous small bright blue feathers 

 intermingled ; throat and breast bright greenish-blue, passing 

 into purer green on the flanks ; back of the neck and back 

 deep grass-green ; wings purplish-brown ; uppertail-coverts 

 bronzy-orange ; undertail-coverts bronzy purplish-brown ; two 

 middle tail feathers deep purplish-bronze, the next on each 

 side is washed with bronze on its outer margin, the remaining 

 feathers purplish-black ; thighs grayish-white ; the bill appears 

 to have been reddish flesh-colour at the base of both mandibles 

 and black at the tip. 



Total length, 3fin. Wing, 2\. Tail, \\. Bill, J. 

 " Gould, loc. cit." 



I think it is still unique in the British Museum. " Type Ex. 

 Gould's Collection. " 



^■263. Chlorestes hypocyanea, Gould, P.Z.S., i860, p. 306. 



Blue-breasted Sapphire, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. v., p. 334. 



V Encéphale à poitrine bleue, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1875, t. ii., p. 36. 



Habitat. — Brazil ? 



Male. — Crown of the head, back of the neck, back, and 

 flanks somewhat dull green. Throat and breast brilliant blue, 

 passing into glittering green on the centre of the abdomen. 

 Wings purplish-brown. Uppertail-covers reddish-bronze. 

 Undertail-coverts brownish-black with bronzy tips. Tail 

 steel-black. Thighs brown. Upper mandible black. Basal 

 two-thirds of the lower mandible flesh colour, the apical third 

 black. 



Total length, 3Jin. Bill, |. Wing, 2. Tail, if. u Gould,loc.cit." 



Type of species now in the British Museum. They have 

 also a female, which resembles the female of C. caerulea. 



It looks very much the same as E. caeruleo-lavata. — Edit. 



^264. Chlorestes pyropygia, Salv. and Godm., Ibis., 189 1, 



p. 596. 



Eire rumped Sapphire, Gould, Mon. Troch., Suppl., 1886, 

 p. 92. 



