Genera of Humming Birds. 185 



V Encéphale à croupion couleur de feu. 



Habitat. — Ecuador. 



Closely allied to the preceding species from which it is 

 distinguished by the metallic colour of the crown, which is 

 bluish-green. Underside shining bluish-green, the whole of 

 the middle of the throat washed with brighter blue. Lower 

 part of back russet, with the uppertail-coverts coppery- 

 reddish. Wings dusky. Tail steel-black, slightly rounded. 



Total length, 3^in. Wing, i T 9 -g-. Centre tail feathers, \\. 

 Outer ones, 1. Bill, T 9 6 . 



Type of species in British Museum. 



^265. Chlorestes subcaerulea, Elliot, His., 1874, p. 87. 



Blue-breasted Sapphire, Gould, Mon. Troch., Suppl., 1886, 

 p. 92. 



V Encéphale à gorge et cou bleus, Muls., His. Nat. Ois. 

 Mou., 1875, t. ii., p. 35. 



Habitat. — Brazil ? 



Male. — Upperpart of head and back dull green, rest of 

 back and upper-tail coverts dark green, with a rufous tinge 

 dispersed all over these parts ; throat, breast, and centre of 

 abdomen beautiful metallic caerulean-blue ; flanks shining 

 grass-green. Lower part of abdomen covered by fluffy-white 

 feathers. Undertail-coverts metallic green. Wings purple. 

 Tail bluish-black. Maxilla black ; mandible yellow (in life 

 possibly red), for its entire length, save the tip which is black. 

 Feet brownish black. Thighs buffy-white. 



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

 u Elliot, loc. cit." 



Type unique in Elliot's Collection, now the property of 

 the New York Museum of Natural History. 



*266. Chlorestes (?) scapulata, Gould, Int. Troch., 1861, 



p. 166. 



Black-bellied Sapphire, Gould, Mon. Troch. Suppl., p. 91. 



r Encéphale à epaulettes, Muls. Hist. Ois. Mou., 1875, 

 t. ii., p. 34. 



Habitat. — Guiana ? 



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



