. A manual of North American birds [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 306 k\ NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. grayish, at tip and base, blue-black in middle portion Chlorostilbon} â C. Middle tail-feathers bronzy; females and young males without grayish base or tip to outer tail-feathers Sporadinus.* Tail less than three-fourths as long as wing, variously shaped, but never forked for more than one-fourth its length; adult males vari- ously colored, but never entirely green, beneath, i*. Lower parts pure white, the sides sometimes green, or spotted with green; sexes alike. /. Exposed
. A manual of North American birds [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 306 k\ NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. grayish, at tip and base, blue-black in middle portion Chlorostilbon} â C. Middle tail-feathers bronzy; females and young males without grayish base or tip to outer tail-feathers Sporadinus.* Tail less than three-fourths as long as wing, variously shaped, but never forked for more than one-fourth its length; adult males vari- ously colored, but never entirely green, beneath, i*. Lower parts pure white, the sides sometimes green, or spotted with green; sexes alike. /. Exposed culmen decidedly more than half as long as tail; top of head usually metallic blue or violet. Uranomitra.* f. Exposed culmen not more than half as long as tail; top of head never blue or violet Agyrtria.* i*. Lower parts never pure white. /. Tail bright bluish sreen or greenish blue, crossed near end by a broad band of blue-black. Breast and sides of head deep blue; throat brilliant green, the centre of each feather darker; sexes alike; wing Petasophora.^ f. Tail not bluish green, etc. k^. Feathering of forehead extended forward as far as anterior end of nostrils, and partly or en- tirely covering the scale ove* nostrils. * Chlnroitilbon Gould, Mon. Troch. pt. v. 1853. Type, Trovhilus pvcherani BouRC. & MuLS. (Threo spcoies in Mexico, one in Porto Rico, and about six in South America.) > Sporadinui , Rov. ot Mag. Zool. 1854, 255. Typo, Trochilut riccordi Qert. (One species in Haiti, one in Cuba and Saharaas, and apparently one peculiar to Bahamas.) » Uranomitra Rkicb., Auf/.. der Colib. 1853, 10. Type, Trochilua francim Bounc. & MuLS. (Four species in Mexico, opj in Hondurn!<, one in Colombia, and one in Peru.) * Agyriria Reich., Troch. Enum. 1855, 7. Type, Trochit:t» breviroitn's Less. (Two Mexican ond numerous South American species; some of the latter with lower parts mostly green; one of the former with bufly or rufouM belly and flanlc
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