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us acquainted with a second species in his Jolema frontalis. Both these birds inhabit the

New York, has made
and forests bordering the River Napo.

eastern slopes of the Andes of Ecuador

Vol. IT. Pl. 99.

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106. loLaMA FRONTALIS, Lawr.

Habitat. The head-waters of the Napo.
Vol. II. Pl. 93.

107. loLaMa ScHREIBERSIL . °

Habitat. The forests bordering the Upper Rio Negro and the Napo.

The species composing the Andean genera to which the names of Heliodoxa and Leadbeatera have been given,

are all truly beautiful birds. They are of large size, and have certain parts of their plumage more than usually re-

splendent,—so much so, indeed, that no bird has yet been found which equals them in this respect. From Vene-

zuela and New Granada on the north to Bolivia in the south, the various members of these genera find a congenial

habitat.
Genus Hetiopoxa, Gould.
("HXwos, sol, et d0€a, gloria.)
Generic characters.
Male.—Bill longer than the head, straight and cylindrical; wings long and pointed ; tail ample and forked ;

tarsi clothed ; feet small; hind toe shorter than the middle one; nails feeble; centre of the throat blue, surrounded

by brilliant green.
Female.— Unadorned.
108. Hexiopoxa sacuLa, Gould. : : . : : ; ; ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ Vol. II. Pl. 94.
Coeligena jacula, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pl. 688. fig. 4522.
Heliodoxa jacula, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 22.
Habitat. New Granada.

109. Hexiopoxa JAMESONI . : : j ; : ‘ s : : i : ; Vol. II. Pl. 95
Habitat. Ecuador.

Hitherto I have entertained the opinion that the H. jacula and the Leadbeatera grata were of the same form;
but upon further consideration I now believe them to be distinct ; and as the former is the type of my genus Helio-
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doxa, I retain that of Leadbeatera for the other.

Genus LeapBeaTera, Bonap.

f this form I possess three v istinct birds. which mj;
Of this form I possess three very distinct birds, which might be considered by some persons as one and the
same, but in this opinion I cannot agree: the LZ. Otero from Bolivia, and the L. grata are too unlike to be considered

otherwise than as separate species ; while the third, which is from Venezuela, is allied to the Bolivian bird rather
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than to that from New Granada.

110. LEADBEATERA OTERO.
Heliodoxa Otero ; ; i :
: : : . : : . : 2 : : Vol IT. Pl. 96.
Coeligena Otero, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p. 3, pl. 689. figs. 4523-24
Heliodoxa Otero, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 29. note

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Leadbeatera sagitta, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. Didi
Coeligena sagitta, Reichenb. ib. p. 23; Id. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pl. 689. fie. 4
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Heliodoxa sagitta, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p: 22 ee Hee ae

Habitat. Peru and Bolivia.
111. LEADBEATERA SPLENDENS, Gould.

Centre of the crown brilliant blue, bordered on each side with jet-bl
purplish brown; two centre tail-feathers | tl : ith jet-black ; upper surface bronzy green; wings
: tre taul-leathers bronzy, the remainder black ‘
| | J ack ; under-surface glitteri : r tal
coverts olive-grey; bill black; feet dark brown oe
Total length, 51 inches; bi 53; Wing 27 |
| at ; 61 nes; bill 1+; wing 2¢; tail 2+; tarsi 1,
Habitat. Venezuela.

This species is very nearly allie
| I | y nearly allied to the Leadbeatera Otero, but it differs in having a strai :
Bi rave viidercurics ving a straighter and shorter bill,