Genus Amazilia Reichenb.

The members of the genus Amazilia, as restricted, are all of somewhat large size, and are easily recognized, each of them having well-marked characters. There is but little difference in the outward appearance of the sexes. The equatorial regions of the Andes are their head-quarters; and it is there that we find the A. pristina, the A. alticola, the A. Dumerili, and the A. leucophea. These four species, I consider, form a very natural section.

• 338.

  Amazilia pristina

  Habitat: The neighbourhood of Lima in Peru

  Plate 303 Amazilia pristina Amazili

  • Phaëthornis Amazili, Jard. Nat. Lib. Humming-Birds, vol. ii. p. 152.
  • Pyrrhophaena Amazilia, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 35.
• 339.

  Amazilia alticola (Gould)

  Habitat: The high lands of Central Peru; the precise locality uncertain.

  Plate 304 Amazilia alticola Mountain Amazili
• 340.

  Amazilia Dumerili

  Habitat: Ecuador, on the coast in the neighbourhood of Guayaquil, and on the Isle of Puna. Found also at Babahoyo by Mr. Fraser, who states that the bill is red with a black tip.

  Plate 305 Amazilia Dumerili Dumeril’s Amazili

  • Pyrrhophaena Dumerili, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p 36. note.
• 341.

  Amazilia leucophæa (Reichenb.)

  Habitat: Southern Peru. Collected in the vicinity of the Volcano of Arequipa by M. Warszewicz.

  Plate 306 Amazilia leucophæa White-breasted Amazili

  • Pyrrhophaena leucophaea, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii p. 35.

Supplemental

• Amazilia graysoni Grayson’s Amazili
• Amazilia cupreicauda Copper-tailed Amazili
• Amazilia iodura White-vented Amazili
• Amazilia lucida Elliot’s Amazili
• Amazilia warszewiczi Warszewicz’s Amazili
• Amazilia elegans Elegant Amazili