Genus Aphantochroa Gould

Generic characters.

Male.—Bill stout, rather longer than the head, and slightly arched; wings broad and moderately long; tail square and moderately large; tarsi clothed; hind toe rather short.

Sexes alike in the sombre colouring of the plumage.

• 62.

  Aphantochroa cirrhochloris

  Habitat: Brazil

  Plate 54 Aphantochroa cirrhochloris Sombre Humming-bird

  • Campylopterus campylostylus, Burm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 329. 2.
  • Aphantochroa cirrochloris, Reich. Aufz.der Col.p.15; Id. Troch. Enum.p.12; Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 14.
• 63.

  Aphantochroa gularis (Gould)

  Habitat: Banks of the Napo

  Plate 55 Aphantochroa gularis Puce-throated Humming-Bird

Supplemental

• Aphantochroa hyposticta Spotted-breasted Humming-bird