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.
Heliodoxa jacula (Gould)
Habitat: New Granada
Plate 94 Heliodoxa jacula Green-crowned BrilliantFeaturing all 422 illustrated species from John Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming-Birds arranged by color.