Genus Myrtis Reichenb.

The bird which I have figured under the name of Calothorax Fanny is the type of the genus Myrtis, which I adopt for that beautiful bird and the C. Yarrelli, as I consider them to be a very distinct form, and one which is especially remarkable for the structure of the tail.

• 170.

  Myrtis Fanniæ

  Habitat: Ecuador and Peru

  Plate 151 Calothorax Fanny Fanny’s Wood Star

  Mr. Fraser found it at Cuenca in November, 1857, when it was “common about the gardens and lane hedgerows. It makes much more humming with its wings than the long-tailed green Lesbia.”—Proc. Zool. Soc., part xxxvi. p. 459.

• 171.

  Myrtis Yarrelli

  Habitat: Western Peru, eats the neighbourhood of Ari

  Plate 152 Calothorax Yarrelli Yarrell’s Wood-star