Genus Phlogophilus Gould

Generic characters.

Male.—Bill straight; wings ample and rather rounded; tarsi long for a Humming-Bird, and bare; tail rather large and rounded; hind toe and nail shorter than the middle toe and nail.

The specimen from which the above characters were taken differs from every other known Humming-Bird in its more lengthened tarsi, and in the colouring of its rounded tail. The bird, which is immature, was received from the borders of the River Napo.

• 416.

  Phlogophilus hemileucurus (Gould)

  Habitat: The banks of the River Napo?

  Plate 360 Phlogophilus hemileucurus Pied-tailed Humming-Bird

  In placing this bird at the end of my Monograph of the Trochilidæ, I do not wish it to be understood that this is its proper situation. I cannot imagine what the adult will be like, and consequently cannot tell to which genus of the family it is allied; but I believe, to Adelomyia.