Genus Sternoclyta Gould

Generic characters.

Male.—Bill unusually large, rather arched, and much longer than the head; wings ample; tail moderate and rounded; tarsi partly clothed; feet moderate; throat and breast luminous.

Female.—Unadorned.

Three outer tail-feathers tipped with white in both sexes.

• 67.

  Sternoclyta cyaneipectus (Gould)

  Habitat: The province of La Guayra in Venezuela

  Plate 58 Sternoclyta cyaneipectus Blue-breast

  • Polytmus cyanopectus, Gray & Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 108. Polytmus, sp. 22.
  • Sternoclyta cyanipectus, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 13, note.