Genus Heliodoxa Gould

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.

• 108.

  Heliodoxa jacula (Gould)

  Habitat: New Granada

  Plate 94 Heliodoxa jacula Green-crowned Brilliant

  • Coelhigena jacula, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pl. 688. fig. 4522.
  • Heliodoxa jacula, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 22.
• 109.

  Heliodoxa Jamesoni

  Habitat: Ecuador

  Plate 95 Heliodoxa Jamesoni Jameson’s Brilliant

Supplemental

• Heliodoxa xanthogonys Guiana Brilliant