Genus Juliamyia Bonap.

The member or members, as the case may be, of the genus Juliamyia, stand quite alone and apart from all the other small Humming-Birds, and bear the same relationship to the Eucephalæ that the Sphenoproctus Pampa does to the Campylopteri. Some of the specimens of this form have brilliantly glittering crowns; in others this part of the head is dull-coloured; while the plumage of the body is alike in all.

These differences have sadly perplexed me for many years; but, after a very careful and minute examination of a great number of examples from various localities, I believe I shall be right in regarding the brilliantly coronetted bird as distinct from its dull-crowned ally, and in adopting Lesson’s name of Feliciana, believing that his description of the bird he has so called has reference to it.

• 378.

  Juliamyia typica

  Habitat: New Granada

  Plate 337 Juliamyia typica Juilamya

  • Coeligena Juliae, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p. 3, pl. 681. figs. 4494–95, and pl. 763. fig. 4767.
  • Damophila Juliae, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 40.
• 379.

  Juliamyia Feliciana

  Habitat: Ecuador

  No illustrations

  Mr. Fraser states that at Babahoyo this species is “not very common, and only found in the deep bush, where it feeds on the tops of good-sized trees,” and that in Esmeraldas it was “taken catching flies among the Cacao plantations. In October common everywhere; in December rare.” “Irides hazel; upper mandible black; lower red, with black tip.”—Proc. of Zool. Soc. 1860, pp. 283, 296.

  • Ornismya Feliciana, Less. Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 433.
  • Hylocharis Feliciana, Gray & Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 114, Hylocharis, sp. 27.

Supplemental

• Juliamyia feliciana Felicia’s Humming-bird