Generic characters. Male.—Bill lengthened, arched, and pointed; wings moderately long, and rounded at the tip; tarsi short, square, or rounded; tarsi partially clothed; feet very small; hind toe and nail short.
Threnetes leucurus
Habitat: Surinam and British Guiana
Plate 13
Threnetes leucurus
White-tailed Barbed-throat
Threnetes cervinicauda (Gould)
Habitat: Province of Quijos in Ecuador
Plate 14
Threnetes cirvinicauda
Fawn-tailed Barbed-throat
Threnetes Antoniæ
Habitat: Cayenne and the Guianas
Plate 15
Threnetes Antoniæ
Sooty Barbed-throat
Featuring all 422 illustrated species from John Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming-Birds arranged by color.