Old female.—Crown of the head metallic bluish green, with a bronzy lustre ; wings purplish brown, the
spurious wing glossed with green ; the central tail-feathers and the outer webs of the four next on each side
grass-green; the inner webs of these lateral feathers white, deepening into green at the tip of the outer
webs, under surface white with a spangle of shining green at the end of each feather of chin, throat, and
flanks, the spangles being (in consequence of the smaller size of the feathers) most numerous on the chin ;
under tail-coverts white with green centres.
The young female is like the old female; but she has no glittering feathers on the crown.
AYLONYMPHA MACROCERCA, Gould,


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HYLONYMPHA MACROCERGCA, Gow.
Great Forked-tailed Humming-bird.
Hylonympha macrocerca, Gould, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1873, vol. xii. p. 429.—Elliot,


Synopsis of the Trochilidee, p. 79.—Mulsant, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, tom. iii.
