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T[rochilus] violaceus Vieillot, Tabl. Enc. Meth., ii, 1822, 552.

T[opaza] violacea Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 110.

Trochilus (Culampis) violaceus Lesson, Index Gen. et Synop. Troch., 1832, p. vii.

(?)[Trochilus] venustissimus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 490 (based on Polytmus mexicanus cyaneus Briss. Av. 3, p. 681, n. 9; Avicula mexicana cyaneo colore venutissima Seb. Mus. I, p. 102, t. 65, f. 3; etc.).

(?)[Trochilus] cyanomelas Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 498 (based on Black and blue Humming-bird Bancr. Guj. p. 167; Latham, Syn. i, 2, p. 782, n. 50).

[Trochilus] granatinus Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 305 (based on Trochilus auratus Gmelin; Garnet-throated Humming-bird Latham, Synop., ii, 752, 9, pl. 34).

Trochilus granatinus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 350 (cites Trochilus auratus Gmelin, and Ois. Dorés, "pl. 4, de l'Hist. Colibris d'Audebert").

(?) [Trochilus] cyaneus Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 309 (based on Trochilus venustissimus Gmelin; Polytmus mexicanus cyaneus Brisson, Orn., iii, 681, 3; Le Colibri bleu Buffon, Ois., vi, 61; etc.).

(?){Trochilus] bancrofti Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 317 (based on Trochilus cyanomelas Gmelin; Black and blue Humming-bird Bancroft, Guiana, p. 167; Latham, Synop., ii, 782).

Trochilus bancrofti Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 359.

Certhia prasinoptera Sparrman, Mus. Carls., fasc. 4, no. lxxxi, 1789, pl. 81 (based on Souimanga prasinoptere Vieillot, Ois. Dor., ii, 1802, 65).

Eulampis jugularis eximius Berlepsch, Ibis, July, 1887, 294 (Nevis, Lesser Antilles; coll. Count von Berlepsch).

[Eulampis jugularis] eximius Hartert, Novit. Zool., v, 1898, 520 (crit.).

Genus COLIBRI Spix.

Colibri Spix, Av. Bras., i, 1824, 80. (Type, C. crispus Spix=Trochilus serrirostris Vieillot.)

Petasophora Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840, 13. (Type, Trochilus serrirostris Vieillot.)

Petasophorus (emendation) Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866.

[Petasophora] β. Telesiella Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colib., 1854, 13. (Type, Ornismya delphinse Lesson.)

[Petasophora] γ. Praxilla Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colib., 1854, 13. (Type, Ornismya anais Lesson, i. e., Petasophora iolota Gould.)

Telesilla (emendation) Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 27.

Delphinella "Reich[enbach]" Bonaparte, Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.), sér. 4, i, 1854, 137 (new name for Telesiella Reichenbach).

Medium-sized to large Trochilidæ (length about 100-125 mm.) mth a post-auricular tuft of violet, violet-blue, or violet-red broad and rounded, imbricated feathers, and the broad, rather long, tail metallic blue, green, or olive crossed by a subterminal band of dark metallic blue, green, black, or bronze-dusky.

Bill shorter than head to decidedly longer, straight or slightly decurved, nearly terete but slightly depressed basally; culmen rounded, but contracted at base into a narrow ridge; tomia sometimes smooth, sometimes with minute serrations near tip of maxillary tomium; mandible with a distinct longitudinal median groove