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 * T[rochilus] violaceus, Tabl. Enc. Meth., ii, 1822, 552.
 * T[opaza] violacea, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 110.
 * Trochilus (Culampis) violaceus, Index Gen. et Synop. Troch., 1832, p. vii.
 * (?)[Trochilus] venustissimus, 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, 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, Index Orn., i, 1790, 305 (based on Trochilus auratus Gmelin; Garnet-throated Humming-bird Latham, Synop., ii, 752, 9, pl. 34).
 * Trochilus granatinus, 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, 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, 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, Nouv. Dict. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 359.
 * Certhia prasinoptera, Mus. Carls., fasc. 4, no. lxxxi, 1789, pl. 81 (based on Souimanga prasinoptere Vieillot, Ois. Dor., ii, 1802, 65).
 * Eulampis jugularis eximius, Ibis, July, 1887, 294 (Nevis, Lesser Antilles; coll. Count von Berlepsch).
 * [Eulampis jugularis] eximius, Novit. Zool., v, 1898, 520 (crit.).

 Genus COLIBRI Spix.


 * Colibri, Av. Bras., i, 1824, 80. (Type, C. crispus Spix=Trochilus serrirostris Vieillot.)
 * Petasophora, List Gen. Birds, 1840, 13. (Type, Trochilus serrirostris Vieillot.)
 * Petasophorus (emendation) and, Classif. Troch., 1866.
 * [Petasophora] β. Telesiella, Aufz. der Colib., 1854, 13. (Type, Ornismya delphinse Lesson.)
 * [Petasophora] γ. Praxilla, Aufz. der Colib., 1854, 13. (Type, Ornismya anais Lesson, i. e., Petasophora iolota Gould.)
 * Telesilla (emendation) and, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 27.
 * Delphinella "Reich[enbach]", 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

