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CALLIPHARUS NIGRIVENTRIS.

Black-bellied Humming-bird.

Bupherusa mgrwentris, Lawrence, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1867, p. 232.—Salvin, Proe. Zool
Soe. 1870, p. 210.—Mulsant, Hist. Nat. Oiseaux-Mouches, i. p. 270 (1874).

Polytmus nigriventris, Gray, Mand-list of Birds, i. p. 188, no. 1702 (1869).

Eupherusa (Clotho) mgriventris, Mulsant, Cat. Oiseaux-Mouches, p. 9 (1875).

Thaumatias nigriventris, Sclater & Salvin, Nomenclator Av. Neotr. p. 92 (1878).

Callipharus mnigriventris, Elliot, Synopsis of the Humming-Birds, p. 211 (1878).—Eudes-
Deslongchamps, Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 330 (1880).

 

Tue subject of the present article is an inhabitant of Central America, where it is found from Costa Rica
to Veragua in the State of Panama. It was discovered in the former country by Mr. Endres, who procured
the male; but Mr. Arcé subsequently found the species on the Cordillera del Chucu in Veragua, and
obtained both sexes, the female being described by Mr. Osbert Salvin for the first time in 1870.

The following description of the two sexes is copied from Mr, Elliot's ‘ Synopsis ”:—

« Male. Forehead and entire under surface jet-black, occiput and upper surface bronzy green. Four
central rectrices purplish black, three lateral ones pure white tipped with brownish black. Wing-coverts
bronzy green; secondaries chestnut at their bases, the tips purple. Vent and under tail-coverts white,
bill and feet black. Total length 3% inches, wing 2, tail 15, culmen 3.

«« Female. Upper surface bronzy green ; under surface greyish white, washed on the Hales mith green,
ark grass-green, the remainder white. Maxilla and apical half of mandible black,

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Four median rectrices d
basal half of latter flesh-colour. Total length 3} inches, wing 13,

The figures im the Plate, which represent two males and a fe
Salvin and Godman.

tail 14, culmen 2.”

male of the natural size, have been drawn

from specimens lent to us by Messrs.

rR. B. S.J