AGYRTRIA BARTLETTT.

Bartlett’s Emerald.

Thaumatias bartletti, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soe. L866) p. 94 ==Scl ke SalveeiNionmere leat
Neotr. p. 92 (1873).—Mulsant, Hist. Nat. Oiseaux-Mouches, i. p-. 255 (1874).—
Elliot, Ibis, 1878, p. 53.

Agyrtria bartletti, Elliot, Synopsis of the Humming-Birds, p. 205 (1878).
p. 403 (1884).

 

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Tuts species was discovered by Mr. Edward Bartlett on the Lower Ucayali River in Eastern Peru. It
belongs to the same section of the genus Agyrtria as A. neglecta, having, like that species, the throat and
upper part of the breast blue, but it differs fron: it in having a blue-black tail.

The following is the original description :—

“Crown of the head, nape, and back deep grass-green, changing to bronzy green on the upper tail-coverts ;
throat and chest rich blue; flanks green; centre of the abdomen greyish white; under tail-coverts bronzy
brown, margined with grey; tail bluish black, the upper surface of the two central rectrices washed with
green, and the four outer feathers on each side obscurely tipped with grey in those specimens which,
according to Mr. Bartlett, are females ; wings deep purplish brown ; upper mandible brownish black ; under
mandible flesh-colour ; feet dark brown.

“Total length 3% inches, bill 1, wing 23, tail 14, tarsi 2.

We are indebted to Messrs. Salvin and Godman for the loan of a male specimen, from which the three

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figures in the Plate have been drawn.

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