METALLURA CHLOROPOGON.

White-vented Copper-tail.

Urolampra chloropogon, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 68 (1860)
Trochilus chloropogon, Gray, Hand-list of Birds, i. p. 142, no. 1839 (1869)
Metallura chloropogon, Elliot, Synopsis of the Humming-Birds, p. 164 (1878)

 

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Turis species was described by Cabanis and Heine from two specimens in the Heine collection, but without
any indication of exact locality. These two specimens still remain the only ones known, so far as we are
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aware, and Mr, Elliot has also not seen the species. The latter gentleman places it in the vicinity of
M. opaca and M. gelsku, from which it differs apparently in its tail being ‘luminous purple,” and by its white

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The following is a translation of the original description :—

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Adult male. Purplish dusky with a certain amount of greenish lustre, the crown, shoulders, and rump
more brilliant green, but especially a gular spot, which is of a most beautiful green; wing purplish dusky ;
the tail very broad and glossed with more beautiful purple; vent white; the under tail-coverts shining
green with a yellowish margin.

Adult female (or young male). Underneath brownish ochre; the throat and sides of the body spotted
with small dusky and greenish markings; the tail-feathers brilliant purple, the three outer ones paler
purplish at the tip. Total length 3 inches 6 lines, wing 2 inches, tail 1 inch 6 lines, culmen 5 Jines.

[R. B. 8.

METALLURA EUPOGON.

Red-throated Copper-tail.

Urolampra eupogon, Cab. Journ. fur Orn. 1874, p. oe

Metallura hedvige, Tacz. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, pp. 139, 544, pl. xxi. fig. 2.—Mulsant,
Hist. Nat. Oiseaux-Mouches, iii. p. 107 (1877).

Metallura eupogon, Elliot, Synopsis of the Humming-Birds, p. 164 (1878).—Tacz. Orn, du
Pérou, i. p. 352 (1888).

 

Tuts species of Copper-tail was discovered by Mr. Jelski, at Maraynioc, in Peru. It is a very distinc

species, having the centre of the throat metallic red instead of bluish or metallic green, Nothing has been
recorded of its habits, and the female is at present unknown. ee
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