SPORADINUS? MauGgay

19 °
Mauee’s Humming-Bird,

a eles Maugeus, Vieill. Dict. Hist. Nat., tom. vii, Pe tude coVieilll Ocarina nee
: : Ss. dor., tom. 1,

pp. 77, 79,80, and Ss, By, Y3,— 2 iej Mé
Woe ten oe oe a Vieill. Eney. Méth. Orn., part iii,
p. ul. Hist. Nat. des Ois., Sonn. édit., tom. liii, p- 237
Ornismya Maugei, Less. Hist. Nat. des Ois.-Mou., p. 194 ls :
: | ape » pls. 68, 69.—Ind. Gen. et Syn. des
Ois. du Genre Trochilus, p. XXII.

Trochilus Ourissia, auct. ?

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Ir is very interesting to the ornithologist to observe th; ; r i
g g y observe that most of the West India Islands, particularly those
of any extent, are tenanted by species of birds which are not found in the others

The Sporadinus
Maug@i is a native of Porto Rico, and, as far

as we yet know, is peculiar to that island ; strange to
say, however, no other specimens besides the two contained in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes
have ever reached Europe. Here, then, is an island that has not yet been visited by the ornitho-
logical collector; had it been, the bird would ere this have become common. As to affinity, the
S. Maug@i is more nearly allied to the §. Ricordi than to any other; at the same time it differs in form,
being intermediate between it and the long-tailed Mexican species to which I have applied the generic
name of Chlorosti/bon, or, rather, to those bearing that of Chlorolampis, of which the C. auriceps and C.
Caniveti are typical examples. Its tail is still more forked than those of the latter, but not so much so as
those of the former ; but it differs from both in not having the conspicuous bands at the terminations of the
central feathers. I think it necessary to go into these particulars because I have hinted elsewhere
that probably some future ornithologist may think it requisite to assign to this bird a distinctive generic
appellation.

The following short note and description are translated from Audebert and Vieillot’s ‘ Oiseaux dorés,’ above
referred to :-—

“This species has not yet, I believe, been described. Maugé being the first to make it known, I have
given it his name. Its only habitat is one of those islands, Porto Rico, which by its position offers to our
notice productions similar to those of St. Domingo. It is three inches and seven lines in length; the upper
mandible is black, and the lower yellowish; the upper part of the body is of a beautiful golden green; the
lower is of the same colour, but more brilliant, with blue and violet reflexions ; the lower part of the belly
is white ; the feathers of the wings and of the tail are of a velvety black which changes into bluish violet ;
the lateral tail-feathers are fourteen lines in length; the others all diminish in length up to the nS
diaries, which are the shortest ; the wings when folded somewhat exceed the latter; the feet . eee

The following are my own notes on the colouring, taken during the present year, 1861, from the specimens

in the Jardin des Plantes :—
inclining per
upper surface dull grass-green, inclining to blue on the upy

with a stain of blue on the chest; wings
upper mandible black; under mandible

“The male has the crown glittering green ;
tail-coverts ; throat and all the under surface glittering green,
purplish brown ; tail uniform steel-blue ; under tail-coverts green ;
reddish flesh-colour with a black tip.

“The female has the upper surface green ; 8
neck, and flanks green ; two centre tail-feathers green, the rest a y
blue near the tip: the two outer feathers tipped with greyish w ai + ane pene

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