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Hylocharis chlorocephala, Boure. in Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854. p. 457.

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chlorocephalus, Bonap. Rey. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 255.
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Lepidopyga chlorocephala, Cab. Mus. Hein., Theil iii. p. 40, note.

 

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Tuts species has some characters in common with the one I have called Eucephalas maragdo-cerulea, but it
differs from that bird in several particulars of sufficient Importance to warrant its being regarded as distinct :

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in the first place, there is no blue whatever on the chin and upper part of the breast, those parts being

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clear green like the remainder of the under surface; in the next, the under tail-coverts are white with a
stain of olive-brown in the centre of each feather, while the same feathers in the Z. smaragdo-cerulea are
green; and lastly, the upper tail-coverts are bronzy brown in the present bird, and bright green, even

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brighter than that of the back, in the other.

The Eucephala chlorocephala is a very rare bird, and its native country is I believe at present unknown ;
for although M. Bourcier states that it flies in the environs of Guaranda in Ecuador, I think that gentleman
must have been misinformed on this point, and that in all probability the bird inhabits Brazil; but of this I

am of course uncertain.
Of its habits and economy nothing has been recorded; nor is it even known whether any difference

occurs in the outward appearance of the two sexes.

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Crown of the head bluish grass-green; all the upper surface and wing-coverts bronzy green; wings
purplish brown; upper tail-coverts rich coppery bronze; tail uniform dark steel-blue ; chin, throat, and
abdomen shining grass-green; thighs white; under tail-coverts dark olive broadly margined with white ;
bill black ; base of the under mandible fleshy.

The figures are of the natural size. The plant is the Sctodacalyw Warszewiert.

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