AMAZILIA CORALLIROSTRIS.
Coral-billed Amazili.

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Trochilus corallirostris, Boure. et Muls. Ann. de la Soc. Sci. de Lyon, tom. ix. 1846, p. 328.

Polytmus corallirostris, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p- 109, Polytmus, sp. 74.

Amazilius corallirostris, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 77, Amazilius, sp. 5.—Ib. Rey. et Mag. de
Zool. 1854, p. 254.

Amazilha corallirostris, Reich. Aufz. der Col., p- 10.

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Few of the Humming-birds are more plainly coloured than the Amazilia corallirostris ; the tints of the . i
under surface, from the chin to the lower part of the abdomen, being uniform sandy-buff, while on the crown

and all the upper surface, a similar uniformity of tint, although of a different hue, prevails; the chestnut-red

tail, too, is only relieved by the bronzy tipping of the feathers. In all the members of this genus, a tendency

to a buffy style of plumage occurs, which appears to be carried to a greater extent in the present species

than in any other.

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The native habitat of this bird is Central America, whence numerous specimens were brought by M. Sallé

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and others. M. Bourcier gives Escuintla, in the republic of Guatemala, as one of its habitats. None of the

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examples of this species which have come under my notice present sufficient differences to suggest which
are males and which females; the colouring of the sexes in fact appears to be precisely similar.

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All the upper surface, wing- and tail-coverts bronzy-brown; wings purplish-brown; tail-feathers deep
chestnut, glossed with bronze on their margins and tips; all the under surface sandy-buff; bill said to be
red; feet apparently fleshy-brown.

The Plate represents the birds the size of life. The plant is the Rondeletia versicolor.