COALIGENA WILSONT.
Wilson’s Ceelizene.

Trochilus Wilson, De Latt. et Boure. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 305

Mellisuga Wilson, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i p. 112, Melk 13
: Salen » Methsuga, sp. 13.

, p.73, Bourcieria sp. 4.—Ib. Rev. et M

/ eo 7 , sp. 4. : y. et Mag. de Zool.
| oe Be goe Reichenb. Troch. enumer., p. 7. pl. pecxr. figs. 4723, 4724.
Lampropygia Wilson, Reichenb. Aufz. der Colibris, p. 10.

Bourcieria Wilson, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av.

ve little to communicate respecting the bir re figured ; it 1 i ite disti
Teak c I g the bird here figured ; it is certainly quite distinct from every other

with which we are acquainted, but I doubt not that I have placed

belongs, namely, Celgena; for Coen it in that genus to which it truly
elongs, namely, Catigena; for, upon comparing it with the we

ll-known species, C. ¢ypica and C. purpurea,
and the distribution of the colouring is very simil
only exception being that the throat of this species is luminous; the f

no structural differences whatever are observable ;
ar, the

three birds are in fact intimately allied,
group, which does not admit of or require
the lustrous fringing of the feathers of the back and rump—being
common to the whole of them, and not observable in any others of the Trochilid

and, with the Prune/i, appear to me to constitute a natural

 

separation ; one very peculiar character
‘ 2 ee ez yet discovered.

The Cehgena Wilsont has been named in honour of Edward Wilson, Esq., of Tenby in Pembrokeshire

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a gentleman who, OU not himself Z professed ornithologist, has contributed both largely and liberally
towards the promotion of that branch of science. The native country of the bird is Ecuador, whence it
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extends northward to the latitude of Bogota, and southward to the confines of Peru. But little difference
will, I believe, be found in the colouring of the sexes; the female as well as the male, in all the specimens
I have seen, possesses the purple colouring of the throat, but in no instance to so great an extent as in
the latter sex.

M. Bourcier states, that in the neighbourhood of Quito it inhabits the sheltered valleys of the Andes, at
an elevation of ten thousand feet, and that he has killed numerous specimens in the valley of Nono, to the

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north of Quito.

Head and all the upper surface bronzy brown, changing to bronzy green on the wing-coverts and back,
the green of the back being most apparent when viewed from behind; upper tail-coverts bronzy brown ;
wings purplish brown ; tail bronze, changing to green towards the margin of the feathers, and narrowly edged
with dark brown; chin and ear-coverts dark brown; throat fine purple, bounded on the sides and below by
a narrow band of brownish black; on each side the neck a patch of greyish white; under surface obscure
brownish grey washed with bronze; under tail-coverts reddish brown ; bill black; feet brown.

The Plate represents the two sexes of the size of life. The plant is the Trichopilia suavis.

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