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EUTOXERES CONDAMINI.

Condamine’s Sickle-Bill.

Trochilus Condamini, Boure. Compt. Rend. de l’Acad. des Sci. de Paris, tom. xxxii. p. 186.—
Ib. Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 96.

 

For the discovery of a second species of Sickle-Bill, the merit is due to M. Bourcier, who procured a single
specimen during his late journey in the Republic of Ecuador; and who has, in the kindest manner, sent
this unique specimen from Paris to London, to enable me to give a figure of it in the present work: the
notes accompanying ‘¢ inform me that it inhabits the woods in the environs of Archidona; that its flight is
not very rapid ; that it obtains its food from the flowers of the Orchidacee ; that, according to the Indians,
it is a very rare bird; and that the altitude of its habitat is about 10,000 feet. M. Bourcier has named. it
after M. de la Condamine, one of the three Academicians sent on a scientific expedition to Ecuador by

the French Government in 1742.

Crown of the head dark brown ; wing-coverts and back deep bronze ; above and below the eye a streak
of buff; at the back of the neck, a crescent of dark glossy green 5 wings purplish brown ; upper tail-coverts
bronzy green edged with deep buff; two centre tail-feathers dark bronzy green, slightly tipped with white ;
the next tail-feather on each side brownish black, tipped with white; the three outer feathers on each side
deep buff, shading into white at the tip; cheeks and under surface striated with buff and brownish black,
the buff predominating on the centre of the abdomen; upper mandible blackish brown ; basal half of the
under mandible yellow, apical half blackish brown; feet yellow, with dark brown scutell.

The figures are of the size of life.