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e their four central tail-feathers tipped with bronzy green ; but this colour appears

‘reshly ed adult males hav ,
ne I believe this bird is also found at Panama.

to fade upon exposure to light, leaving the tail nearly black.

Genus Cxuiorostitpon, Gould.
(XAwpos, viridis, et ariABo, COrusco. )

er this generic appellation, for a form of which I always intended the C. prasinus to be the type, I have

Und yo
Birds ; but I now see the necessity of subdividing them ; I shall

fixvred the whole of the little green Humming-

therefore restrict the term to the following species—angustipenns, Haeberlini,

. : . r, Cabanis’s genus Panychlora for Alici
brevicaudatus, Napensis, Peruanus, Daphne, and chrysogaster, and adopt Dr g y ici@,

Phaéthon, aurewentris, prasinus, Atala,

euchloris, Poortmanni, and stenura.

Vol. V. Pl. 353.

397. CHLOROSTILBON ANGUSTIPENNIS

Habitat. Panama and New Granada.

398. CHLOROSTILBON HAEBERLINI.
Chlorolampis chrysogaster, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil ii. p. 47.

Trochilus Haeberlinii, Licht. in Mus. of Berlin.
Chlorestes Haeberlinii, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p. 7; Id. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pl. 703. figs. 4578-80.

Chlorolampis Haeberlini, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 48, note.

Habitat. Carthagena.

I have had the original of C. Haeberlini sent to me from Berlin, and I find it to be a very elegantly formed
bird, nearly allied to, but quite distinct from, C. angustipennis. It differs in having the glittering green of the under
surface washed with blue, a shorter wing, and a still more deeply forked tail, the feathers of which are steely-green,

and not so dark as in that species. It is said to be from Carthagena.

399. CHLOROSTILBON PHAETHON . ; : : ‘ : : : : Vol. V. Pl. 354.

Habitat. Bolivia, Southern Brazil, and La Plata.

Since writing my account of this species, in which I expressed my belief that the Ornismyia aurewentris of
D’Orbigny and Lafresnaye was identical with it, I have carefully re-examined my specimens from the above-named
countries, together with an example collected by Mr. Bridges, and I am now inclined to believe the O. aurewventris
to be distinct ; but as it merely differs in being of smaller size in all its admeasurements, it will not be necessary

for me to figure it.

400. CHLOROSTILBON AUREIVENTRIS.
Ormsmyia aurewentris, D’Orb. et Lafresn.
Hylocharis aurewentris, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p- 255.
Habitat. Bolivia and Peru.

401. CHLOROSTILBON PRASINUS

. : : E Vol. V. Pl. 355.
Trochilus Pucherani, Bourc. et Muls. Rev. Zool. 1848, tom. ii. [On 7.

Hylocharis pucherani, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool 1854, p- 255.

Chlorestes Pucherani, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p. 7; Id. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pl. 755. fig. 4736.
Trochilus nitidissimus, Licht. in Mus. of Berlin.

Hylocharis prasina, Burm. Th. Bras. tom. ii. p. 350.

Chlorestes nitidissimus, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p- 7; Id. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pl. 693. figs. 4538-39.
Trochilus lamprus, “ Nat.” in Mus. of Munich. :
Chlorostilbon nitidissimus, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 47.

Ornismya Galathea, Bourc. et Muls. in Mus. of Paris.

Trochilus viridissimus, Linn. in Mus. of Berlin (young).

n my account of this species I stated that, owing to its being impossible to determine to what bird Lesson

had give na he :
given the name of prasinus; I should apply it to the one generally known by that term among collectors—the

bird so common in the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, Minas Geraes, &c. From Dr. Cabanis we learn that it
has been named aces mitidissimus by Lichtenstein in the Museum of Berlin, and Vrochilus lamprus, Natt. in the
Museum of Munich; but had either of these names been published to the world before Dr. Cabanis included it in
um’ under the name of Chlorostilbon nitidissimus ?
must certainly give place to M. Bourcier’s previously publishe

his ‘Museum Heinean
If not, and prasinus be rejected, that term

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