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The Rev. Lansdown Guilding states that this species “ sometimes deviates from its usual habits. In general

wild, and soon disturbed. I once, however, saw a p
ught round him many a lizard and winged pet.

it is remarkably air of these species almost domesticated, in
a gentleman whose kindness and humanity had bro

on the chain of the lamp suspended over t
I have been seated with a large party at the table when

the house of
They built for many years
eral broods, in a room occupied hourly by the family.

as entered, and, passing along the faces of the visitors,
vol. v. p. 570.

he dinner-table; and here they educated

sev

the parent bird h
ithout alarm or molestation.” —Loudon’s Mag. Nat. Hist.

displaying his glorious crest, has ascended

to the young w

Vol. IV. Pl. 206.

231. ORTHORHYNCHUS ORNATUS, Gould
Habitat. One of the Windward Islands ;

This species bears a general resemblance to the O. cris
of the crest glittering green and the tip only blue ; the crest is also

r O. exilis. With the latter it never can be confounded

but which of them, is unknown.
tatus, but differs from that bird in being of a somewhat

smaller size, and in having the basal two- thirds
longer and more elegant in form than that of O. cristatus o

while the former may always be distinguished from it by the truncate form of the green portion of its crest. It is

just possible that the birds repr esented on the 3lst and 32nd plates of Lesson’s ‘ Histoire. Naturelle des Oiseaux-

mouches’ may have reference to this bird.

Vol. TV. Pl 2070

232. ORTHORHYNCHUS EXILIS ; : :

Habitat. The Islands of venta Nevis, St. ches and St. Croix.

“ After a careful examination of skins procured from St. Croix and St. Thomas,” says Mr. Alfred Newton,
«we refer them to the above-named species, though one of a male presents a slightly different appearance from the
ordinary type, in having a narrow blue edging to the otherwise golden-green crest, and thus exhibiting an affinity
to the closely-allied Blue-crest (0. cristatus) from St. Vincent and Barbadoes. The present bird has, we believe,

hitherto been known only from Martinique and Nevis.

“JT shot a female of this species at Southgate farm on the north shore of the eastern end of the Island of St.
Croix, where much of the land, being out of cultivation, is chiefly covered with Casha bushes, interspersed with
Manchioneel along the coast. I have been told that a Humming-Bird smaller than the ordinary one, and therefore

probably of this species, has been seen in other localities; but it must be very uncommon. Of its habits I know

nothing.’’—-Jbis, vol. i. p. 141.

The Brazilian ge ris I
| é genus Cephalepis comprises two species, with lengthened ornamental crests terminating in a
> 1 ] :
single plume, on which account they stand alone not only in their own family, but, so far
ee. : y, but, so far as I am aware, among
s 2 y- 1e females are entirely devoid of this conspicuous character. I think it very probable that
additional species is form wi iscover | a
pecies of this form will be discovered when the natural productions of the interior of Brazil beco
come

better known.
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Genus Crpnareris, Bove.

233. CEPHALEPIS DELALANDI 3
Cephalepis Delalandi, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p. 12. | | | | | | a
Orthorhynchus Delalandit, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p.9.
Cephalolepis Delalandi, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 61.
Habitat. Southern Brazil.

234, CepHauepis Loppieesi, Gould  . :
Cephaleprs Loddiggesu, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p. ae 3 7 | : | | | a
Orthorhynchus Loddiggesii, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p. 9
Cephalolepis Loddigesi, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil a p. 61, note

Habitat. Minas Geraes and other parts of eastern Brazil

Near to Cephalepis is the

1 ve
Genus Kuats, Reichenb.,

O Thich bu 5 les isk 1 1
one § p -ClES) Ik kno ms This Sing ular bird, which has n
f ft spec S18 W 5 O orna ce cre

to recommend it to our notice, is a native of V » and but little fine colouring

enezuela and th
form are much less highly coloured than the males. e hilly parts of New Granada. The females of this

 

 
    
  
     
  
  
  
 
 
 
  
 
  
  
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
  
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
   

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