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INT ROD UCT ON: Ixxix

228. ANTHOCEPHALA ? CASTANEIVENTRIS.
Adelomyia ? castaneiventris, Gould : : : j : : : : : : Vol. III. Pl. 203.
Habitat. Chiriqui.

The fourth volume commences with a species which plays no inconsiderable part as an article of trade; for it
is the one, par excellence, of which thousands are annually sent to Europe for the purpose of contributing to the
decorations of the drawing-rooms of the wealthy, for the manufacture of artificial flowers, &c.; and well suited is
it for such purposes, its rich ruby and topaz-like colouring rendering it one of the most conspicuous and beautiful
objects imaginable. ‘The Chrysolampis moschitus (better known by its trivial name of Ruby and Topaz Humming-
Bird) enjoys a very wide range, being found all over the eastern parts of Brazil, Cayenne, Guiana, Venezuela, the
high lands of Bogota, and Trinidad.

The females of this form differ very widely from the males in the colouring of their plumage ; and the young
males undergo so many changes between youth and maturity, that they must have puzzled the most astute of

ornithological investigators.

Genus Curysoxampis, Bove.

229. CHRYSOLAMPIS MOSCHITUS . ; ; : : : ; : . ‘ i : Vol. IV. Pl. 204.
Chrysolampis moschita, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 21.
Chrysolampis Reichenbachi, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p21.

Habitat. Guiana, Cayenne, Brazil, Venezuela, the Andes of New Granada, and the islands of Trinidad and
Tobago.

Dr. Cabanis is of opinion that the bird from New Granada is distinct from that obtained in the other localities ;
but I must receive more decided evidence that such is the case than I at present possess, before I can admit that
there is any difference between the Andean and Brazilian examples ; for the present, therefore, I place his name of
C. Reichenbacht as a synonym of C. moschitus, which I believe to be the only species yet known of the genus.

“This pretty little species” [says Mr. Kirk] “ arrives in Tobago at the end of January or about the Ist of
February. It begins to build about the 10th, lays two pure-white eggs, and sits fourteen days. It feeds on ants
as well as flowers. I detected 115 small insects in the stomach of one I dissected. One of these birds having
attached its nest to the trunk of a logwood tree close to a window of my residence, I had an opportunity of
observing its manners during incubation, and I can assert that, although I confined the young by means of some
coarse wire cloth, through which the parent could feed them, for upwards of three weeks after they were ready to
leave the nest, and although she evinced the greatest distress by her chirping note when flying around me, often
within three feet, I never but twice, from the laying until the period I mention, saw a male near the nest; and
whether they pair seems to be disputed, as on both these occasions he was hotly pursued by the female to a
considerable distance with all the bickering violence so peculiar to the tribe.””— Hore Zoologica, by Sir. W. Jardine,
Bart., in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. xx. p. 373.

In proceeding next to the genus Orthorhynchus, composed of birds ornamented with glittering green and blue
crests, I do not insist that they have any direct affinity with the last, nor are they intimately allied to the members
of the succeeding one: a more isolated form, in fact, is not to be found among the Trochilide. Only two species
have been recorded by previous writers; but specimens of a third are contained both in the Loddigesian and my
own collections: I allude to the bird here described under the name of Orthorhynchus ornatus.

All the members of the

Genus Ortuornyncuus, Cuv.,

are confined to the West India Islands; but our present knowledge of them does not admit of my stating positively
the extent of the range of each species; this is a point which requires further investigation. The females differ

from the males in being destitute of the glittering crown.

230. ORTHORHYNCHUS CRISTATUS : : i : : : i ; ; ; é Vol. IV. Pl. 205.
Orthorhynchus cristatus, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 61.
Habitat. Barbadoes, and St. Vincent.