INTRODUCTION.

Genus CatiipHiox, Bore.

ps the very commonest of the frill-necked Humming-Birds is the C. amethystina. It is more widely

since it inhabits all the countries from Braz
I have some doubt as to the propriety of so doing. The

Perha
spread than many other species, il to Venezuela.

In this genus I have also placed the C. Mitchelli ; but

throats of the two birds, although beautifully coloured, are not luminous.

Vol. III. Pl. 159,

178. CALLIPHLOX AMETHYSTINA . : :
Trochilus brevicaudus, Spix, Av. Bras. tom. i. p. 79, tab.
orthurus, Jard. Nat. Lib. Humming-Birds, vol. ii. p. 60, pl. 8°

 

Cynanthus amethystinus, 1d. ib. vol. ii. p. 143.
? orthura, Id. ib. vol. ii. p. 143 ?

Habitat. Brazil, Demerara, Cayenne, and Trinidad.
f Lesson be a species or an old female of C. amethystina requires further inves-

 

Whether the Ornismya orthura o
tigation. Wherever the C. amethystina is found in Brazil,

company—a fact which militates against its being a distinct species.

Trinidad, or Demerara, the O. orthura is found in its

179. CALLIPHLOX AMETHYSTOIDES, Less.
Trochilus amethystoides, Jard. Nat. Lib. Humming-Birds, vol. ii. p. 62.
Cynanthus amethystoides, Id. ib. vol. ii. p. 143.
Calliphlow amethystoides, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. p. 84.

Habitat. Minas Geraes in Brazil.
In my account of C. amethystina I have regarded this species as identical with that bird; but M. Bourcier is

still of opinion that it is distinct; and as I find that it is of smaller size, and the tint of the gorget is somewhat
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different, I defer to his opini 7} ever Rca : ° ;
, opinion. It will not, however, be necessary to give a separate figure of it. Specimens from

Minas Geraes are certainly more diminutive than from elsewhere.

180. CaLnutipHiox? MitrcHeELui . :
: : i : : ; : ; : : Vol. III. Pl. 160.

Habitat. Southern parts of New Granada and Ecuador.

5 e species 0 ’ Cc y
1€1r Sstrv S . y | C s
adormec 3 uc a t e de e eol / Hetvangetus C; { € a (BS |
5 7 . &

of very different form, and as we proceed I think it will be seen that they are better placed hereafter. I p 1
é ereafter. roceec

 

next then with th ra ke C ile 3] i s } > c
these and 1e fo : 3 b 1 1 = C d
. < C of affini . ’ > Ww co V | ne \ dal n g ou 3
S e x ramary
y 5 € spec a miraowis. As any descrip 10 howe VieTErace urate m 1 O1LV "re d

Ss t c D5 1s ere Ca rs t C p 1 ] J € eC} 1 e
thi singcu rs -c1es ] mus O ate, U

Genus Loppicesta, Gould.
(Loddiges, nom. prop.)

ti Stre £ c cr than the head 3 win Ss lin 1 ] 1C |
5 C ’ Xe] al unuti Vier primaries rou le 1 at the ti ut t |

ea her oO each C ] - G e | .

Female.— Unknown.
8 ee oe
181, LoppiGEsIA MIRABILIS, Gould

; ; : ; : . . . : Vol. TIC Pick

Habitat. Chachapoyas in Peru.

The racket-tailed birds I have ficured under é
g der the generic name of Spathura are spread o the t t
ura are spread over the temperate

regions of the great Andean range
ge of mountains from the northern parts of New G d Bol
| ; arts Ne ranada to Bolivia. Much con-
appellation o se birds. "
the term Ocreatus, and in 1850 substituted that of S oe ee pepe ee
of Spathura; while in |
: 849 Dr. Reichenba
i ach employed that of

In the body of this work
allowed to stand.

fusion prevails with respec i
prevails with respect to the generic

Steganurus, which he changed in 1853 to Stegan
5 : Steganura.

my own generic Pees a
; generic name, which I hope may be all the species are arranged under