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INTRODUCTION:

, -ocity Amazili or tlie ani
between members of the same species. Hugenes fulgens attacks with equal ferocity Amanviandimentt, 208 2a
: : ms a ‘a . r re a roye
d generosity, scruples not to tilt with the little Trochilus colubris. I know of hardly any species

by high-soule : Riera
nee yet it is not to the midday sun that it exhibits its

that shows itself more brilliantly than this when on the wing ;
ino mist between the volcanos of Agua and Fuego, and

: pees aes n it is igenes n
all is as in a November fog in England, except that the yellow element 1s w anting, then it is that Eugenes fulgens

appears in numbers; Amazilia Devillei, instead of a few scattered birds, is to be seen in every tree, and Trochilus
at os alee ird life y ‘dly be credited by one who
colubris in great abundance :; such animation awakes in Humming-Bird life as would hardly y

and the flying to and fro, the humming of wings, the momentary

splendour. When the southerly wind brings clouds and driv

had passed the same spot an hour or two before ;
“I 7 e 1 ye T
and prolonged contests, and the incessant battle-cries seem almost enough for a time to turn the head of a lover of

these things. I have fifteen males from Duefas to one female.” —J/bis, vol. ii. p. 261.

Following the Eugenes fulgens is the softly-coloured Delattria Clemencie of my work, the proper name of which
is Celigena Clemencia, it being the type of the
Genus Caxuicena, Less.
69. CaLiGENA CLEMENCIA, Less.
Delattria Clemencize : : 3 : i : ‘ : : 5 : E 5 Vol. II. Pl. 60.

Campylopterus Clemencia, Jard. Nat. Lib. Humming-Birds, vol. ii. p. 154.
Trochilus lucidus, Licht. in Mus. of Berlin.
Coeligena Clemenciae, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p. 3, pl. 687. fig. 4516 ; Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 15.

Habitat. Mexico, where it is far from common.

The

Genus Lamprotema, Reichend.
was instituted for the truly beautiful bird known as De Rham’s Garnet.

70. LAmMproLamMa RuaAmi 5 : : : : : : : : : : Voli, Pier.
Trochilus fulgidus, Licht. in Mus. of Berlin.
Lamprolaema Rhami, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 30.
Habitat. Guatemala.

We now come to the
Genus Dexrarrria, Bonap.
as restricted to the D. Henrici and D. viridipallens, both of which species are natives of Guatemala

71. DevatTrria Henrict 3 : ‘ 5 i 2 : : Vol. II. Pl. 62

Lamprolaima Henrici, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p- 9.
Heliodoxa Henrici, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p. 6, pl. 742. figs. 4701-3.

Habitat.—Guatemala.

72. DELATTRIA VIRIDIPALLENS

Habitat. Guatemala.

; : 5 : : 4 Vol. II. Pl. 63.

“ Casa ne i fg > ° rT
Occurs, in company with Petasophora thalassina, on the Volcan de Fuego. Seems to keep entirely to the

fore 5 f 1 olcanc¢ C S . x *
SUS Je . ave € Ce O Ss species

at Coban. It may readily be recognized j j oes
og Z2( bv | > . ro To a : 3 ‘ =
y y y the peculiar harshness of its note.” Salvin in ‘ Ibis,’ vol. ii.

pp. 40, 263.
Near to these are the members of the

Genus Heniopepica, Gould.

(Havos, sol, et masdixds, juvenilis. )
Generic characters.

Male.— Bill straight, and rather longe

r than the head; head round, or with the feathers not advancing on the
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