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Length 5 in. ; wing 2' 3 ; tail If ; bill 1. 



Habitat. Venezuela. Collected by S. C. Nash. 



This species is of the same size as C. Btffoni, which it also most resembles, 

 it differs from it in the golden hue of the front and throat, and in the decidedly 

 bronzed taiJ, the bronzing on the tail of Buffo ni being very slight, and is just 

 perceptible on the edges of some of the feathers. 



G. urochri/sea, Gould, has the "tail rich golden bronze both above and 

 beneath," aud the " lower mandible fleshy red," whereas in my species the 

 upper surface of the tail only is bronzed, and the bill is wholly black. 

 5. Chalybura Carnioli. 



Mule. Upper plumige dark green with a tinge of golden on the wing cov- 

 erts and lower part of the back ; upper tail coverts dark violet purple, the 

 tail has both the upper and under surface bronzed violet purple, lighter in 

 color than the coverts; wings brownish purple; throat of a shining deep 

 green ; breast and abdomen dull green ; under tail coverts dull violet purple : 

 upper mandible black, under yellow with the tip black ; tarsi and toes yellow. 



Length 5 in. ; wing 2| ; tail 1| ; bill J. 



The female differs in having the middle of the throat, the lower part of the 

 abdomen and the under tail coverts dull ash ; the outer three tail feathers 

 marked at their ends with pale ash, most so on the outer feather. 



Habitat. Costa Rica, Angostura. In museum of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. 



This species appears to be somewhat like C. Isaurre in the coloring of the 

 tail, but differs remarkably from that species as well as from all others of the 

 genus, in having its under tail coverts of a dark color, instead of pure white. 



I have named it in compliment to Mr. Julian Carniol whose large collections 

 sent to the Smithsonian Institution (containing many new species besides thi>) 

 give evidence of his energy and industry as an explorer. 

 (5. Panychlora parvirostris. 



Female. Upper plumage of a rather light grass green with a golden tinge : 

 upper tail coverts and central feathers golden bronze, much deeper in color 

 on the coverts ; the other tail feathers are white at their bases for more than 

 half their length, succeeded by a broad band of brownish black and ending in 

 white, the outer feather being most largely tipped with white ; under surface 

 pale ashy grey ; under tail coverts white ; bill black ; toes blackish brown, 

 underneath pale yellow. 



Length 3 in. ; wing If ; tail J ; bill J. 



Habitat. Costa Rica, Angostura. Collected by J. Carniol. Museum of 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



The bill is strikingly small compared with that of P. AUci(v, although in 

 their other measurements they are much alike ; it also differs from the female 

 of that species in the upper tail coverts being golden orange instead of pure 

 green, and in the bases of the tail feathers being white instead of green. The 

 male will, without doubt, be found to possess the glittering green plumage of 

 its allies. 



March 1th. 

 Vice-President Cassin in the Chair. 

 Eighteen members present. 



March 14th. 

 The President, Dr. Bridges, in the Chair. 

 Twenty members present. 

 1865.] 



