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shining grass-green ; throat, sides of the neck and chest, rich violet- 

 blue; wings purple-brown; tail rather forked; central feathers 

 bronzy green ; lateral feathers purplish black ; upper mandible and 

 tip of the lower black ; basal portion of the latter fleshy white. 



Female : upper surface shining grass-green, but of a paler hue 

 than in the male ; tail as in the opposite sex, except that the lateral 

 feathers are tipped with white ; centre of the throat, abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts white. 



Total length, 3| inches ; bill, f ; wing, 2 ; tail, l£. 



Hab. Near David, on the north side of the Cordillera, Veragua. 



I am also indebted to Dr. T. B. Wilson of Philadelphia for the 

 loan of a specimen from Panama. This species is precisely of the 

 same elegant form as the T. Goudotii, but is of a larger size, and is 

 at once distinguished from that bird by its blue breast. 



5. TROCHILUS ( ?) CASTANEOVENTRIS. 



Crown of the head metallic green ; upper surface green ; wings 

 purplish brown ; tail dark bronzy green, crossed near the tip by a 

 broad band of black ; the lateral feathers tipped with buff, which de- 

 creases in extent as the feathers approach the central ones ; all the 

 under surface reddish chestnut ; bill black. 



Total length, 4 inches ; bill, -J; wing, 2\ ; tail, If. 



Hab. Cordillera of Chiriqui, at an altitude of 6000 feet. 



Remark. — This is a moderately sized species, and is not allied to 

 any other member of the family with which I am acquainted ; I am 

 therefore unable to assign it a place in any of the sections hitherto 

 proposed ; the specimens I possess appear to be immature, and are 

 unfortunately in bad condition. 



6. TROCHILUS ( ?) NIVEOVENTER. 



Crown of the head and back of the neck bronzy green ; back rich 

 coppery bronze ; wings purple-brown ; upper tail-coverts reddish 

 purple ; tail purple-black ; throat resplendent green ; abdomen snow- 

 white ; flanks green ; under tail-coverts greenish brown, margined 

 with white ; bill black, except the basal three-fourths of the lower 

 mandible, which are flesh colour. 



Total length, 3f inches; bill, -J; wing, 2\; tail, \\. 



Hab. Near David ; warm countries of Veragua. 



Remark. — Nearly allied to T. Edwardi and T. erythronotus ; from 

 the former, however, it differs in the colour of the tail, and from the 

 latter in the white colouring of the breast. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



Thursday, 19th June. — Professor Balfour, President, in the Chair. 



A copy of the new edition of the Society's Catalogue of British 

 Plants was laid on the table. 



Mr. Henry Paul presented a specimen of Codium Bursa, collected 

 in the neighbourhood of Brighton. 



Dr. Balfour exhibited specimens of Bryum Wahlenberyii from 

 Arniston, near Edinburgh, where they were collected by Mr. Veitch, 



