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the eye pale brown instead of black ; feet pale brown. The baud acrciss the back 

 and the tips of the wing-coverts are of the same deep chestnut as usual in 

 G. coronaia. 



2. Goura beccarii Sahad. 



We have specimens of this rare Gourn from Humboldt Bay, where it was 

 origiually described from, as well as from Konstantinhafen, German New Guinea. 

 They are quite similar to each other, or at least the two specimens from Konstan- 

 tinhafen, collected by J. Kubary, have only a triflingly longer crest, but they do not 

 yet show the characters peculiar, according to Dr. A. B. Meyer, to his Goura beccarii 

 huanemsis, fi'om the Huon Gulf, still fartlier eastwards. (Cf. Orn. Monataber., vol. i.. 

 pp. Go-67.) 



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NOTES ON HUMMING BIRDS. 



Bv ERNST HARTERT. 



1. Selasphonis flammula Salvin. 



MOXG a number of birds collected in Costa Rica by Mr. C. F. I'nderwood, the 

 Tring Museum received a tine series of that rare humming bird Sdusphoms 

 fiamriiula Salvin. The type of this species is the only example of it in the British 

 Museum. It is, unfortunately, an immature male, and Mr. Salvin. who compared 

 one of our birds with his type, agrees with me on this point. The iminaluritv of the 

 specimen caused not only an incomplete description, but also the placing of the 

 species in a wrong section of the genus in the key to the species in Cat. B., xvi., 

 p. 392, and in the Biologia Centrali Americana (Aves, vol. ii., p. 357), as the adult 

 m,ale has distinctly elongated lateral gular feathers, and in Mr. Salvin's kev to the 

 species of Sekispkorus it would best be placed behind or before & torridus, with 

 which species it agrees very much, e.xcept in the entirely different colom- of the throat 

 and the length of wing. 



A description of the male and female appeared in the same year as vol. .\vi. 

 of the C'affilotjue of Birds, in 1892, in Boucard's Genera of Hui/iminfj Birds, a 

 work which appears together with Boucard's Hnmmi'iii/ Bird, and of which, until 

 now, 250 pages, treating of 354 species, are published ; l)ut that description is alspi 

 rather short and not very detailed, so that a descriiilion from my series may not 

 be unnecessary. 



Adult Mali-: (Faldas de Irazu, January, in perfect plumage). — Above dark 

 iironzy green. Uppermost chin, lores, and a Hue of featliers under the eye cinnamon- 

 rufous. Ear-coverts mixed deep blackish brown and rufous. Throat of a very peculiar 

 kind of dark raspheny-red, with a singular dull metallic gloss. Lateral gular feathers 

 broadly elongated over the while sides of the neck. All gular feathers blackish at 

 base, and with a rufous band between the base and the large glossy tip. Feathers of the 

 breast and sides of neck white, blackish at base. Feathers of sides of breast and flanks 



