156 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO BULLETIN. [XX.2,3&4, 



The nest Is of the hanging type with a long tall beneath 

 (PI. Ill fig. 5). The nest proper is about two inches wide by 

 about two and a half inches deep, the tail about six inches long. 

 The cup of the nest is about I 4 inches across by one inch deep. 



1 he material of the nest is very thickly woven light brown 

 fibres (?surface roots of ferns and plants) mixed with other material 

 and thickly covered with spiders web. The tail consists of fibres 

 together with dried leaves and various rubbish and is thickly coated 

 with spiders web. The nest is lined with brown hairy seeds some- 

 thing similar to those found in the nest of the Rachette (see below). 



50. PhoEthornis longuemarcus. Lesson. Rachette. 

 Pygmornis longuemarcus. Leotaud No. 62. 



This humming bird is, in the Maracas Valley, distinctly more 

 common than the previous species, but it resembles it in general 

 appearance and habits. 



Its total length (tip of tail to tip of bill) is only 1 10 mm. so that 

 it is about two-thirds the size of the previous species. 



The back dark bronze green, the head a little darker than the 

 back. A line over the eye, the under surface and the upper tail 

 coverts rufous. Chin and a line behind the eye blackish. Central 

 tail feathers bronze green tipped with white and projecting beyond 

 the rest, outer ones blackish edged with rufous. Wing feathers 

 brown. 



The bill, as in the previous species, is long and distinctly curved. 



The female resembles the male. 



The nest (PI. I and PI. II, fig. 3) is half cup shaped with a long 

 pendant tail and is attached to the underside of a leaf of an Aroid 

 {Spathyphyllum) or more rarely a fern, usually over the water and 

 within a few inches of it. 



The mam part of the nest is about I5 inches across, outside 

 measurement, by l-j inches deep. The tail is 5-6 inches long tapering 

 to tip. The inside of the nest is about l^ inches wide by Ij inches 

 deep. 



The material of the nest is thickly matted green and brown moss 

 lightly coated v/ithspiders web, which is thick only along theedgeof the 

 leaf at the line of attachment to the nest. The tail includes various 

 materials such as hairy seeds and strips of dead banana leaves. The 

 nest is thickly lined with hairy seeds apparently belonging to plants. 



of the genus Echites (Apocynacea) 



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