184 TKocHir.r. 



" Male. Top of head, nape, and mantle metallic green ; throat and 

 tipper part of the breast brilliant metallic blue, the white bases of 

 the feathers on the throat and breast showing conspicuously amid 

 the blue ; but this may be caused by the plumage of the specimen 

 being disarranged. Back, rump, and upper tail-coverts light 

 greenish bronze ; wings purplish ; flanks and lower part of breast 

 shining green ; abdomen whitish ; under tail-coverts pale brown, 

 margined with white ; tail pale greenish bronze ; a subterminal 

 black bar, as in many species of lliaumatias, is present on all the 

 feathers excepting the two median ones : bill very slender and 

 pointed ; maxiUa black ; mandible flesh-colour ; feet black. Total 

 length 3'25 inches, wing 2, tail 1-25, bill 0-75. 



'■'Female. Head and upjjer parts, sides of throat, and flanks shining 

 grass-green ; centre of throat and underparts whitish, apparently 

 spotted -with metallic light green ; tail like that of the male, tips 

 of lateral feathers whitish ; under tail-coverts whitish ; wings 

 purple : maxilla broken off, the base black ; mandible flesh-colour ; 

 feet black. Lenglh 3-75 inches, wing 2, tail 1-25, bill 0"75." 

 {Elliot, I. s. c.) 



Described by Mr. Elliot from specimens in the Paris Museum, 

 brought by d'Orbigny from Moxos and Yungas in Bolivia. The so- 

 called female was in bad condition, but if correctly described shows 

 a sexual difference in the colour of the throat from the male with- 

 out precedent in this genus. 



Hah. Bolivia. 



8. Agyrtria bartletti. 



Thaumantias bartletti, Goidd, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 194; 8cl. ^- Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1873, p. 388 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 255 ; id. 



Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 205 ; Elliot, Ibis, 1878, p. 53 ; Eudes- 



Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 378. 

 Polytmus bartletti, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 128. 

 Agyrtria bartletti, Elliot, Syn. Trocli. p. 205 ; Tacz. Orn. Per. i. 



p. 403 ; SharjK in Gotdd's Mon. Troch. pi. 50 (Mar. 1885). 



Adult male. Upper surface dark shining grass-green, changing to 

 bronzy green on the upper tail-coverts ; throat and breast dark 

 glittering blue ; middle of the abdomen greyish white ; flanks 

 shining bluish green ; under tail-coverts dark brown edged with 

 greyish white ; tail steel-blue, the central rectrices above washed 

 with bronzy green : maxilla black ; mandible flesh-colour, tip 

 black. Total length about 4-1 inches, wing 2-1, tail 1-15, bill 0-9. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but with the lateral rectrices 

 tipped with greyish white. 



Hab. Upper Amazons Valley. 



a, b. cJ ad. sk. Upper Ucavali, Peru, June, 1 



July (E.'Bartlctt). ■ Gould Coll. 



c. $ ad.sk. 8arayacu, Peru, Aug. (£. 7A). ) (Types of tlie 



species.) 



d-f. S ad. ik. Saravacu, Peru, June, Sept. Salrin-Gndman Co]]., 



[E. B.). k^. 



