51. AGYRTRIA. 191 



nq. c5'ad.;r. 5 Coban, Guatemala, Nov. Salviu-Oodman, 



ad. sk. (O. Salvin). Sclater, & Gould 



Colls. 



s. S <ifl. sk. Choctum, Guatemala, Fel). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(O. S. ^- F. D. G.). 



t, u. S ad. sk. Guatemala (Skinner). Gould Coll. 



r. (^ ad. sk. Guatemala. Tweeddale Coll. 



w-z. c5' ad. sk. Guatemala ? (Delattre). Gould Coll. 



a'. S id. sk. Chontales, Nicaragua, Feb. Salvln-Godman Coll. 

 {Belt). 



18. Agyrtria tephrocephala. 



Trochilustephrocephalus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. i\''. xxiii. p. 403 ; 



id. Enc. Meth.^. 560; Less. hid. Gen. Troch. p. xxvi. 

 Ornismva tepbrocephalus. Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, pp. xxxii, 



182, pi. 02. 

 Ornismva albiventris, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, ii. pp. xxxiv, 



209, pi. 70 ; d'Orb. Sc Lafr. Sijn. Av. ii. p. 30. 

 Trochilus albiventris, Less. Ind. Gen. Troch. p. xxvi. 

 Trocbilus vulgaris, Wied. Beitr. iv. p. 72. 

 Thaumatias albiventris, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 73 ; id. Rev. Zoo/. 18o4, 



p. 255; Gould, Mon. Troch. v. pi. 301 (Sept. 1856); id. Intr. 



Troch. p. 153 ; Elliot, Ibis, 1877, p. 138 ; Mids. Hist. Nat. Ois.- 

 Mouches, I. p. 244, iv. p. 176 ; id. Ann. 8oc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 205. 

 Coeligena y. Cceligena tepbrocepbala, Reich. Anfz. d. Col. p. 7. 

 Agyrtria thaumatias, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 10 ; id. Troch. Enum. 



p. 7, pi. 756. ff. 4738-9. 

 Agvrtria albiventris, Reich. Troch. Enum. p. 7, pi. 757. S. 4744-5 ; 



Cab. .y Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 32 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 313 ; 



Heine, J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 183 j Burnt. J. f. Orn. 1865, p. 229; 



Feb. Orn. Bras. p. 28. 

 Coeligena tepbrocepbala, Reich. Troch. Enum. p. 3, pi. 687. f. 4518. 

 Leucochloris albiventris, Muls. Sf Verr. Class. Troch. p. 32. 

 Thaumatias tepbrocephalus, Elliot, Ibis, 1878, p. 48 ; Eudes-Desl. 



Ann. 3Ius. Caen, i. p. 381. 

 Thaumasius albiventris, Scl. ^- Salv. F. Z. S. 1879, p. 630. 

 Agyrtria tepbrocepbala, Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 206; Salv. Cat. Strickl. 

 Coll. p. 368 ; Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 260. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining dark grass-green, duller on 

 the crown and upper tail-coverts ; under surface glittering grass- 

 green, duller on the flanks ; middle of the abdomen and uudcr tail- 

 coverts pure white ; tail steel-blue, middle rectrices greener with 

 dark tips, lateral faintly tipped with gre)' : maxilla brownish black ; 

 mandible flesh-colour, tip black. Total length about 4*3 inches, 

 wing 2-4, tail 1-5, bill 1. 



Female. Similar to the male, but with the tips of the lateral 

 rectrices paler. 



Hab. Brazil. 



a-c. (S ad. ; d, e. Rio Brazil. Gould Coll, 



$ ad. sk. 



/. Ad. sk. Brazil. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



g. Ad. sk. " Demerara." Gould Coll. 



