55. AMAZILIA. 209 



6. Amazilia graysoni. 



Amazilia (Pyrrhophsena) graysoni, Laior. Ann. Lxjc. N. Y. viii. 

 p. 404. 



Pyrrhophasna graysoni, Grayson, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xiv. p. 183- 



Lmor. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 292. ' 



Amazilia graysoni, Gould, Ibis, 1807, p. 247 ; Muh. Hist. Nat. Ois.- 



Z!"'-^;,^- ^^^' '^- P- ^®^; '■'^- ^^«- '^"^- ^^«"- Lyon, xxii. 

 ^ ^Oo; Elhot, Stjn. Troch. p. 219; d^ Hamonv. Bull.' Soc. Zoul. 

 J -!"• '^^^ P- •^1'^ ; Sharpe m Gould's Mon. Troch. Steppl. (xMarch 



Amazilis graysoni, Eicdes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 402. 



Adult. Very similar to that of A. cinnamomea as regards the colour 



2-6 taUW^biu"! "''''^ ^'''"^''''' '^"^''^ ^''"^^^ ''^"''^ '^■'^ '"''^'''' "^'"^ 



^a6. Tres Marias Islands, Western Mexico. 

 «, 6. d" ? ad. sk. Tres Marias Is., Mar. (Ferrer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



7. Amazilia beryllina. 



Trocbilus beryllinus, Lickt. Preis-Verz. Hex., Vog. p. 1 (cf. J. f. Orn 

 loDo, p. 55 ). • L \ ./ J 



Ornismya arsinoe, Less. Suppl. Ois.-Mouches, p. 154, pis. 28, 29 

 Irochilus arsinoe, Less. Ind. Gen. Troch. p. xxviii 

 Irochilus maris, Bourc. Aim. Sc. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, ix. p. 319 

 (1846) ; id. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 316. ^ > P- ^^^ 



Hylocharis niarise. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 115 ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p 74. 

 Amazihus arsinoe, B^j. Comp. Av. i. p. 77; id. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 254 • 



Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 297, 367. 

 Amazma arsinoe, i^enA. Avfz. d. Col. p. 10 ; id. Troch. Enum. p. 8, 



pi. / / 4. If . 4/94-7 ; Muls. ^ Verr. Class. Troch. p, 35. ^ 



Ohlorestes (i. Smaragditis marise, Reich. Azifz. d. Col. p 7 

 .Saucerottia maria, ^jo. i?ey. Zoo/. 1854, p. 254. 

 Chlorestes maris, Reich. Troch. Enwn. p. 4, pi. 695 f 4549 

 Pyrrhophaena beryllina, Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p.36; Muls. 



Hist. A at. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 303, iv. p. 182; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. 



Lyon, xxu. p. 206. 

 Amazilia beryllina, Gould, Mon. Troch. v. pi. 312 (July 1861)- 



td.Intr. Troch. p. 159 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 314 ; id. P. Z. S 1864 



p. U 7 ; A. Diujh, La Nat. i. p. 141 ; Villada, La Nat. ii. p. 364 1 



de Oca, La 2s at in. p. 23 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 221 ; Ridyw. Man. 



i>. Am. B. p. 317. 

 Eranna beryllina, Heine, J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 188. 

 Polytiims beryllinus. Gray ,' Hand-l . B. i. p. 132. 

 Amazilis beryllinu?, Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 410 

 Amaziha maris, Feirari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mm. ix. p. 158. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining golden green, becoming more 

 golden on the crown, and passing through bronze on the rump to 

 rich purple-bronze on the upper taU-coverts; under surface 

 glittering grass-green, passing into greyish chestnut on the lower 

 abdomen, and rich chestnut edged with buff on the under tail- 

 coyerts ; tail shining purple-bronze : maxilla black; mandible flesh- 

 J^f°J^' tip black. Total length about 4 inches, wing 2-1, tail 1-3, 



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