5-). AMAZILIA. 227 



rectrix but oiie on one side only purple, the rest being of the 

 normal colour. This feather I suppose to be an old one, altered by 

 exposure to light. 



The colour of the back in this bird varies from reddish coppery to 

 green, and it is quite the exception to find a specimen as green as 

 represented in Gould's plate. The lighter brighter tail alone seems 

 to separate A. felicice from A. erythrnnota ; but the difference is so 

 slight rhat it is more than probable that both these birds and 

 A. tohaci will have to be placed under one specific name. 



The specimen mentioned by Gould as having purple tips to the 

 lateral rectrices is immature. 



Hah. Venezuela. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Venezuela. E. Dyson ^C.]. 



c-e. Ad. sk. Venezuela {Dyson). Gould Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Venezuela, Gould Coll. 



y. Juv. sk. Orinoco. Gould Coll. 



/(-/. Ad.sk. Caracas, Venezuela (irtH.s- Could Coll. 



berg). 



k. Ad. sk. Santa Cruz de Orinoco, Prov. Gould Coll. 



Barcelona, Venezuela. 



I. Ad. sk. Venezuela (Gueriny). Salvin-Godnian ColL 



tn. Ad. sk. Venezuela. Sclater Coll. 



n.o. Ad.sk. Y (iould Coll. 



29. Amazilia elegans. 



Ervthronota ? elegans, Gndd, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 307. 



Erytlironota elegans, Goidd, Mon. Troch. y. pi. :i20 (Sept. 1861); 



id. Intr. Truck, p. 162. 

 Erasinia elegans, Heine, J.f. Orn. 1863, p. 101. 

 Arania elegans, Muls. S^ Verr. Class. Troch. p. .'iO. 

 Sporadinus iucertus, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Sloue/ies, ii. p. 76 ; Eudes- 



Desl. Ann. Mus. Cafn, i. p. 505. 

 Amazilia elegans, Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 226 ; Shirpe in Gould's Muh. 



Troch. Suppl. (March 1887). 



Adult. Similar to that of A. erytkronofa, but of a brighter, more 

 golden glittering green ; bill shorter and moi'e slender ; tail dark 

 purple-bronze (not steel-blue) and more deeply forked ; under tail- 

 coverts bronzy green edged with dusky white. 



Hab. Unknown. 



a. Ad. sk. ? Gould ColL 



(Type of the species.) 



30. Amazilia cyanifrons. 



Trochilus cyanifrons, Bourc. Ann. 8<\ Phi/s. et Nat. Lynn, vi. p. 42 



(1843); id. Eer. Zool. 1843, p. 100. 

 Thalurania cyanifrons, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 77. 

 Chlorestes y. Saucerottia cyanifron.'^, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 8. 

 Saucerottia cyanifrau.s, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 1o5 ; Gould, Mon, 



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