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a. S ad. sk. [Brazil.] Salvin-Goclmau Coll. 



h. (S juv. sk. Novo Fribourgo, Prov. Rio, Gould Coll. 



Brazil {^Reeves). (Type of species.) 



e. $ ad. sk. Brazil. Gould Coll. 



3. Eucephala pyropygia. 



Eucepliala pyropygia, Salv. ^ Godm. Ibis, 1881, p. 596, pi. 16; Sharpe 

 in Gould's Mon. Troch. Suppl. (Jan. 1883). 



Adult male. Upper surface shining golden green, shading into 

 reddish bronze on the ramp and purple-bronze on the upper tail- 

 coverts ; crown glittering bluish green ; breast glittering blue, 

 shading into green on the sides of the neck and middle of the 

 abdomen ; flanks shining green ; under tail-coverts coppery green ; 

 tail steel-blue ; bill black. Total length about 3-4 inches, wing 1'9, 

 tail (nearly even) 1-1, bill 0-9. 



Hab. ? 



a. (S ad. sk. ? Salvin-Godman Coll. (Type of species.) 



4. Eucephala chlorocephala. 



Hylocharis ehlorocephalus, Bourc. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 457 ; Bp, Rev, 



Zool. 1854, p. 255. 

 Agyi'tria chlorocephala, Reich. Troch. Enum. p. 7. 

 Lepidopygia chlorocephala, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 40. 

 Eucephala chlorocephala, Gould, Mon. Troch. v. pi. 332 (July 1861); 



id. Intr. Troch. p. 166 ; Elliot, Ibis, 1874, p. 88 ; id. Syn. Troch. 



p. 231 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, ii. p. 29, iv. p. 189 ; id. 



Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 208 ; Eudes-Desl. Ami. Mus. Caen, 



i. p. 452. 

 Chrysolanipis (Eucephala) chlorocephala, Mids. Sf Verr. Class. Troch. 



p. 41. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining green, upper tail-coverts 

 slightly tinged with bronze ; crown glittering green, slightly tinged 

 with blue ; under surface glittering grass-green ; longer under tail- 

 coverts dingy white, with dark shafts ; shorter coverts dingy white, 

 with green discs ; tail steel-blue ; bill brown, base of the mandible 

 flesh-colour. Total length about 4 inches, wing 2-1 ; tail, central 

 rcctrices 1-1, lateral 1'4; bill 0-95. 



Hah. Ecuador? 



a. cJ ad. sk. " Guarauda, Ecuador" (J. Bourcier). Gould Coll. 



(Tj'pe of species.) 



5. Eucepliala cserulea. 



L'Oiseau-Mouche a goisier bleu, Aud. Ois. Dor. i. p. 99, pi. 40. 

 Trochilus ca^ruleus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. N. vii. p. 361 ; id. Enc, 



Mcth. p. 563. 

 Ornismya audeberti. Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, pp. xxx, 164, 



pi. 51. 

 Trochilus audeberti. Less. Ind. G6n. Troch. p. xxxvii ; Wied, Beitr, 



iv. p. 67. 

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