252 TEocniLi. 



xxii. p. 207 ; Elliot, Ibis, 1877, p. 140 ; id. Syn. Troch. p. 169 ; 



Scl. cS- Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 630; Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mns. Caen, 



i. p. 433. 

 Chrysiirisca cbrysura, Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 42. 

 Hylocbaris clirysura, MuU, S)- Verr. Class. Troch. p. 38. 

 Polytnius chrysurus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 133. 

 Clirysuronia riificollis, Berl.J. f. Orn. 1887, pp. 18, 120; Scl. ^ 



finds. Arg. Orn. ii. p. 8. 



Adult male. Upper surface shininp; golden green, darker on the 

 crown, more bronzy on the upper tail-coverts ; under surface buff, 

 a golden-bronze discal spot on each of the feathers of the throat ; 

 under tail-coverts and tail glittering golden bronze ; bill flesh- 

 colour, the tip black. Total length about 4 inches, wing 2-1, tail 1-2, 

 bill 0-9. 



Female. Similar to the male, but with the throat duller, the 

 lateral rcctrices tipped with grey, and the upper tail-coverts shining 

 golden green like the back. 



Hah. Southern Brazil, Paraguay, and the Argentine Republic. 



a-c. (S ad.sk. Peru? Gould & Sclater 



Colls. 

 d. 2 ad. sk. Engenho de Gama, Matto Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Grosso, July {J. Natterer.) 

 ^,f- 6 fid. ; r/. 5 Cbapada, Matto Grosso, June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ad.sk. {H.H.Smith), 



h. c? ad. sk. Conchitas, Buenos Ayi'es Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{Htidso7i). 

 i. cS ad. sk. Buenos Ayres, April. Goidd Coll. 



./. S ad. ; Ii. Juv.; Punta Lara, Buenos Ajres, H. Durnford [C.]. 

 /. 5 ad. sk. Jan., Feb. 



63. BASILINNA. 



Basilinna, Bote, Isis, 1831, p. 546 B. leucotis. 



Heliopfedica, Gould, Mon. Troch. (May 1858) B. leucotis. 



Banr/e. Lower California, Mexico, and Guatemala. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Abdomen dusky white ; lateral rectrices steel-blue, 



tipped with bronze leucotis, p. 252. 



b. ^Vbdomen and lateral rectrices chestnut .vantusi, p. 255. 



1. Basilinna leucotis. 



Trocbilus leucotis, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. N. xviii. p. 428 ; id. Enc. 



Meth. p. 559. 

 Trocbilus lucidus, Shau; Gen. Zool. viii. p. ■)27 ? 

 Trocbilus melanotus, Swains. Phil. May. n. s. i. p. 441. 

 Trocbilus cuculiger, LicM. Preis-Verz. Mew., Voy. p. 1 : cf. .T.f. Orn. 



1863, p. 55. 



