nn. niAKTIHiRNIS. 1'70 



Troch. p. 12; Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mits. Caen, i. p. 121; Tacs. 



P. Z. S. 1882, p. 34; id. Om. Per. i. p. 267: Salr. Ibis, 1885, 



p. 431. 

 Ametrornis boiircieri, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 14 ; Cab. Sf Seine, 



3Ius. Hein. ii. p. 10. 

 Ametrornis abnormis, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 14 ; Pelz. Om. Bras. 



pp. 27, 56. 

 Orthornis boiircieri, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 249. 

 Phaethornis whitelyi, Boucard, The Humming Bird, i. p. 18 (Mnr. 



1891). 



Adult. Upper surface dark bronze-green, the feathers of the 

 lower back and upper tail-coverts tipped with buff and with a sub- 

 terminal dark band; superciliarj' and malar stripes buff; ear- 

 coverts dark ; under surface greyish buff, lighter in the middle line ; 

 tail bronze-green, the central elongated rectrices white towards 

 their tips, the rest blacker towards their ends and tipped with buff: 

 maxilla black : mandible pale flesh- colour, the tip black. Total 

 length about 5-5 inches, wing 2-2, tail 2-2, lateral rectrices 1, 

 bill 1-4. 



Female like the male. 



Hah. Guiana and the Amazons Valley to the base of the Andes 

 of Ecuador and Peru. 



a. Ad. sk. Canelos, Ecuador [BucJcky). Gould Coll. 



h, c. Ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Bucldey). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d, e. Ad. sk. Peruviau Amazons {E. Burtlett). Gould Coll. 



/,(-/. c? fid. sk. Pebas, Amazons, April, June (/. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



IIau.rwell). 



h. S <id. sk. Camacusa, Brit. Guiana, April Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{H. WhUely). 



i. 2 ad.sk. Merume INIts., Brit. Guiana, . I idy Salvin-Godman Coll, 



{H. W.). 



j. 2 ad. sk. R. Atapurow, Brit. Guiana, Jan. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{H. W.). 



k. c? ad. sk. Pioraima, Brit. Giuana, Nov. Salvin-Godman CoU. 



{H. W.). 



l-o. Ad. sk. (Cayenne make.) Gould & Sclater 



CoUs. 



16. Phaethornis philippii. 



Trochihis philippii, Bourc. ^- Muls. Ami. So. Phys, ef Xat. Lyoni 



X. p. 623 (1847). 

 Trochilus filippi, Bourc. Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 401. 

 Phaethoruis philippii, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 68 ; Gould, Mon. Troch. 



i. pi. 21 (Sept. 1855) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 43 ; Muls. 8,- Verr. Class. 



Troch. p. 18 ; Salv. S; Elliot, Ibis, 1873, p. 13 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. 



Ois.-Mouches, i. Y}. 27 ; id. Ann. Soc. Lin7i. Lyon, xxii. p. 201; 



Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 12 ; Scl. 8; Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 027 ; 



Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 123. 

 Ametrornis defilippi, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 14 ; Cab. 8; Heine, Mus. 



Hein. iii. p. 10. 



Adult. Upper surface dark bronze-green, crown darker, each 

 feather with a fulvous tip and a subtcrminal dark bar, more con- 



