90. TOPAZA. 



333 



green ; wings dark purple ; inner primaries, except the tips and the 

 secondaries, cinnamon ; central rectrices bronze with black tips next 

 pair long, curving- outwards, purple-black, lateral rectrices' cin- 

 namon : bill black; feet hazel. Total length about 7 inches 

 wmg 3-1 ; tail, pair next the central rectrices (chord) 3-3, central 

 pair 1-9; bill 1-25. k / , ax 



AcMf female. Upper surface shining grass-green ; beneath a little 

 brighter and more golden, throat in the middle shining crimson • 

 tail purple-black except the central pair of feathers, which are 

 deep grass-green, and the two laterals on either side, which are 

 chiefly cinnamon towards the distal end. 



Hab. Guiana. 



a. (^ ad.; 6. 5 Bartica Grove, Brit. Guiana, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ad. sk. May & Sppt. (H. Whiteli,). 



c. ¥ ad. sk. R..\tapu_row, Brit. Guiana, Jan. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



'^~%ifx^'''- ^"^'^'■•''"''''' Salvin-Godman & 



./. S ad. ; A:, c^ N. Brazil 



Gould Colls. 



juv, 



sk. ^^- brazil. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



% ad'^tk '"' ■'■ ^^^-''^'^"^ '"^ke.) Salvin-Godman & 



/ J' ;,„i -i' /r^ ■, , Gould Colls, 



^.d juv.sk. (Cayenne make.) Purchased. 



«. 2 ad. St. Demerara. Purchased. 



''• ^ ^^- '^- Purchased. 



2. Topaza pyra. 



Trochilus (Topaza) pyra, Gould, P. Z. S. 1846, p 85 

 Topaza vjr^, Grmj Gm. B. i. p. 110; id. Hand-l. B.i. p 134- Gould 

 Mnn. Trock, n. pL 65 (Nov. 1851); >d. Intr. Trol^etif 



Co<. p. Jl id. rrocJi. Enum. p. 9, pi. 798 ff AR^(\ ^7 ■ Onh i 

 Heme, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 16 ; ScL^ Sal Pz] timZ i£lJ. 

 Elhot, Syn. Trock p 9^5; Eudes-Besl. Ann: MnsCa^^iffiS ' 

 Trochilus pyra, ^ds. S^ Verr. Class. Troch. p. 45 ; M^ds Hht Nat 

 O.^Mouches, n.p.l27, pi. 38; id. AnJsoc.'zin,"^:!:,^^, 



Achat male. Similar to that of T.jyella, but redder on the upper 

 surface, a more conspicuous golden spot on the throat, no cinnamon 

 on the wings, and the lateral rectrices wholly purple-black instead 

 of cinnamon. • r z «. msieciu 



Adult female. Has the lateral rectrices purple-black, with the 

 outer web of the outermost feather on either side dull cinnamon 

 JJab. Kio Negro Valley and Eastern Ecuador. 



""ii'lf'' '^"^ Rotuno, Ecuador (5McA;/py). Salvin-Godman & 



*-V d ad. ; J. d Rio No^^-o. GouW CoS^^'^T 



juv. :A-. 5 ad. 8k. „r L • ^T^P^' 



"t the species.) 



