Hans von Berlepscli on new Trochilidte. 297 



Habitat in Antioquia ; Terico or Carauianto {fide Schmey) . 

 Specimen typ. unic. in Mus. H. v. B. asservatuni (no. 6688). 



The type of this description was forwarded to me in Oc- 

 tober 1879 by a dealer^ Mr. Schmey, of Coburg,. together 

 with other skins received directly from the districts of Terico 

 and Caramanto, in Antioquia. 



Chi. comptus, Berl., evidently comes nearest to Chi. mela- 

 norhynchus, Gould (=^angustipennis, Elliot, nee Fras.), of 

 Quito; but having examined a large number of skins of the 

 latter species, I have satisfied myself that the characters by 

 which the Antioquian bird differs from them, although small, 

 are well founded. They consist chiefly in the different lustre 

 of the upper parts of the head, which is of an exceedingly 

 beautiful coppery-golden hue (being greenish golden in Chi. 

 melanorhynchus) . The back is also more indued with coppery 

 bronze ; the throat and breast appear more golden, instead of 

 bluish green. The abdomen is much moi'e golden. The tail- 

 feathers are somewhat narrower and of a more greenish steel- 

 blue. The bill is somewhat shorter and slendei'er ; the wings 

 also shorter ; the tail, on the contrary, is rather longer than 

 in true Chi. melanorhynchus . 



6. Chlorostilbon subfurcatus, sp. nov. 



Chlorostilbon prasinus, Salvin (nee Leas.), Ibis, 1885, 

 p. 436 (Roraima). 



^ pileo squaraoso, regione mystacali, mento genisque 

 splendidissime aureis; gula, jugulo pectoreque superiore 

 splendidissime aureo-viridibus Ccerulescente lavatis : 

 abdomine splendide seneo-viridi, aureo perfuso, corpore 

 superiore reliquo obscurius aureo-viridi semilucenle : 

 caudse subfurcatse rectricibus chalybeo-nigris : rostro 

 nigro. 

 (J foeminse Chi. atala (Less.) simillima. 

 Obs. Chi. a Chi. prasino (Less.), ex Cayenna, cui affinis, 

 jugulo cserulescente et cauda subfurcata nee rotundata, necnon 

 alls caudaque multo longioribus, a Chi. daphne, '' Boarc.,^' 

 Gould, rostro multo breviore, jugulo minus Igete cserulescente 

 et Cauda distinctius furcata, distinguendus. 



