262 Mr. D. G. Elliot on some Typical 



lighter green than the back, and reach to tlie fork of the tail. 

 The entire throat is a pale metallic grass-grccii. Rest of 

 underparts pale smoky brown, with some of the flank-feathers 

 tipped with grass-green. U nder tail-coverts long, same colour 

 as the abdomen (smoky brown), with a slight metallic greenish 

 lustre in the centre of the feathers. Tail long, deeply forked, 

 dark purplish brown, feathers very narrow. Wings brown, 

 with a purple tinge, only reaching down to a little over one 

 third the length of tail. Bill and feet black. 



Entire length 4| inches, wing If, tail 2, bill along 

 gape |. 



This genus should be i)laced close to the Smaragdochnjsis 

 iridesceas, Gould, and with it represents a group having their 

 nearest afl&nities to the members of the genus Selasphorus. 



The next typical specimen is Phaethornis abnormis, also 

 described by Herr von Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. pp. 27, 56. In 

 our article on the genus Phaethornis , Ibis, 1873, p. 13, this 

 was referred to P. bourcieri by Mr. Salvin, he having seen 

 the type in Vienna. Herr Pelzeln, thinking that, not having 

 the specimen before us when our article was written, there 

 might possibly have been an error in our conclusions regard- 

 ing its specific value, kindly sent the type to me. I find that 

 Mr. Salvin's recollection of the specimen was perfectly cor- 

 rect ; for the bird agrees precisely with my specimens of P. 

 bourcieri; and our determination that P. abnormis must only 

 rank as a synonym, was an entirely just conclusion. 



CePHALEPIS BESKIl. 



This specimen might easily be taken for a variety of C. de- 

 lalandii, to which it bears a certain resemblance. It differs 

 from the common species in having the crest a bluish metallic 

 green, instead of bright green, in the back and tail being brown 

 only slightly tinged with green, and having the breast light 

 blue (in some, light dull brownish black) . I have had for a 

 long time in my collection a specimen that I have always con- 

 sidered to be a variety of C. delalandii, which resembles the 

 type of C. beskii in every particular save two. The crest, in- 

 stead of being a metallic green, is a shiny black, with a kind 



