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with buff. Stripe over ;md beliiiid the eyo buffy-white ; auricuhirs diuk brown. 

 Uiuler parts grayisli-white tinged with buff on abdomen and flanks. Feathers 

 of chin and throat with a central streak of dark brown. Wings purplish- 

 brown. Tail pale shining green, with a subterniinal black bar, and tipped witli an 

 arrow-headed mark of white; ccn'^ral feathers having their jirolonged tips all white. 

 Maxilla black, mandible ficsh-color, tip black. Total length, 5g in. Wing, 2j in. 

 Tail, 2.^ in. Culmen, 1-'^ in. 



13. Fhaethomis enrynome. 



Trnchilus eurynomc, Lkss., Troch., p. 91, t. 31 (1831). 



Phcethorms exirt/nomc, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 104, sp. 5. — Gobi.d, Mon. Trocli.. vol. i, pi. 16. — Id., Intr. 



Troch., octavo cd., p. 41. — Cab. and Hei.v., Mus. Heiu. Th., iii, p. 9, sp. 12 (1860). — .SAL%^ aud Kli.iot, 



Ibis (1873), p. 8.— Von Peiz.. Orn. Bras., p. 27. 

 Phmhornia vielanotis, Reich., Troch. Enura., p. 12 (18.5.5). 



Pli/omornis eurynome, Reich., Aufz. dcr Colib., p. 14 (18.53). — Id., Troch. Enum., p. 12 (1855). 

 Phaetornis eurynomus, Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (18.54), p. 249. — Id., Coosp. Av., p. 69, vol. i (1850). 

 PiKxIomis eurynome, MuLs., Hist. Nat. Ois. Monch., torn, i, p. 80. 



Hob. Brazil, southern portion. 



Top of head blackish-brown, each feather margined with bright rufous, nape 

 nearly clear rufous in some specimens, in others like the* top of head. Upper sur- 

 face shining green, feathers edged with brown and rufous, giving this part a scaly 

 appearance. A buff line above and behind the eye, and a broader one down the 

 sides of the throat. Cheeks and car coverts brownish-black. Throat brownish- 

 black margined with buff. Breast grayish-brown, rest of under parts buff. Tail 

 has the basal portion shining green, same color as the back, succeeded by black, 

 and the tips edged with white in the form of an inverted V. Apical half of median 

 rectrices, which are longer than the rest, white. Maxilla black. Mandible flesh- 

 color, tip black. Total length, 61 in. Wing, 2| in. Tail, 2| in. Culmen, 1.^ in. 



14. Fhaethomis squalidus. 



Trochtlus squalidus, Temm., PI. Col., 120, fig. 1 (1823), ex Natt. MS. 



Phallwrnis leucophrys. Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 104, sp. 10.^ — Reicb., Aufz. der Colib., p. 14 (1853). 



Phcrthornis brasiliensis. Gray (iiec Lath.), Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 104, sp. 10 (1844-49). 



Trochilus leucophrys, "LicHT," Nordm., Reis. Att.. p. 2, .sp. 18. 



Phcethornis intermedium, GorLD (nee Less.), Mon. Troch., vol. i, pi. 30. 



Phcetornis squalidus, Bo.n., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (1854). p. 249. — Id., Consp. Av., p. 68. — Mi'LS., Hist. Nat. 



Ois. Mouch.. torn, i, p. 77. 

 Phfethornis sqzmlidus, Reich., Aufz. der Colib., p. 14 (1853).— Id., Troch. Enuni., p. 12 (185.5).— Cab. and 



Hein., Mus. Hein. Th., iii, p. 8 (I860).— Gould., Intr. Troch., octavo cd., p. 45.— Salv. and Elliot, Ibis 



(1873), p. 9. 

 Ptyomornis intermedia, Reich., Aufz. dcr Colib.. p. 14. — Id., Troch. Enum., p. 12 (1855). 



Hah. Southern Brazil. 



Head dark brown; rest of upper surface bronzy-brown; feathers of upper tail 

 coverts margined with buff. Wings purple. A line above and behind the eye 

 buff. Throat dark brown. Entire under surface buff, darkest on sides of the neck 

 and flanks. Base of tail feathers bronze-green, succeeded by a black band, and 

 tipped with buff. The green on the middle pair graduates into brown, and this 



3 July, 1878. 



