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SYNOPSIS OF THE U U M M I N G-B IR D S. 



Female. Top of head metallic bluish-green. Upper surface and wing coverts 

 dark bronze-green. Wings purplish-brown. Under surface white, spangled with 

 metallic bluish-green on the throat and flanks. Under tail coverts white with green 

 centres. Median reetrices and outer webs of lateral ones dark grass-green. Inner 

 webs white. Total length, -If in. Wing, 2| in. Tail, If in. Culmen, | in. 



3. Eustephanus leyboldi. 



Eustephanus leyholdi, Goui.d, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (1870), p. 406.— Mols., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., vol. ii, 

 p. 251. 



Huh. Island of Mas-a-fuera. 



Male. Precisely like the E. fernandensis, with the exception that the metallic- 

 red of the crown extends over the occiput. Total length, 5| in. Wing, 3j?g in. 

 Tail, 2-5 in. Culmen, | in. 



Female. Similar to the female of E. fernandensis, but differs chiefly in the tail 

 feathers, which have the basal portion of the inner webs and all the outer webs 

 green, leaving only the apical part of the inner ones white. The spots on the 

 throat are bronzy and disposed in lines, and not generally dispersed as in the 

 female of E. fernandensis. 



Genus XL VI.— TOPAZ A. 



Polytmus, BoiE (nee Briss., 1760), I.sis, p. .WS (1831). 



Tftp aza, Gray, Li.st of Genera of Birds {18-10), p. 13. 



L amp mis, Keich. (ncc Swains., 1827), Sjst. Av. Nat. (1849), t. 39. 



Fig. 40. 



Type. 

 T. pella, Linn. 

 T. pclla, Linn. 

 T. pella, liinn. 



Tojiazn pe^ta. d" aj. Cayenne. Boaroier. 



C7i. Bill stout, curved, longer than the head. Wings long. Tail rounded, 

 feathers on either side of central pair, narrow and elongated far beyond the rest, 

 crossing each other at the tips of the other reetrices. Tarsi bare, feet rather large. 



Range. Trinidad, Cayenne, and head waters of the Amazon, Eio Negro. 



Two species are known. 



