124 Genera of Hiinnning Birds. 



Total length, 3|in. Wing, i|. Tail, if. Culmen, f. 



Female. — Upperside bronze-green, duller on head. Under- 

 tail-coverts shining green. Underside whitish-gray, speckled 

 with bronze-green on sides of breast and flanks. Median 

 rectrices green, with bluish tips, lateral green at base, then 

 steel-blue with white tips. Bill black. 



Total length, 3|in. Wing, i|. Tail, i^. Culmen, \^. 



I have not been able to see any difference between the 

 specimens which I have from Columbia, collected at Antioquia, 

 Columbia, by Mr. Salmon, and those collected by Buckley at 

 Ecuador. Therefore I think 'Oi\2XChlorostilbon melanorhynchus, 

 comptus, Berlepsch is not a valid species. 



173. ChlorostilbON ASSIMILIS, Lawr., Ann., N.Y., Lye. 



Nat. His., i860, p. 292. 



Chlorolafupis assimilis, Heine., Journ. fur Ornith., 1863, 

 p. 202. 



Veragna Emerald. 



Emeraude de Veragiia. 



Habitat. — Veragua and Colon (Panama). 



Male. — Upperside shining golden-green. Throat metallic 

 golden-green with greenish reflections, rest of underside 

 metallic golden. Undertail-coverts shining green. Tail purple- 

 blue. Wings purplish-black. Bill black. A tuft of white 

 feathers under vent. 



Total length, 2|in. Wing, if. Tail, i|-. Culmen, -^-^. 



Female. — Like the preceding species, but much smaller. 



This species is closely allied to the preceding, but much 

 smaller, easily to be distinguished by the golden-reddish 

 colour of the upperside, and the colour of its tail. 



The specimens in my collection were collected by Arce in 

 ^'eragua, and by me at Colon. 



1 have another male specimen collected by me, at Panama 

 in December, 1876, which is of the same size, with all the 

 upperside shining green, and all the underside metallic 

 emerald-green. 1 propose the name of Chlorostilbon 

 panamensis for it, if it should prove new. 



174. Chlorostilbon atala. Less, Hist. Nat. Troch., 183 1, 



p. 118. 

 Hylocharis atala, Gray, Gen. Birds, 1844-49, vol. i., p. 115 



