Genera of Humming Birds. 385 



Male. — Upperside pale golden-green, brownish on head. 

 Uppertail-coverts golden-green, with rufous edges. Throat 

 black. Lines under and above the eyes, pale rufous. Ear 

 coverts black. Breast, abdomen, and flanks rufous-gray. 

 Undertail- coverts white. Median rectrices bronze - green, 

 paler near the tips, which are white, the next one of the same 

 colour with the edges near the tip, and the tip white. Rest 

 of lateral and outermost ones bronze at base, then purplish- 

 black with white tips. Wings purplish-brown. Maxilla black. 

 Mandible flesh colour for two-thirds of its length, the rest 

 black. 



Total length, 4|in. Wing, i|. Tail, 2. Culmen, i. 



Type in my collection. 



This pretty species was discovered by Mr. H. Whitely on 

 the river Rupununi, not Rupurumi, as formerly stated; hence 

 the change of orthography in the name of this species. 



*523. MiLORNiS NATTERERI, Berlepsch, Ibis, 1887, p. 290. 



Phaethornis nattereri, Berlepsch, Ibis, 1887, p. 290. 



Phaethornis longuem,areus, Pelz., Orn. Bras., p. 27. 



Natterer's Hermit. 



le Milornis de Natterer. 



Habitat. — Matogrosso, Brazil. 



Ph. longuemarei 2i^r\\s, differt rectricibus omnibus imprimis 

 externis multo angustioribus intermediis inter apicem album 

 et basin pallidius bronzinum griseo-brunneis (nee nigre- 

 scentibus) submediis ante apicem album laete rufis, externis 

 apice et extus latissime rufis, corpore subtus pallidiore, 

 nigredine gulae vel nulla vel inconspicua ; tectricibus sub- 

 caudalibus fulvis, nee albis, supracaudalibus fere unicoloribus 

 badio rufis. 



Long tot. circ, 100, al., 48-45!, rect. intermed., 47-44, sub- 

 med., 34^-34, extern., 20^-185, rostr., 24^-22'i m.m. 



This species was discovered by Natterer, and confused with 

 P. longuemarei. The most important point of distinction 

 seems to consist in the form of the tail feathers, which in 

 Ph. nattereri are rather harrow, while they are usually broad 

 in P. longuemarei. The colouration of the tail is also 

 different, the two middle feathers being pale brownish-gray 



