394 Genera of Hiimniing Birds. 



r Hermite de Gounelle. 



Habitat. — Brazil. 



Male. — Head dark bronzy-green encircled by a rufous bar. 

 Upperside bronze-green with the base of feathers buiTy-gray. 

 Uppertail-coverts bronzy-green margined with buff. Median 

 rectrices bronze-green for nearly the whole of their length, 

 with a narrow brownish-black subterminal bar and white tips, 

 lateral and outermost ones green at base with a broad sub- 

 terminal black bar and largely tipped with white. Line over 

 and behind the eye pale buff, joining the rufous bar of neck. 

 Ear-coverts black. From the maxilla a pale buff line passing 

 into buff under the ear-coverts. A blackish line in the centre 

 of throat. Rest of underside buff passing to buffy-white on 

 flanks and abdomen. Undertail-coverts buff paler than that 

 of the breast. Wings purple. Maxilla black. Mandible 

 flesh-colour for a little over half its size, the rest black. 



Total length, 4iin. Wing, 2. Tail, 2. Culmen, 1. 



This species has nothing to do with P. nattereri, as 

 suggested by Mr. Salvin in the Catalogue of Birds of the 

 British Museum, vol. xvi. I sent the type to Count Berlepsch, 

 who had the type of P. nattereri at the time, and, after 

 comparison, he wrote saying that there was not the least 

 resemblance between the two species. 



537. Anisoterus pretrii, Less, and Delattre, Rev. Zool., 



1839, p. 20. 



Trochiliis superciliosus, Max. Beitr., vol. iv., p. 116. 



Phaethornis pretrei, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 104. 



Pretre's Hermit, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. i, p. 28. 



Le Phaethornis de Pretre, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1873, t. i., p. 73. 



Habitat. — Brazil. 



Male. — Upperside bronzy-green. L^ppertail coverts buff. 

 Median rectrices bronzy-green for two-thirds of their length, 

 remainder white. Lateral and outermost ones shining bronzy- 

 green at base, succeeded by a broad black bar and tipped 

 with pure white. Throat light buff in the centre. Entire 

 underside deep buff. Wings purple. Lines under and behind 

 the eye buff. Maxilla black. Mandible flesh colour (coral in 

 life) with black tip. 



