120 Genera of Hiniuning Birds. 



This species was dedicated by- Mess. Bourcier and Mulsant 

 to Doctor Pucheran. 



It is abundant in Brazil. 



165. Chlorostilbon wiedi, N. Sp. 



IVied's E Die raid. 



P Enter ande de Wied. 



Habitat. — Brazil. 



Male. — Crown metallic-gold. Upperside golden-green. 

 Throat metallic emerald-green. Breast, abdomen, flanks, and 

 undertail-coverts metallic golden-green. Wings purplish- 

 brown. Tail steel-blue. Maxilla, half of it, flesh colour, rest 

 black. Mandible flesh colour with black tip. 



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



Female. — Exactly like the preceding species. 



I have several specimens of this new species, collected in 

 Brazil, by Delattre, with the name of Wiedi on the label, 

 so I thought very appropriate to keep it, in memory of Prince 

 Maximilian de Wied. 



*i66. Chlorostilbon egregius, Heine, Journ. fur Ornith, 

 1863, p. 198. 



Hylocharis bicolor, Burm., S.Ueb., ii, p. 348. 



Hylocharis flavifrons, Pelz., Orn. Bras. p. 33. 



Trochilus audeberti, Var, Wied, Beitr. Nat. Gesch. Bras, 

 t. iv., p. 69. 



Taquaras E?nerald. 



IJ Emeraude de Taqnara. 



Habitat. — Taquara, Brazil. 



Intermedius quasi statura rostrique longitudine ac vigore 

 inter C. phacthontem, et C. piicherani ; hoc vero omnino 

 similior splendore smaragdineo-virente potius quam flavido- 

 aurescente, gutture splendidissime secundum quandam solis 

 lucem in colorem sapphirino-smaragdineum nonnihil vergente. 



Long tot., 3 " 7 '", al, i " 9^ '". caud, i " 3 '". Culm., 8 "". 



Type in Berlin Museum. 



