May 1, 1922 Vol. VIII. pp. 27-28 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 



A NEW HUMMINGBIRD FROM SURINAM 



BY THOMAS EDWARD PENARD 



Among the birds collected on my recent visit to Surinam 

 I have found a new hummingbird which I propose to name 



Heteroglaucis philippinae spec. nov. 



Type. — Collection of T. E. Penard, no. 2020 (now Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology, no. 86,893), adult; Surinam: Lelydorp, 13 September, 

 1921; collected by Alex Pichot. 



Specific characters. — Similar in coloration to Glaucis hirsuta hirsuta 

 (Gmelin), but head almost wholly greenish bronze and under parts much 

 darker. Bill conspicuously different from that of Glaucis, being heavier 

 and less strongly decurved, with a yellow border on each side of the culmen. 



Description of the type. — Upper parts, including head, metallic greenish 

 bronze passing into dusky on forehead. Upper tail-coverts broadly mar- 

 gined with buffy white to whitish, the central portions of the feathers 

 bronzy green. Middle pair of rectrices bronzy green, less metallic than the 

 back, narrowly tipped with white, dusky subterminally, with narrow 

 chestnut shaft lines. Remaining rectrices chestnut with a broad, black 

 subterminal band (purplish black in lower aspect), tipped narrowly with 

 white; outer web of lateral rectrices margined with black. Remiges dusky, 

 glossed with violet. Feathers of edge of wing with narrow buffy margins. 



