12 Description of New Species of Birds from 



dark green, more or less mixed with violet-blue, rvimp and upper tail 

 coverts deep violet-blue ; front, cheeks, chin, and throat black ; breast 

 fine violet-blue, connecting with the same color on the hind neck ; 

 abdomen and under tail coverts very deep orange, sides dark grayish 

 slate-color, thighs sooty black ; two middle tail feathers green, with a 

 decided wash of blue, the outer webs of the next two feathers are of 

 the same color, the inner webs black — the ends of all these end nar- 

 rowly with black, the outer three feathers are white, their concealed 

 bases being black ; wings black ; the quill feathers have their bases 

 white, the primaries are narrowly edged with white for two-thirds 

 their length ; the iipper mandible is whitish horn-color, with the base 

 pale plumbeous, the under is dark plumbeous ; feet dark brown, the 

 soles yellow. 



Mr. J. Galbraith, in his note of this species, says, " very common, 

 light blue about the eyes, irides brown." 



Length (fresh) 10^ in. ; wing 5f ; tail 6 ; tarsi \. 



The female is of a plumbeous slate-color, grayish on the bi-east, the 

 abdomen and under tail coverts orange ; primaries of a i-ich dark 

 brown ; the wing coverts and smaller quills are black, crossed with 

 very narrow undulating white lines, rather widely separated ; tail 

 blackish-brown, with a purplish gloss, the thi-ee lateral feathers are 

 white at their ends, the outer web of the outer feather is barred with 

 white, and has a few irregular bars of the same color on the inner 

 web, both webs of the next feather also have a few white bars. 



Habitat. Isthmus of Panama. Types in my collection. 



Remarhs. In my catalogue of birds from Panama, I in- 

 cluded tliis species as T. viridis, Linn. ; but as it differs so 

 materially from that species, I consider it to be distinct. 



In general coloration it somewhat resembles T. viridis, but 

 is rather smaller ; the back is mixed M^ith violet-blue, and the 

 rump is of a more intense violet-blue color ; the wash of blue on 

 the tail is more apparent, and the orange of the under parts is 

 of a deeper shade ; but the most distinguishing character is 

 that of the outer tail feathers, which have a much greater ex- 

 tent of white on their terminal portions, when the tail is closed, 

 the under side appears entirely white, the black bases being 



