404 On an" apparently new Species of Humming-bird. 



whitish ; a dusky spot at the end of the cell, and two dusky 

 discal stripes parallel to the outer margin ; a marginal row of 

 blackish spots; outer border of male white, fringe white: 

 body white, thorax greyish ; abdomen of male with lateral 

 dusky belts ; antennae with ferruginous pectinations. Below 

 sordid white with a black spot closing each discoidal cell ; a 

 discal dusky stripe, forking in the male ; this sex also with 

 dusky subcostal and median longitudinal streaks; female with 

 dusky marginal spots in the primaries. Expanse, S 2 inches 

 1 line, ? 2 inches 8 lines. 

 Yokohama {Jonas). 



[To be continued.] 



LII. — Description of an apparently n^w Species of Humming- 

 hird of the Genus Amazilia. By D. G. Elliot, F.R.S.E. 

 &c. 



Amazilia lucida. 



Adult. Crown of head dark metallic grass-green ; upper 

 surface shining grass-green, lighter than the head. Upper 

 tail-coverts golden bronze. Throat, breast, abdomen, and 

 flanks metallic grass-green, a light mouse-coloured spot on 

 the lower part of the abdomen. Thighs white, feathers fluffy. 

 Under tail-coverts dark bronzy brown, edged with white. 

 Wings dark purple. Tail reddish bronze, darkest on the cen- 

 tral portion of the feathers along the shafts, with the tips of 

 the lateral rectrices bluish black, their edges reddish bronze. 

 This bluish-black colour almost resolves itself into a subter- 

 minal bar, and is especially conspicuous on the underside of 

 the tail. Bill apparently brownish red, perhaps flesh -colour 

 in life, with a dark tip. Total length 3^ inches, wing 2^, 

 tail 1^, culmen |. 



Hah. Stated to be Columbia. 



This seems to be a very distinct species, belonging to that 

 section of the Amazilice to which Cabanis gave the generic 

 term of Pyrrhophceyia^ and apparently comes nearest to the 

 species generally known as P. Devillei^ Bourc, but differs from 

 it, and, indeed, from every other member of the genus Ama- 

 zilia^ by the coloration of the tail and its coverts. The crown 

 resembles somewhat that of the bird called by Mr. Gould 

 Erythronota Felicice ; but there is no further resemblance 

 between them save that, as with several others of these clos^y 

 allied birds, the underparts are shining green. The genus 

 Fyrrhophcena (in which possibly some would place this new 



