44: Descriptions of New Species of Birds. 



broadly margined externally, etc., with purplish black." In 

 my species the central feathers are dark green, and all the 

 others white, margined with dull black. 



Two specimens examined differ only in one (apparently not 

 so mature), having the inner web of the feather on each side, 

 next the central ones, almost entirely black, clouded white in 

 the middle. 



6. Urosticie ruficrissa, nov. sp. 



Male. Entire upper plumage deep grass green ; wings brownish 

 purple ; tail-feathers dull bronzy green, the four central largely tipped 

 with pale creamy white, below the white these feathers are washed with 

 coppery bronze, the other tail feathers being also largely so towards 

 their ends ; throat of a deep luminous emerald green ; breast and abdo- 

 men grass green ; crissum of a rather light rufous ; bill black ; feet dark 

 brown. 



Length about 44^ inches ; wing 2 T 5 g- ; tail 1|| ; bill %. 



Habitat. — Ecuador. 



Remarks. — In a collection from Ecuador, I was much gra- 

 tified by finding a second species of this remarkable form, the 

 only representative of the genus heretofore being U. Be?ijamini, 

 Bourc. It differs from that species in being larger in all its 

 proportions, in not having a violet mark beneath the luminous 

 throat (which is of a much deeper green), nor the white spot 

 behind the eye ; the crissum is rufous which in the other is 

 green ; the form of the tail and the white markings on the central 

 feathers are precisely as in U. JBenjamini, but it is more deeply 

 forked, the outer feathers extending half an inch beyond the 

 middle ones, or twice as much as those of that species. 



7. Rainphomicroii oliraceiis, nov. sp. 



Male. Entire upper plumage, including the tail, dull bronzy olive 

 green ; wings light bronzy purplish brown ; the gorget, of brilliant scale- 

 like feathers, is emerald green on the chin, ending in more elongated 



