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€]iloro§tilboii niteiis. 



Front and crown golden yellowish green, very brilliant; back and wing 

 coverts shining bronzed green, lower part of back and upper tail coverts 

 shining grass green ; under plumage brilliant green, of a bluish shade on 

 the throat, and golden on the abdomen ; tail steel blue and forked ; 

 ■wings brownish purple ; tarsi clothed with blackish feathers ; vent and 

 pleural spot white ; under tail coverts bright grass green ; upper man- 

 dible black, the under yellow for two thirds its length, with the end 

 black ; feet black. 



Length 3 in.; wing l^ ; tail 1}; bill y%. 



Habitat. — Venezuela. 



Allied to G. chrysogaster, but is smaller, and has a brilliant 

 crown, -which is not the case with chrysogaster, neither does 

 the blue color of the throat exist in that species. 



For the donation of this specimen I am indebted to Mr. Wil- 

 liam Galbraith, of this citj, who first called mj attention to it 

 as being different from any of the small green Humming birds 

 he had been in the habit of mounting, especially those from 

 Bogota. I would here record my thanks to him, not only for 

 the gift of this species, but for many disinterested favors of a 

 similar kind, and for the liberal manner in which he has fre- 

 quently brought to my notice specimens of birds he had not 

 before met witli. 



IToTE. — In the preceding paper the genus of the species 

 Nos. 77, 78, and 79, should be Pipra^ and not, as printed in 

 error, Chiroxiphia. 



