404 On an apparently new Species of Humming-hird. 



whitisli ; 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 ; antennas 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, j 2 inches 

 1 line, ? 2 inches 8 lines. 

 Yokohama (Jonas). 



[To be continued.] 



LII. — Description of an apparently new 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 |. 



H(d). 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 Pyrrhophcena^ 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 Felicia' ; but there is no further resemblance 

 between them save that, as with several others of these closely 

 allied birds, the underparts are shining green. The genus 

 Pyrrhopliuena (in which possibly some would place this new 



