258 Mr. P. H. Gosse on two new Birds from Jamaica. 
winter visitant in Jamaica. Its manners, as far as I have noticed 
them, resemble those of the other Tyrants; pursuing insects in 
the air, and retiring to a prominent twig to eat them. I have 
observed one attack with much clamour a John-to-whit (Vzreo- 
sylva olivacea), on the wing. 
A figure of this species will be found in my ‘ Illustrations of 
the Birds of Jamaica,’ Part xi. plate 45. 
Trochilus Maria. Length 4,4, inches; wing from flexure 2+4; 
rictus rather more than 77; tarsus ;%,; middle toe 5. Beak 
(in a dried state) blackish brown above, buff below, with the tip 
black : irides ?; feet black. Crown dull black, each feather 
tipped with a spangle of green and bronze, the spangles having 
a tendency to form longitudinal rows : nape and sides of the neck 
blackish, beset with spangles less numerous, but larger and more 
golden than on the crown: back and shoulders of wings richly 
bronzed with a ruddy golden hue, slightly tending to green im 
some lights ; rump and upper tail-coverts more decidedly golden 
green ; tail black, glossed with golden green, principally towards 
the tips of the feathers, the uropygials having more of the me- 
tallic lustre than the rest; wing quills and greater coverts pur- 
plish black, the innermost coverts and the winglet tipped with 
golden : throat, breast and belly emerald green, not scaly, the 
tips of the feathers only being metallic and showing the brownish 
black bases between them: vent and under tail-coverts black. 
The specimen appears to be an immature male. 
This specimen of a species previously unknown to me was 
obligingly forwarded to me by my esteemed scientific friend, 
Richard Hill, Esq. of Spanish-Town, to whom it was sent from 
the mountains of Manchester. It is near to Polytmus, but dif- 
fers from it in the inferior length of its beak, and im the colours 
of the plumage; but being apparently young, it is impossible to 
say what its adult condition may prove. I am happy however 
to fortify my own judgment by that of Mr. Gould, who on my 
showing it to him decidedly pronounced it new. 3 
Mr. Hill writes me concerning the specimen : “ It was startled 
from a nest in which were two young ones, and was obtained 
by charging some of the blossoms of the mountain-pride (Spa- 
thelia simplex) on which it was feeding, with minute doses of 
strychnine. As soon as it sucked from one of the poisoned cha- 
lices, it fluttered, and fell dead.” The nest does not differ in 
structure from those made of the drab-coloured down of the 
Eriodendron, or of the Ochroma lagopus, with a stucco of lichens.” 
Mr. Hill had at first proposed to name this species “ brae- 
teatus,’ but afterwards substituted the feminine appellative, 
which I have pleasure in placing at the head of this article. 
“ Doubting,” he observes, “whether bracteatus was sufficiently 
