Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 



shining grass-green ; throat, sides of the neck and chest, rich violet- 

 blue ; wings purple-brown ; tail rather forked ; central feathers 

 bronzj green ; lateral feathers purplish black ; upper mandible and 

 tip of the lower black ; basal portion of the latter fleshy white. 



Female : upper surface shining grass-green, but of a paler hue 

 than in the male ; tail as in the opposite sex, except that the lateral 

 feathers are tipped with white ; centre of the throat, abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts white. 



Total length, 3| inches ; bill, f ; wing, 2 ; taU, 1^. 



Hab. Near David, on the north side of the Cordillera, Veragua. 



I am also indebted to Dr. T. B. Wilson of Philadelphia for the 

 loan of a specimen from Panama. This species is precisely of the 

 same elegant form as the T. Goudotii, but is of a larger size, and is 

 at once distinguished from that bird by its blue breast. 



5. TROCHILrS ( ?) CASTANEOVEXTRIS. 



Crown of the head metalUc green ; upper surface green ; wings 

 purplish brown ; tail dark bronzy green, crossed near the tip by a 

 broad band of black ; the latei'al feathers tipped with buff, which de- 

 creases in extent as the feathers approach the central ones ; all the 

 under surface reddish chestnut ; bill black. 



Total length, 4 inches ; bill, |- ; Aving, 2^ ; taU, If. 



Hab. Cordillera of Chiriqui, at an altitude of 6000 feet. 



Remark. — This is a moderately sized species, and is not alhed to 

 any other member of the family \\ith which I am acquainted ; I am 

 therefore vmable to assign it a place in any of the sections hitherto 

 proposed ; the specimens I possess appear to be itomature, and are 

 unfortunately in bad condition. 



6. TROCHILrS ( ?) XIVEOVENTER. 



Crown of the head and back of the neck bronzy green ; back rich 

 coppery bronze ; wings purple-brown ; upper tail-coverts reddish 

 purple ; tail purple-black ; throat resplendent green ; abdomen snow- 

 white ; flanks green ; under tail-coverts greenish brown, margined 

 with white ; bill black, except the basal three-fourths of the lower 

 mandible, which are flesh colour. 



Total length, 3f inches ; bill, | ; wing, 2\ ; tail, 1^. 



Hab. Near Da^-id ; warm countries of Veragua. 



Reviark. — Nearly alUed to T. Edwardi and T. erythronotus ; from 

 the former, however, it differs m the colour of the tail, and from the 

 latter in the white colouring of the breast. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



Thursday, 19th June. — Professor Balfour, President, in the Chair. 



A copy of the new edition of the Society's Catalogue of British 

 Plants was laid on the table. 



Mr. Henry Paid presented a specimen of Codium Bursa, collected 

 in tlie neighbourhood of Brighton. 



Dr. Balfour exhibited specimens of Bryitm Wa/ilenberyii from 

 Arniston, near Edinburgh, where they were collected by Mr. \>itch. 



