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the eye is a crescent-shaped spot of light and vivid beryl green ; 

 the tail is edged with blue green. 



i:il8. Aglaia cceruleocephala. 



Head and chin entirely caerulean blue : neck^ back, 

 breast, and body velvet-black, varied with dark blue on 

 the flanks : rump, upper tail and wing covers, change- 

 able golden yellow. 



Inhabits Peru. Mr. W. Hooker's Collection. 



Size and general structure of the next. Lores velvet-black : 

 head beryl blue, richly glossed with violet on the front and 

 chin : the lower half of the neck, both above and below, as well 

 as the interscapulars, the back, and all the under plumage, are 

 deep velvet-black, except the sides of the body, where the fea- 

 thers are tipt with bright purple blue ; but those on the under 

 tail covers are edged with blue green, as are also the quill and 

 tail feathers : under wing covers velvet-black : the wing covers 

 are particularly brilliant. 



219- Aglaia Peruviana. 



Above, green, unspotted : rump, and plumage beneath, 

 light caerulean blue : front, crown, and sides of the 

 head rufous red. 



Inhabits Peru. jNIr. W. Hooker's Collection. 



Size and general structure of the last ; but differs in having 

 the whole of the under plumage light blue ; in the shoulder 

 covers being green, instead of golden yellow ; and in the rump 

 being caerulean blue : the rufous on the head in both species is 

 terminated on the nape by a yellow margin. In young birds 

 the upper part of the head is green ; the blue of the body gra- 

 dually assumes a greenish tinge towards the vent. 



220. Aglaia chrysoptera. 



Green, unspotted : middle of the breast and body sky- 

 blue : shoulder covers golden yellow : front, crown, and 

 sides of the head rufous red. 



Inhabits Demerara. Tanagra gyrola, Auct. PI. Enl. 

 133. f. 2. 



Total length A\ inches ; bill front ^^ ; wings 2^^ ; tail, beyond, f ; 

 base 2 ; tarsus f^. As two species appear to have been con- 

 founded under the specific name of gyrola, I have retained that 

 name to the one figured in Zool. 111. ii. pi. 28., which has no 



