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INTRODUCTION. 



freshly moulted adult males have their four central tail-feathers tipped with bronzy green ; but this colour appears 

 to fade upon exposure to light, leaving the tail nearly black. I beheve this bird is also found at Panama. 



Genus Chlorostilbon, Gould. 



(XXcopo^, viridis, et ariK^co, corusco.) 



Under this generic appellation, for a form of which I always intended the C prasinus to be the type, I have 

 figured the whole of the little green Humming-Birds ; but I now see the necessity of subdividing them ; I shall 

 therefore restrict the term to the following species — angustipenms^ Haeberlinij Phdethon, aureiventris, prasinus, Atala, 

 hrevicaiidatus, Napensis, Penianus^ Daphne, and chrysog aster, and adopt Dr. Cabanis's genus Panychlora for AUcice, 

 euchloris, Poortmanni, and stenura. 



397. Chlorostilbon angustipennis 

 Habitat. Panama and New Granada. 



Vol. V. PL 353. 



398. Chlorostilbon Haeberlini. 



CUorolampis chrysogaster, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 47. 



Trochilus Haelerlinii, Licht. in Mus. of Berlin. 



CUorestes Haeherlinii, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p. 7 ; Id. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pi. 703. figs. 4578-80. 



CUorolampis Haeberlini, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 48, note. 



Habitat, Carthagena. 



I have had the original of C. Haeberlifii sent to me from Berlin, and I find it to be a very elegantly formed 

 bird, nearly allied to, but quite distinct from, C angustipennis. It difi^ers in having the glittering green of the under 

 surface washed with blue, a shorter wing, and a still more deeply forked tail, the feathers of which are steely-green, 

 and not so dark as in that species. It is said to be from Carthagena. 



399. Chlorostilbon Phaethon Vol. V. PL 354. 



Habitat, Bolivia, Southern Brazil, and La Plata. 



Since writing my account of this species, in which I expressed my belief that the Ornismyia aureiventris of 

 D'Orbigny and Lafresnaye was identical with it, I have carefully re-examined my specimens from the above-named 

 countries, together with an example collected by Mr. Bridges, and I am now inclined to believe the O. aureiventris 

 to be distinct ; but as it merely difi^ers in being of smaller size in all its admeasurements, it will not be necessary 

 for me to figure it. 



400. Chlorostilbon aureiventris. 

 Ornismyia aureiventris, D'Orb. et Lafresn. 



Hylocharis aureiventris, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 255. 

 Habitat. Bolivia and Peru. 



401. Chlorostilbon prasinus Vol. V. PI. 355. 



Trochilus Pucherani, Bourc. et Muls. Rev. Zool. 1848, torn. ii. p. 271. 



Hylocharis pucherani, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool 1854, p. 255. 



CUorestes Pucherani, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p. 7 ; Id. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pi. 755. fig. 4736. 



Trochilus nitidissimus, Licht. in Mus. of Berlin. 



Hylocharis prasina, Burm. Th. Bras. torn. ii. p. 350. 



CUorestes nitidissimus, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p. 7 ; Id. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pi. 693. figs. 4538-39. 



Trochilus lamprus, "Nat." in Mus. of Munich. 



Chlorostilbon nitidissimus, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 47. 



Ornismya Galathea, Bourc. et Muls. in Mus. of Paris. 



Trochilus viridissimus, Linn, in Mus, of Berlin (youn^:). 



In my account of this species I stated that, owing to its being impossible to determine to what bird Lesson 

 had given the name oi prasinus, I should apply it to the one generally known by that term among collectors— the 

 bird so common in the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, Minas Geraes, &c. From Dr. Cabanis we learn that it 

 has been named Trochilus nitidissimus by Lichtenstein in the Museum of Berlin, and 'Trochilus lamprus, Natt. in the 

 Museum of Munich ; but had either of these names been published to the world before Dr. Cabanis included it in 

 his ' Museum Heineanum ' under the name of Chlorostilbon nitidissimus 1 If not, and prasinus be rejected, that term 

 must certainly give place to M. Bourcier's previously published one of Pucherani, which I find, from the type 



