EUTOXERES CONDAMINI. 



Condamine's Sickle-Bill. 



Trochilus Condamini, Bourc. Compt. Rend, de TAcad. des Sci. de Paris, torn, xxxii. p. 186 

 lb. Rev. Zool. 1851,p. 96. 



For the discovery of a second species of Sickle-Bill, the merit is due to M. Bourcier, who procured a single 

 specimen during his late journey in the Republic of Ecuador ; and who has, in the kindest manner, sent 

 this unique specimen from Paris to London, to enable me to give a figure of it in the present work : the 

 notes accompanying it inform me that it inhabits the woods in the environs of Archidona ; that its flight is 

 not very rapid; that it obtains its food from the flowers of the OrchidaeecB^ that, according to the Indians, 

 it is a very rare bird; and that the altitude of its habitat is about 10,000 feet. M, Bourcier has named it 

 after M. de la Condamine, one of the three Academicians sent on a scientific expedition to Ecuador by 

 the French Government in 1742. 



Crown of the head dark brown ; wing-coverts and back deep bronze ; above and below the eye a streak 

 of buff'; at the back of the neck, a crescent of dark glossy green ; wings purplish brown ; upper tail-coverts 

 bronzy green edged with deep buff*; two centre tail-feathers dark bronzy green, slightly tipped with white; 

 the next tail-feather on each side brownish black, tipped with white ; the three outer feathers on each side 

 deep buff, shading into white at the tip ; cheeks and under surface striated with buff* and brownish black, 

 the buflf predominating on the centre of the abdomen ; upper mandible blackish brown ; basal half of the 

 under mandible yellow, apical half blackish brown ; feet yellow, with dark brown scutellae. 



The fiefures are of the size of life. 



