METALLURA CHLOROPOGON. 



White-vented Copper-tail. 



Urolampra chloropogon, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. fii. p. 68 (1860). 

 Troc/iilus cJiloropogon, Gray, Hand-list of Birds, i. p. 142, no. 1839 (1869). 

 Metalhira cJtloropogon, Elliot, Synopsis of the Humming-Birds, p. 164 (1878). 



This species was described by Cabanis and Heine from two specimens in the Heine collection, but without 

 any indication of exact locality. These two specimens still remain the only ones known, so far as we are 

 aware, and Mr. Elliot has also not seen the species. The latter gentleman places it in the vicinity of 

 M. opaca and M.jelskii, from which it differs apparently in its tail being " luminous purple," and by its white 

 crissum. 



The following is a translation of the original description : — • 



Adult male. Purplish dusky with a certain amount of greenish lustre, the crown, shoulders, and rump 

 more brilliant green, but especially a gular spot, which is of a most beautiful green ; wing purplish dusky; 

 the tail very broad and glossed with more beautiful purple; vent white; the under tail-coverts shining 

 green with a yellowish margin. 



Adult female {or young male). Underneath brownish ochre; the throat and sides of the body spotted 

 with small dusky and greenish markings; the tail-feathers brilliant purjde, the three outer ones paler 

 purplish at the tip. Total length 3 inches 6 lines, wing 2 inches, tail 1 inch 6 lines, culmen 5 lines. 



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METALLURA EUPOGON. 



Red-throated Copper-tail. 



Urolampra eupogon^ Cab. Journ. fiir Orn. 1874, p. 97- 



Metallura hedvig^e, Tacz. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, pp. 139, 544, pi. xxi. fig. 2. — Mulsant, 



Hist. Nat. Oiseaux-Mouches, iii. p. 107 (1877). 

 Metallura eiipogon, Elliot, Synopsis of the Humming-Birds, p. 164 (1878). — Tacz. Orn. du 



P^rou, i. p. 352 (1883). 



This species of Copper-tail was discovered by Mr. Jelski, at Maraynioc, in Peru. It is a very distinct 

 sj)ecies, having the centre of the throat metallic red instead of bluish or metallic green. Nothing has been 

 recorded of its habits, and the female is at present unknown. 



The following descri])tion is translated from Dr. Taczanowski's work on the Birds of Peru : — 

 Adult male. Head above bronzy green, slightly scaly in appearance, with a somewhat more dusky disk; 

 upper surface of body with the upper tail-coverts bronzy green ; under surface of body uniform with the upper 

 surface; an oblong patch on the throat, scaly in appearance and of a brilliant fiery reddish copper-colour; 

 feathers of the centre of the breast dusky grey at the base, the abdominal plumes marked with a pale band 

 before the bronzy tip; vent white; under tail-coverts bronzy, broadly margined with rufous ; tail slightly 

 truncated, the tail-feathers bronzy, with a brilliant blue lustre, the lower surface coppery bronze. 



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