AMAZILIA CUPREICAUDA, SaMn S( Godman. 



Copper-tailed Amazili. 



Jmazilia cupreicauda, Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1884, p. 452.— Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 435 



Mr. H. Whitely discovered the present species in British Guiana, having met with it on Roraima and on 

 the Merume Mountains. It is stated by Messrs. Salvin and Godman to be allied to A. mridwentris, but 

 to differ in its less forked tail, cinnamon vent, and in the coppery cinnamon, instead of violet, colour of the 

 tail ; they found these characters quite constant in a considerable series of skins sent by Mr. Whitelv. 



The following is a translation of the original description : — 



Top of the head and entire body below brilliant green, the back tinged with copper-colour; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail dark cinnamon, washed with copper-colour ; a patch on the flanks and the thighs snowy 

 white; vent pure cinnamon without spots; upper mandible dusky, the base of the mandible pale for two 

 thirds of its length. Total length 3-5 inches, wing 2*0, tail MS, bill from gape O'S. 



The figures in the Plate represent the adult male in three positions, and have been drawn from one of the 

 typical specimens lent to us by Messrs. Salvin and Godman. 



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AMAZILIA lODURA 



White-vented Amazili. 



Trochihis iodurus, Saucerotte, MSS. in Mus. Hein. 



Saucerottia iodura, Reichenb. Aufz. der Colibri, p. 8 (1853). — Eudes-Deslongchamps, Ann. 



Mus. d'Hist. Nat. de Caen, i. p. 418 (1880). 

 Chlorestes iodurus, Reichenb. Handb. Trochil. p. 4, Taf. 698. figs. 4560-61 (1855). 

 Hemithylaca iodura^ Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iii. p. 39 (1860). 

 PyrrJiopJmna iodiira, Gould, Intr. Trochil. p. 159 (1861). — Mulsant, Hist. Nat. Oiseaux- 



Mouches, i. p. 299 (1875). 

 Eratina ioditra^ Heine, Journ. fiir Orn. 1863, p. 190. 

 PoJytmiis iodurus^ Gray, Hand-list of Birds, p. 132 (1869). 

 Amazilia iodura, Elliot, Synopsis of the Humming- Birds, p. 223 (1878). 



We liave not seen an example of this Humming-bird, nor has Mr. Elliot, who refers it to the neighbourhood 



0^ A. maricB and A. cyanura^ but considers that the purplish-violet colour of the tail and the white under 



tail-coverts will serve to distinguish it. 



The habitat is stated to be Colombia, and the following is a translation of the original description : — 

 Head, neck, breast, uj)per back, and wing-coverts brilliant green, the throat a little mixed with white ; 



wings bluish green, very broadly edged with pale fulvous; tail bright purplish violet; abdomen fulvescent ; 



vent white. Total length 3 inches 3 lines, wing 2 inches, tail 1 inch 2 lines, culmen 9 lines, 



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