EUCEPHALA CYANOGENYS. 



Blue-faced Sapphire. 



Ornismya wiedi, Less. Suppl. Oiseaux-Mouches, p. 150, pi. 26 (1829). 



Trochilus cyanogenys, Wied, Beitr, Naturg. Brasil. iv. p. 70 (1832). — Jard. Humming- 

 Birds, ii. p. 89.— Burm. Thiere Bras. ii. p. 350 (1854). 



Hylocharis cyanogenys, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 115 (1848) ; id. Hand-1. of Birds, i. p. 148, 

 no. 1911 (1869). 



Saucerottia cyanogenys, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. n (1850). 



Chlorestes cyanogenys, Reiclienb. Aufz. der Colibr. p. 7 (1853) ; id. Handb. Trochil. p. 4^ 

 pi. dcxcii. figs. 4536-37 (1855); Cab. & Hein. Mus. Hein. Th. iii. p. 46 

 (I860). 



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



Eucephala cyanogenys, Gould, Intr. Monogr, Trochil. p. 167 (1861). — Elliot, Ibis, 1874, 

 p. 89 ; id. Syn. Humming-Birds, p. 231 (1878). — Eudes-Deslongchamps, 

 Annuaire Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Caen, i. p. 455 (1881), 



This species, which was descrlhed by the Prince of Wied as long ago as 1832, still reniains to be re- 

 discovered ; for 1 have never seen a specimen, nor does Mr. Elliot appear to have been more fortunate, as 

 he says the type specimen, which ought to have been in the collection of the American Museum of Natural 

 History in New York, appears to have been lost. 



It is the more curious that specimens do not turn up, because Prince Wied speaks of it as by no means 

 rare in all the parts of Brazil he visited ; but Natterer does not record it, and it is just possible that it may 

 have been extinguished as a species since Wied's time by the insensate mania for adorning ladies' hats 

 and bonnets with the skins of Humming-Birds, which during the last twenty years has wrought indescribable 

 havoc amongst the connnoner species. 



