TOPAZA. 



417 



Topaza pella. 

 Fig. 86. — To show the form of the tail. 



283. Topaza pella. 

 Crimson Topaz. 



Trochilus pella Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 10th ed. p. 119, 1758 (Guiana) ; Cab. 



in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 707, 1818 ; Brown, Canoe and Camp 



Life, p. 47, 1870 ( Cartoon ie River). 

 Topaza pella Salvin, Ibis, 1S85, p. 432 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa, 



Merume Mts., Atapurau River j ; W. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1887, p. 317 



(Maccasseema, Pouieroon River) ; Salvin, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. 



p. 332, 1892 (Demerard) ; Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, 



pp. 307, 325, 1910 (Aremu); Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. 



J). 125, no. 1208, 1912. 



" Kurabimiti " or "King lluniniing-ljirJ " {Quelch). 

 Adult male. Crown of head, side-s of faco, and a band acrcss 

 the Torc-iU'ck deo[) velvol y-blacU ; Iiiiid-iicck, iniiiil If, forc-iuH-lv, 



2 !•; 



