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Genus CHLOROPHANES Reiclienb. 



Chlornplianes Reichenbach, Handb. d. sp. Orn. p. 233, 1S53. Type 

 C. sj)iza (Linn.), 



Fig. 188. — Chloroplianes S])iza. 



In this genus the bill is proportionately long and inclining to 

 curve, its width at the base is about equal to half the length ot" 

 the exposed cubnen, and the height at the nostrils about one-third. 

 The wing is rounded, the second, third, and fourth primaries 

 longest and equal, the first intermediate in length between the 

 fourth and fifth. The tail is square at the tip and about five- 

 sevenths the length of the wing. The tarsus exceeds the length of 

 the ex}iosed culmen by about one-sixth. Coloration : male and 

 female different. 



654. CMoroplianes spiza. 

 Green Honey-Creeper. 



CcrtJtia spiza Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 188, 1758 (Surinam). 



Dacnis spiza Cab. in Schomb. lieis. Guian. iii. p. 675, 1818. 



(Jhlorophunes spiza Salvin, Ibis, 1885, ]i. 200 (fvoraiuia, Merume Mts., 

 Lartica Grove); Sclatcr, Cat. L. lii-it. INlus. xi. p. 2!), 188(3 (Jiartica 

 Grove, Koraima) ; Brabourne & Cliubb, ii. S. Amer. i. p. 8'J7, 

 no. 4085, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour both above and below glossy blue 

 with green reflections in certain lights ; crown of head, nape, and 

 entire sides of face velvety black ; outer aspect of wings darker 

 than the back ; inner webs of fiight-quills and tail-feathers black ; 

 under wing-coverts also black ; under surface of fligbt-(|uills and 

 lower aspect of tail dull black. 



Total length 135 mm., exposed culmen 15, wing 72, tail 41), 

 tarsus 18. 



The male described was collected on the Ituribisi Iviver in 

 October I'JOti. 



