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considerably more developed. The colour of the legs is also very 

 different, being in lugubris pale greenish-dusky, while in affinis there is 

 a strong tinge of brown. I have obtained numerous specimens of this 

 bird, all of which were of the same dusky-green colour above, with dull 

 yellow supercilium and lower-parts, brightening on the middle of the 

 belly ; and I have reason to believe that this colouring is permanent — 

 unlike the yellow dress of the British Ph. trochilus and Ph. rufus, 

 which is not their nestling garb, but is put forth very soon after leaving 

 the nest. Ph. affinis measures four inches and three-eighths to four 

 and three-quarters long, by six and a half to seven inches in expanse ; 

 wing two inches and one-eighth, to two and three-eighths ; and tail an 

 inch and three-quarters to one and seven-eighths : bill to gape half an 

 inch, or a trifle more ; tarse three-quarters of an inch, or nearly so. 

 Irides dark. Bill dusky above, amber-coloured below ; interior of the 

 mouth bright yellow ; and legs pale brownish-dusky, tinged with yel- 

 low ; the soles more or less yellowish. 



Another and larger species was obtained on the same occasion, with 

 very similar colouring. 



Ph. griseolus, nobis, n. s. Length five inches and a quarter, by seven 

 and a quarter ; wing two and five-eighths ; tail two and a quarter ; bill to 

 gape nine-sixteenths ; tarse three quarters of an inch. Irides very dark 

 brown ; bill dusky above, below pale amber ; interior of the mouth 

 whitish, with scarcely a tinge of yellow ; tarse externally, and the toes 

 above, light brown, internally and beneath yellow. This bird is dis- 

 tinguished from Ph. affinis by its much larger size, and by the decided 

 ashy tinge of its upper-parts ; also by the colour of the legs in the 

 recent specimen, and whitish interior of the mouth. The yellow of the 

 under-parts is more confined to the central region, and a somewhat 

 ruddy whitish prevails, instead of yellow, on the ear-coverts. Some 

 specimens of Ph. fuscatus are so similar, except in wanting the yellow, 

 that I should have been tempted to regard them as different phases of 

 plumage of the same species, analogous to those exhibited by Ph. tro- 

 chilus and Ph. rufus, were it not for the different proportions of the 

 first primaries, besides that the wing is longer in Ph. griseolus than in 

 any specimen of fuscatus yet examined. In the latter, the first pri. 

 mary is fully half the length of the second ; while in the former it does 

 not exceed one-third of the length of the second : measuring from the 



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