8 The Humming Bird. 



rufous. Undertail-coverts pale chestnut margined with white. 

 Wings brown passing to purple on shoulders. Maxilla black. 

 Mandible flesh colour with black tip. 



Total length, 4in. Wing, 2^. Tail, i\. Culmen, |-. 



I have only one specimen of this new species, which I 

 bought in San Francisco (California). It was sold to me 

 with many other birds as having been collected in Mazathan 

 by Mr. Forrer, to whom I am happy to dedicate it. 



Saucerottia wells I, N.Sp. 



Male. — Forehead metallic grass-green. Upperside dark shin- 

 ing green passing to bronze on lower part of back, rump, and 

 uppertail-coverts. Tail shining dark purplish-blue. Upper- 

 side metallic grass-green. A tuft on flanks, anal region and 

 thighs, white. Undertail-coverts, bronze margined with gray. 

 Wings purple-brown. Maxilla black. Mandible flesh colour 

 with black tips. 



Total length, 3fin. Wing, 2\. Tail, i^. Culmen, |-. 



Feinale. — Exactly like the male, but slightly less brilliant. 

 Centre of anal region grayish. 



This species is closely allied to S. erythronota ; but can be 

 easily distinguished from it by the colour of the upperside 

 and tail. It was sent to me by Mr. W'ells, from Grenada 

 (West Indies), and I have the pleasure to dedicate it to him. 



Uranomitra whitelyi, N.Sp. 



Male. — Head and sides of neck metallic green. Upperside 

 bronze-green. Median rectrices bronze, lateral bronze with a 

 sub-terminal blackish bar. Throat, breast and abdomen pure 

 white. Flanks golden-green. Undertail-coverts white with 

 the centre pale gray. Wings purplish-brown. Bill black. 



Total length, 3|in. Wing, 2. Tail, i|-. Culmen, |. 



Female. — Head and sides of neck shining green ; but not 

 so brilliant as in male. Upperside bronze-green. Underside 

 white. Flanks white, washed with green. Tail bronze, lateral 

 with a brown sub-terminal bar, and tips margined with gray. 



This new species is closely allied to U. milleri ; but 

 easily distinguished from that species by the colour of its bill. 



It was discovered in British Guiana, by the late Mr. Henr}^ 

 Whitely, to whose memory I dedicate it. 



Agyrtria speciosa, N.Sp. 



Male. — Upperside dark bluish bronzy-green. Throat and 

 breast dark glittering-blue. Flanks gray washed with bluish- 



