The Humming- Bird. 



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green. Middle of the abdomen vent, undertail-coverts and 

 tuft on each side of vent pure white. Median rectrices 

 bronze, lateral bluish-black with slight gray tips. Maxilla 

 black. Mandible flesh colour with black tip. Wings 

 purplish-brown. 



Total length, 3.Un. Wing, 2\ Tail, i|-. Culmen, \]r. 



Female? — Same colourins: as the male, with throat and 

 breast shining pale blue. Lateral rectrices tipped white. 



My specimens of this new species were collected in Brazil 

 by Mr. Gounelle. It is allied to A. bartletti and lactea, but 

 easily distinguished from both, being of the same size as 

 A. lactea, with the colouring of throat and breast of A. 

 bartletti, and undertail-coverts pure white. 



With A. lactea it belongs to the genus Agyrtria, and not 

 to that of Hylocharis, this last genus being easily distin- 

 guished from Agyrtria by the flesh colour of its bill and the 

 rectrices of tail, which are wide and nearly equal in size. In 

 the orenus Ag^vrtria the central rectrices are shorter, the others 

 are narrower, and the white band in the middle of the 

 abdomen is a special characteristic of that genus, with all 

 the brightly coloured species. 



Chrvsuroxia bl'Ckleyi, N.Sp. 



Male. — Head dark shining blue. Upperside golden-green. 

 Tail and upper-tail coverts shining golden-bronze. Under- 

 side metallic emerald-green, passing to golden on abdomen 

 and flanks. Undertail coverts, golden, fringed with gray. 

 Wings purplish-brown. Maxilla black, mandible ilesh colour, 

 with black tip. 



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



Female. — Unknown. 



This species is closely allied to C. josephinœ, from which 

 it is easily distinguished by not having any blue on the chin, 

 its smaller size, and the bill much shorter. 



It was discovered in Bolivia, 1876, by the late Buckley, and 

 I dedicate it to his memory. 



Ph^thorxis garleppi, N.Sp. 



Male. — Upperside pale greenish-bronze, slightly darker on 

 crown, rump of the same colour, margined with rusty red. 

 Medium rectrices, bronze-green for three-fourths of their 

 length, the next one, bronze-green for half its length, with a 

 broad, black band, and the remainder white, the other rectrices 



