%\t Humming §irîr. 



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Description of a supposed new Species of 

 Humming Bird in Boucard's Museum. 



Phaetornis Rupurumii, N.sp. 



■Male. — Upperside pale golden-çreen, brownish on head ; 

 upper tail-coverts, golden green with rufous edges. Throat 

 black. Lines under and above the eyes, pale rufous, with lores 

 and ear coverts black, forming a central black bar between. 

 Breast, abdomen and flanks, pale greyish, tinged with pale rufous. 

 Undertail coverts white. Median rectrices bronze-green, paler 

 near the end, white tips ; the next one of same colour but slightly 

 darker, with white tips. The two next purple-black tipped 

 white, the last of same colour, with edges near the point, and 

 tips rufous. Wings purple-brown. Bill black. Lower mandible, 

 flesh colour to a little more than half its length, rest black. 



Total length, 4§ in.; Wing, if; Tail, 2 ; Culmen, 1. 



Habitat, River Rupurumi, Brit. Guiana. 



Type, in Boucard's Museum. 



This pretty species of Phaethornis was discovered by Mr. 

 Whitely during his last voyage, in the interior of British Guiana. 

 It was killed the 31st of March, 1890, on the river Rupurumi. 

 Its place is between P. squalidus, and P. longuemarei, but it is 

 quite distinct of both species. 



