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Male. — Upper side pale bronzy-green. Eump rufous. Throat 

 metallic amethystine red with purple-bluish reflections on the 

 sides. Breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white. Flanks 

 grey washed with green. Median rectrices olive-green, lateral 

 bluish-black. Wings purplish-brown. Bill black. 



Total length, 5± in. Wing, 2| . Tail, 2|. Culmen, If. 



Female. — Upperside like the male. Throat white, speckled 

 with brown spots. Kest of underside like the male. 



My specimens were collected by Mr. Whitely in Peru. 



*34. Khodopis atacamensis, Leyb, Ann. Univ. Santiago, Chili, 



1869. 



Atacaman's Evening Humming Bird. 



L'Oiseau mouche d'Atacaman. 



Habitat. — Chili. 



The only two specimens, male and female, which I have seen 

 in the British Museum are exactly like the preceding species, 

 but much smaller and slightly more rufous on the upperside. 

 They were collected by Markham in 1880, at Payta, Peru. 

 (They are rather poor skins. 



Genus XIX. Thaumastura, Bon, Consp. G-en. Av. 1850. 



Vol. L, p. 85. 



Phaetornis, Tschudi, Consp., 1844, p. 37. 

 Cora, Keich, Bon. Ann. Sc. Nat. 1834, p. 138. 

 Type : 0. cora, Lesson. 



Bill short, straight, wide at base. Wings long. Tarsi partially 

 clothed. Middle pair of rectrices almost hidden in coverts, 

 next on either side greatly elongated and longest, remainder 

 much shorter and decreasing in length to the outermost one. 

 All of them very narrow but of uniform width to their entire 

 length. 



Habitat. — Peru. 



35. Thaumastura cora, Less and Gam, Voy. de la Coq. p. 13. 



Trochilus (Phaetornis) cora, Tschud, Consp. p. 37. 

 Calothorax cora, Gray, Gen. of Birds, vol i., p. 110. 

 Lucifer corae, Keich, Troch. Enum. 1855, p. 10. 

 Cora's Shear-tail, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iii., p. 153. 

 Le Thaumasture de Cora, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois. m. t. iv.,p. 9. 

 Habitat. — Peru. 



