120 Genera of Humming Birds. 



This species was dedicated by Mess. Bourcier and Mulsant 

 to Doctor Pucheran. 



It is abundant in Brazil. 



T65. Chlorostilbon wiedi, N. Sp. 



Wied's Emerald. 



r Emerande de Wied. 



Habitat. — Brazil. 



Male. — Crown metallic-gold. Upperside golden-green. 

 Throat metallic emerald-green. Breast, abdomen, flanks, and 

 undertail-coverts metallic golden-green. Wings purplish- 

 brown. Tail steel-blue. Maxilla, half of it, flesh colour, rest 

 black. Mandible flesh colour with black tip. 



Total length, 3fin. Wing, i{. Tail, if. Culmen, T 7 -g. 



Female. — Exactly like the preceding species. 



I have several specimens of this new species, collected in 

 Brazil, by Delattre, with the name of Wiedi on the label, 

 so I thought very appropriate to keep it, in memory of Prince 

 Maximilian de Wied. 



*i66. Chlorostilbon egregius, Heine, Journ. fur Ornith, 



1863, p. 198. 



Hylocharis bicolor ) Burm., S.Ueb., ii, p. 348. 

 Hylocharis flavifrons, Pelz., Orn. Bras. p. 33. 

 Trochilus audeberti, Var, Wied, Beitr. Nat. Gesch. Bras, 

 t. iv., p. 69. 



Taquara 's Emerald. 



E Emeraude de Taquara. 



Habitat. — Taquara, Brazil. 



Intermedius quasi statura rostrique longitudine ac vigore 

 inter C. phaethontem, et C. pucherani ; hoc vero omnino 

 similior splendore smaragdineo-virente potius quam flavido- 

 aurescente, gutture splendidissime secundum quandam solis 

 lucem in colorem sapphirino-smaragdineum nonnihil vergente. 



Long tot, 3 " 7 "\ al, 1 » 9^ "\ caud, 1 " 3 "'. Culm., 8 "". 



Type in Berlin Museum. 



