Genera of Humming Birds. 139 



Male. — Top of head and throat dark purple-blue. Upper 

 surface golden-green, bronzy on the rump. Wings purplish- 

 brown. Undersurface shining light bronzy-green with a 

 white streak in the centre of the abdomen. Tail dark bronzy- 

 green with a bluish shade on the central feathers. Under- 

 tail-coverts white. Bill flesh colour or red, (?) tip black. 

 Feet brown. 



Total length, 4m. Wing, 2§. Tail, 1^-. Culmen, -J. 



Female. — Upperparts coppery-bronze. Undersurface dull 

 "white spangled with green. Central tail feathers dark green, 

 lateral ones bronzy-green, graduating into dark brown, and 

 tipped with white. 



Total length, 4m. Wing, 2f. Tail, \\. Culmen, J. (Elliot 

 loc. cit.) 



Typical specimens in Elliot and British Museum Collections. 



194. CHRYSURONIA NEERA, Less and Del., Rev. Zool., 1839, 



p. 18. 



Ornismya josephinae, Bourc. and Muls., Rev. Zool., 1848, 



P I 2 - 



Trochilus josephinae, Gray, Gen. Birds, Suppl., vol. iii., 30a. 



Chrysurisca josephinae, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein, i860, 

 t. iii., p. 10. 



Avyrtria caeruleiceps, Gould, P.Z.S., i860, p 307. 



Josephine* s Humming Bird, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. v., 

 p. 326. 



La Chrysuronie de Josephine, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1875, t. ii., p. 11. 



Habitat. — Upper Amazons, Ecuador and Peru. 



Male. — Crown of the head and chin deep shining blue. 

 Upperside shining green. Tail and uppertail-coverts golden- 

 bronze. Underside metallic grass-green. Undertail-coverts 

 golden-bronze fringed with gray. Wings purplish-brown. 

 Maxilla black. Mandible flesh colour, tip black. 



Total length, 4m. Wing, 2 J. Tail, \\. Culmen, J. 



Female. — Upperside bronzy-green. Underside whitewashed 

 with green on sides of neck, breast and flanks. Rest of 

 plumage like the male, but not so brilliant. 



In my opinion the type of Agyrtria caeruleiceps, Gould, 

 which I have examined, is only C. neera, male junior. 



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