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margin of tip white, underneath bluish-black with grayish 

 tip. Throat and breast luminous green, lighter than in the 

 male. Flanks and abdomen bronzy-green. Centre of breast 

 abdomen, and vent white. Undertail-coverts greenish- 

 brown edged white. Maxilla brownish-black. Mandible 

 flesh colour with black tip. 



Total length, 3^in. Wing, 2J. Tail, if. Culmen, f . 



I think the discoverer of this species is Mr. Hauxwell, as 

 my specimens, of both sexes, of this species, were collected 

 by him at Pebas in 1866, and it is very probable that the 

 tvpical specimen of Gould came also from him. 



It is a rare species in the Collections. 



*2ig. AGYRTRIA (?) LUCIAE, Lawr., Proceed., Acad., Nat., Sci., 



Philad., 1867, p. 233. 



Lucy's Emerald, Gould, Mon. Troch., Suppl., 1886, p. 78. 



Le Thaumatias de Lucie, Musi., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1874, 

 t. i., p. 241. 



Habitat. — Honduras. 



Upper plumage dull bronzy dark green, crown duller; 

 uppertail-coverts a lighter bronzy-green somewhat golden ; 

 tail feathers dull bronzy-green, all except the two central ones 

 broadley marked near their ends with dark purplish-bronze, 

 the tips being ashy-gray ; the throat and breast are glittering 

 bluish-green ; middle of the abdomen white ; wings brownish- 

 purple. Upper mandible black, the under one yellow with 

 the end blackish ; feet black. 



Length, 3}in. Wing, 2^-. Tail, if. Bill, -ff- " Lawr., loc. cit." 



This species was dedicated to Miss Lucie Brewster, daughter 

 of Mr. Thomas Brewster, of Boston. 



*22o. Agyrtria NORRisii, Bourc, P.Z.S., 1847, p. 47. 



Polytmus norrisii, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 108. 



Amazilia norrisii, Reich., Aufz. der Col., 1853, p. 10. 



Pyrrophaena norrisii, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein., i860 

 t. iii., p. 36. 



He?nistilbon norrisii, Gould, Int. Troch., 1861, p. 150. 



Leucodora norrisii, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1874, t. i, 

 p. 309. 



