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female, collected by Delattre (Ex Collection Bourcier), and 

 several specimens collected by Buckley in Ecuador. 



Genus LXXX. Chlorestes, Reich., Aufz. der Col., 1853, 



p. 7. 



HALIA, Muls. and Verr., Cat. Ois. Mou. 1875, p. 12. 



Type : Tcyanogenys, Wied. 



Bill straight, about the length of the head ; rather broad at 

 base, sharply pointed. Nostrils exposed. Wings long and 

 pointed, reaching nearly the end of tail. Tail rounded, 

 rectrices narrow, outermost one slightly shorter than the 

 others. Feet small. Tarsi clothed. Sexes unlike. 



Habitat. — Trinidad, Venezuela, Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, 

 and Peru. 



*258. Chlorestes cyanogenys, Max Wied, Beit. (1825-33), 



t. iv., p. 10. 



Ornismya wiedi, Less., Suppl. Ois. Mou., 1829, p. 150. 



Hylocharis cyanogenys, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 115. 



Saucerottia cyanogenys, Reich., Aufz. der Col. 1853, p. 7. 



Eucephala cyanogenys, Gould, Int. Troch., 1861, p. 167. 



Blue-faced Sapphire, Gould, Mon. Troch., Suppl. 1886, p. 93. 



V Encéphale de Wied, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1878, 

 t. iv., p. 190. 



Habitat. — Brazil. 



Male. — Maxilla and feet black, the mandible flesh colour 

 with black tips. Upperpart golden-green with reddish-bronze 

 reflections. Primaries purplish-brown. Tail dark steel-blue 

 with blue and golden reflections. Chin beautiful blue as in 

 E. caerulea. Anal region white. 



Total length about 3m. Wing, \\\. Tail, \. Bill, f. 



Female. — Differs in having the under part grayish-white 

 (Pr. Max. I.e.) 



I have several specimens from Bahia, which correspond 

 exactly to the above description, excepting the blue and 

 golden reflections of tail. The bill is shorter by § inch from 

 the ordinary specimens of Chlorestes caerulea; but I am not 

 certain at all that it should be kept as a separate species, as I 



