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into dark browii. In the female he describes the feet as olive-green with black claws ; but I 

 can see no difference between the colours of the feet of the two sexes in dried skins. Wallace 

 found this species in 1850 on the north bank of the Lower Amazons, and G. rufo-viridis taking 

 its place on the south bank. 



In the dried skin the male of G. viridis is of a bright shining green above with coppery 

 reflections, rather more bluish on the head ; the wing-feathers are black within, but outwardly 

 edged with the same colour as the back ; below, the chin is blackish, a large triangular patch 

 covering the throat is white ; next follows a broad breast-band of the same colour as the back ; 

 the belly, flanks, and under wing-coverts are of a deep chestnut-red ; the under surface of the 

 tail is of a deep greenish black; the upper surface is of the same colour as the back. The 

 female differs only in having the throat of a pale rufous and the belly of not quite so dark a 

 chestnut. 



The tail in G. viridis is not so long as in the three succeeding species, the rectrices being 

 much more nearly equal in length. As in all the Galhulce, the outer pair are quite diminutive, 

 being only about 0*8 in lL-r^<-h from their insertion; the second pair measure about 2"5 inches; 

 and the others, half an inch longer, form the slightly rounded extremity. 



In Amazonian specimens [G. quadricolor) the white throat-patch is more contracted, and 

 the green pectoral band rather wider. 



The following are the dimensions of the skins of this species in my collection : — 



No. 



Sex. 



Patria. 



Long, tota, 



alas, 



caudse, 



rostri. 



1. 



6 



Cayenne. 



7-8 



31 



3-4 



1-8 



2. 



2 



Cayenne. 



7-2 



3-2 



3.2 



1-8 



3. 



c? 



Lower Amazons {Wallace). 



7-8 



30 



30 



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The examples figured in Plate 11. are Nos. 3 (fig. 1) and 2 (fig. 2). 



ScL. Jac. & Puffb. No. 11.— October, 1879. 



