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ILLUSTRATIONS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
CHREBA NITIDA, Harrraves. 
Cereba nitida, Hartlaub in Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 84. — Gray, Gen. Birds, App. p. 5. 
Tuis beautiful little bird is thus described by Dr. Hartlaub :— 
“Nitide cyanea; alis, cauda, loris et gutture nigerrimis ; pedibus 
pallide flavis, rostro nigro. 
Resembles C. cerulea (Linn.), but differs, first, in its smaller 
‘ue; secondly, in the length of the beak, which is 44 in C. nitida 
and 8 in C. cerulea; thirdly, in the different shade of the blue, 
vhich is brighter and without that violet tint which we see in 
0. cerulea ; it is nearly the same as the blue of Ampelis cotinga ; 
‘ourthly, in the greater extent of black on the throat.” 
Total length, 3.8; beak to front, i$; to gape, 5; wing, i.5; 
medial and external rectrices, 1.1; tarsus, 44. 
Dr, Hartlaub’s specimen was obtained in the north of Peru, 
brobably, however, on the east side of the Andes, for the one here 
ne was procured by Mr, E. Wilson, from the upper branches 
le Amazons.—H. E. Strickland. 

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