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Mr. Gould had considerable doubts as to the position of this bird, the exact habitat of which still remains unknown.
Mr. Elliot has placed it in the genus Amazilia, but at the end of the genus, as if he too considered it a little aberrant.
The following was the original description of the species, as published in 1860:—
It is a very elegant species, and quite distinct from every other known Humming-bird; in its glittering light-green crown, throat, and chest it looks like a Chlorostilbon, but the form of its tail and some other characters ally it to the Erythronotæ, with which I have provisionally placed it.
Adult. Crown and all the under surface of the body glittering light-green; back of the neck and back golden- or orange-green; upper tail-coverts purplish-red or puce-colour; tail long, forked, and of a purplish-violet hue with green reflexions on the tips of the two centre feathers; wings purplish-brown; tarsi white; under tail-coverts grey with bronzy-purple centres; upper mandible flesh-colour at the base, and black for the remainder of its length; under mandible flesh-colour, except at the tip, which is black.
[R. B. S.]
Amazilia pristina
Amazili
Amazilia alticola
Mountain Amazili
Amazilia Dumerili
Dumeril’s Amazili
Amazilia leucophæa
White-breasted Amazili
Amazilia graysoni
Grayson’s Amazili
Amazilia cupreicauda
Copper-tailed Amazili
Amazilia iodura
White-vented Amazili
Amazilia lucida
Elliot’s Amazili
Amazilia warszewiczi
Warszewicz’s Amazili
Featuring all 422 illustrated species from John Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming-Birds arranged by color.
Humming-Birds