Illustration not included in supplement volume
Specimens of this bird were sent by Mr. Whitely from British Guiana, and we were induced to figure it under the idea that it was new to science.
Mr. Salvin, however, considers that it is the adult male of M. primolina, and the name of M. heterocerca will have to be suppressed.
[R. B. S.]
Metallura cupreicauda
Coppery-Tail
Metallura æneicauda
Brassy Tail
Metallura Williami
Purple-Tail
Metallura Primolinus
Primoli’s Humming-Bird
Metallura tyrianthina
Tyrian-Tail
Metallura smaragdinicollis
Violet-Tail
Metallura jelskii / heterocerca
Jelski’s Copper-tail
Metallura chloropogon
White-vented Copper-tail
Metallura eupogon
Red-throated Copper-tail
Featuring all 422 illustrated species from John Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming-Birds arranged by color.
Humming-Birds