. The birds of British Guiana : based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell ... . ection) ; Demerara [Govldcollection in the British Museum). Kxtralimital Range. Surinam (Linne), North Brazil. Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. Genus GLAUCIS Boie. Glaucis Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 545. Type G. hirsuta (Gmel.). This genus is distinguished by the arched bill and rounded tail,the feathers being somewhat pointed. 254. Glaucis hirsuta. Hairy Hermit. Trochilus liirsiitus Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 490, 1788 (Brazil).Troehihis hraziliensis Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 708,
. The birds of British Guiana : based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell ... . ection) ; Demerara [Govldcollection in the British Museum). Kxtralimital Range. Surinam (Linne), North Brazil. Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. Genus GLAUCIS Boie. Glaucis Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 545. Type G. hirsuta (Gmel.). This genus is distinguished by the arched bill and rounded tail,the feathers being somewhat pointed. 254. Glaucis hirsuta. Hairy Hermit. Trochilus liirsiitus Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 490, 1788 (Brazil).Troehihis hraziliensis Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 708, dominiciis (nee Linn.), Cab. torn. cit. p. 70S, GLAUCIS. 381 Glands liirsuta Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 431 (lloraiuw, 3-300 £t.) ; id. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 41, 1892; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. p. 106, no. 1001, 1912. Adult male. General colour of the upper surface bronze-green,darker and more dusky on the head and more green on the uppertail-coverts and central tail-feathers ; outer tail-feathers chestnutat the base, subapically brown, and the entire tail tipped with white;. l0liftiMi^
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