. The birds of British Guiana : based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell ... . it/ ^ Calliphlox ( 89.—To show tlu- straiglit bill and llic forked tail 424 BIRPS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 2>>1. Calliph-lox Amethyst. Trochili/s amethystinus Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 41, 17S3 (Cayenne).Calliphlox omethystina Salvin, Ibis. 1885, p. 434 (Mei-ume Mts., Roraima) ; id. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 386, 1892 (Demerara) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 145, no. 1841, 1912. Adult male. General colour above bronze-green ; fliorbt-feathersbrown ; tail-
. The birds of British Guiana : based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell ... . it/ ^ Calliphlox ( 89.—To show tlu- straiglit bill and llic forked tail 424 BIRPS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 2>>1. Calliph-lox Amethyst. Trochili/s amethystinus Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 41, 17S3 (Cayenne).Calliphlox omethystina Salvin, Ibis. 1885, p. 434 (Mei-ume Mts., Roraima) ; id. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 386, 1892 (Demerara) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 145, no. 1841, 1912. Adult male. General colour above bronze-green ; fliorbt-feathersbrown ; tail-feathers brown edged with cinnamon on the innerwebs ; throat amethyst followed by dull white ; abdomen rustybrown. Total length 85 mm., culmen 16, wing 38, tail 32. The male from which the description is taken is in the BritishMuseum, and was collected by Whitely on the Kamarang Riverin August 1885—Balston collection. Adult female. Bronzy green above ; throat dull white, sides ofneck brown; abdomen washed with chestnut. Wing 39 mm. The female described was collected on the Kamuni
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