EUSTEPHANUS LEYBOLDI Gould.
Leybold’s Firecrown.
Eustenlumm leyholdi, Gould, Atm. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4tk sériés, vol. r i. p. 4 0 6 .— Sclater,
Ibis, 1 8 7 1 , p. 1 8 1 .— lie ed , Ibis, 1 8 7 4 , p. 8 4 .— Mulsant, H ist. Nat. Oiseaux-
Mouches, p. 2 5 6 .— Elliot, Synopsis Trochil. p. 94.
About tea years ago Dr. Leybold, of the Santiago Museum, Chili, was iu London, and frequently vis,ted
my house, when we had several conversations respecting the Humming-birds of the Juan-Fernandez group,
c o n c e r n in g which he had much to tell me. Amongst
information Dr. Leybold gave about the Firecrowns o f Juan Fernandez. He prom aed me that on
his return to Chili he would send a collector and get me specimens, if possible, from the group wh ch
promise he faithfully fulfilled, with the result that a new species of Humm.ng-b.rd was found to exist
l i M l M B M presented to me by Dr Leybold . and in —
tl m a n 's . w to it I was only adding one more acknowledgment of his zeal and devotion to the
Museum under his charge, while at the same time it expressed my own personal obligations to him for his
BhIbBM present species that it is only the female bird that1 1
characters for specific separation from E. H i It is an unusual thing for species to be founded on
1 r 1 H I • but there are several parallel cases known to ornithologists where the males are nearly
f c w i i l e * e females are quite different. The following description of the species is taken from my
i M B i M M is iu many respects very similar to the bird usually called E.
differs in having a longer bill, and in the ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ¡p g jg ^ ^ o f^ e in g generady dispersei^^ver the
part of the under surfacei an t e an^ . ^ ^ ^ ^ difference between the two consists m
■ ■ f f i i those of 1 1 having their outer webs green and their inner ones
whoby white. I d e in the present bird the enter webs and the basal portion of the inner ones are green,
and only the apical portion of the latter white.
r f i ^ ‘ i f r m e ! r ^ L ‘1 he specimens in my collection, and represent a pair of
birds of the size of life.