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Plate XLI. (Fig. 2.)
CHLOROPHONIA LONGIPLNNIS.
XONG-VINGED CHLOEOrHONE).
Chlorophonia Ion
D u Bus, Bull. Acad. B ru s. sxii. p. 15G, {1855).
Scl. P.Z.S. 1855, p. 158 ; 1856, p . 270 ; e t Cat. Am, Birds, p. 55,
Clare viridis cervice p o stica e t dorso imo cum oculorum am b itu coeruleis, in te rscap u lio eodcm colore lavato •
abdomme to to loete flavo : ro s tro n ig ro , p edibus co rjU n is : long, to ta 4 '5 , a l» 2 55, c au d » \- 2 .-F oe m . viridis, cervice
postieâ e t oculorum am b itu soluoi coeruleis : abdomiue flavescenti-viridi.
Ha b . in No v a G ran ad a inc.
The Viscomte Du Bus de Gisigiiies first characterized the present Tauager in a
cation on new Birds made to the Eoyal Academy o f Sciences o f Belgimn in 185S. As tho
describer allows, the bird is very closely allied to C. viridis o f the South-Eastern wood-region
o f Brazil, and it is not without some hesitation that we admit the two species as distinct. But
C. longipennis seems, as M. Du Bus has pointed ont, to be smaller in size, brighter in colouring,
and to have the wings proportionately longer than the allied species. In tlie adult 0 . viridis
also, the whole back is o f a nearly tuiiform blue, whereas in C. hrujipennis a green tinge pervades
the space between the shoulders, even in the most adult specimens we have met with.
M. Du Bus gives Antioquia in the Cauca valley, in New Graiuada, as the Imbitat ot'
0 . lomjipmnis. Specimens in Selater's collection, from one o f which our figure is taken, are
o f the ordinary Bogota make.