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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...2 in. Tail, If in. Culmen, in. Female. Above golden-green; beneath gray. Tail green at base, rest steel-blue, lateral feathers tipped with white. 3. Thalurania furcata. Trochilusfurcatus, Gmel., Syst. Nat. (1788), vol. i, p. 486.--Lath., Ind. Ornith., yol. i, p. 304 (1790). Ornismya furcata. Less., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., p. 82, pi. 18 (1829). Polytmus furcatus, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 108, sp. 61. Coeligena Thalurania) gyrinno, Reich., Enum., p. 3, pi. 682, figs. 4500-1. Thalurania furcata, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii, pi. 101.--Id., Intr. Troeh., octavo ed., p. 77.--Bon., Consp. Gen. Ay., vol. i, p. 76.--Id., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (1854), p. 254.--Reich., Aufz. der Colib., p. 7.--Gab. and. Hein., Mus. Hein. Th., iii, p. 24.--Salv. and Elliot, Ibia (1873), p. 366.--Muls., Hist. Nat. Oia. Moach., torn, iii, p. 71. Thalurania subfurcata, Hein., Journ. flir Ornith. (1863), p. 181. Sab. Guiana. Male. Head dull green, black in certain lights; upper parts of back brilliant purple; rest of back and upper tail coverts grass-green. Throat and upper part of breast luminous grass-green. Under parts brilliant purple like the back. Upper and under tail coverts dark green. Tail blue-black. Maxilla black. Mandible brownish-black. Total length, 3f in. Wing, 1 in. Tail 1 in. Culraen in. Female. Upper parts grass-green; beneath gray. Median rectrices green, lateral ones bluish-black tipped with white. 4. Thalurania furcatoides. Thalurania furcatoides, Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xvi (text to T. furcata).--Id., Tntr. Troch., octavo ed., p. 357 (1861).--Salv. and Elliot, Ibis (1873), p. 357.--Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., torn, iii, p. 73. Thalurania forficata, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein. Th., iii, p. 24 (1860). Bab. Para. This species only differs from the T. fu...
