4. CONIROSTRXIM. 13 



Above cinereous ; wings and tail blackish, wing-coverts and 

 secondaries margined with cinereous ; ear-coverts white ; supercili- 

 aries and body below deep chestnut ; under wing-coverts and thighs 

 white : whole length &'3 inches, wing 3'5, tail '2-4. 



Hah. Andes of Central Ecuador, alt. 14,U00 feet. 



Discovered on Chimborazo by Fraser in 1859, and occasionally 

 since brought in collections from Quito. In 1876 Mr. C. Buckley 

 obtained a single specimen at Sical in Eastern Ecuador. 



a. Ad. sk. Panza, Ecuador (Fraser). Sclater Coll. 



(Type of the species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Sical, Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Pasto, Ecuador {Lehmann). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Ecuador. Purchased. 



4. CONIROSTRUM. 



Type. 

 Conirostrum, d'Orb. et Lafr. Syn. Ac. ii. p. 25 (18.3SJ . . C. cinereum. 



This genus contains a group of about eight small species, distin- 

 guished by their straight, pointed, conical bills, and found only in 

 the higher Andean forests from Colombia to Bolivia. The sexes are 

 similar, except in 0. albifrons and C. atroct/aneum. 



Ken ^^ '^*^ Species. 



A. Abdomen rufous. 



a. Throat black | ^^"Pei'ciliaries black .... 1 sitticohr, p. 13. 



jsuperciharies blue .... 2. cyaneum, ^. l-i. 



b. Throat like the belly ; 



) superciliaries rufous 3. rufum, p. 14. 



) superciliaries white 4. ferruyineiveii*re, p. lo. 



B. Below uniform pale fuscous 5. fraseri, p. lo. 



C. Below uniform cinereous 6. cinereum, p. 15. 



1). Below black ; 



j back bluish ; cap white 7. albifrons, p. 16. 



\ back black ; cap blue 8. atrocyaneum, p. 16. 



1. Conirostrum sitticolor. 



Conirostrum sitticolor, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 102 ; Scl. P. Z. S 

 1855, pp. 75, 138 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 49; Graij et Mitch. Gen. B (. 

 p. 102, pi. 34 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 402 ; C'a,ssin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1864 

 p. 272 ; Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 119 : Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 780 

 (Venezuela) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 15 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 193 ; id. 

 Orn. Perou,i. p. 423 ; Tacz. et Berl. P. Z.S. 1885, p. 75 (Ecuador). 



Conirostrum bicolor, Less. Descr. d. Mamm. et Ois. p. 275. 



Above dull purple ; head, wings, and tail black; wing-coverts and 

 secondaries edged with purple ; below deep rusty red ; throat and 

 neck black like the head; under wing-coverts red; inner mar"-ins 

 of wing-feathers cinerascent ; bill and feet black : whole length°4-5 

 inches, wing 2-6, tail 2-1. Female similar. 



Bab. Andes of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and iS'. Peru. 



