otphlog.t;x\. 



121 



Young males sometimes have the throat nearly white owing to 

 the great width of the white edges of the feathers. 

 Nab. Eastern and Southern Brazil. 



rt-r/. d' ad. ;<?,/". cJ j II V. ; Brazil (Bahia make). Salvin-Godmau ..t 



ff, h. 2 ad. sk. Goidd Colls. 



i. (S ad.;/. J ad. sk. Brazil (Rio make). Gould Coll. 



k. cJ ad.'sk. Brazil. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



29. DIPHLOG-ffiNA. rr 



lype. 



Diphlogfena, Gould, 3Ion. Troch. iv. pi. 247 (Oct. 1854) U. iris. 



Range, Andes from Ecuador to Bolivia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Crown with a median stripe of brilliant glittering 

 blue. 



a . Lower back and abdomen chestnut iris, p. 121. 



h'. Lower back and abdomen golden green Aes^e/7«, p. 122. 



h. Crown brilliant golden, shading into bluish green on 



the front, but with no median blue stripe aurora, p. 122. 



1. Diphlogaena iris. 



Helianthea ms, Gould, P. Z. S. 1853, p. 61 ; Bj). Rev. Zool. 1854, 



p. 251. 

 Helianthea y. Hypochiysea iris, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 9 ; id. Troch. 



Enum. p. 6, pi. 735. ff. 4685-86. 

 Diphlogajna iris, Gould, Mon. Troch. iv. pi. 247 (Oct. 1854) ; id. lutr. 



Troch. p. 133 ; Muh. Sf Verr. Class. Troch. i. p. 61 ; Muls. Hist. 



Nat. Ois.-Mouclies, ii. p. 302 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, i. p. 216; 



Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 69; S'cl. S,- Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 629; 



Tacs. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 38 ; id. Orn. Per. i, p. 384. 

 Trochilus iris. Gray, Sand- 1. B. i. p. 138. 

 Diphlogaena iris buckleyi, Berl. Ibis, 1887, p. 295. 



Adult male. Upper hack dark shining green, becoming black 

 towards the nape ; lower back chestnut ; crown glittering fiery 

 copper, rather more golden on the forehead ; a median stripe ex- 

 panding towards the back of the crown rich lustrous violet-blue ; 

 lores and throat as far as the breast glittering green ; a spot in the 

 middle of the throat lustrous lilac ; abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 chestnut ; tail chestnut, the central feathers tipped with bronze ; 

 outer primary purple-brown, edged with chestnut ; inner primaries 

 and secondaries chestnut, edged with purple-brown ; bill black. 

 Total length about 5-5 inches, wing 3-2 ; tail, ceucral rectrices 1-5, 

 lateral 2-2 ; bill 1-4. 



Female. Crown glittering golden green, becoming coppery pos- 

 teriorly, and the blue median stripe appears to be absent or paler ; 

 the throat is glittering green, but without the lilac spot. 



