30. HELIANTHEA. 123 



Diplilogsena aurora, Gould, Mo)i. Troch. iv. pi. 248 (Sept. 1861) : id. 



Intr. Troch. p. 134; Muh. Sf Verr. Class. Troch. p. 61 ; Mids. Ann. 



Sue. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 216 ; Scl. ^- Salr. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 630 ; 



Sharpe in Gould's Siippl. Troch. pi. 17 (April 1885). 

 Diplilogsena warszewiezi, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 204 ; id. Orn. Per. i. 



p. 383. 



Adult male. Body above and below and tlie tail chestnut; nape 

 black ; crown and anterior part of the throat glittering green, be- 

 coming more blue towards the base of the bill and more golden 

 towards the nape, where occasionally one or two deep-blue feathers 

 may be seen ; lower neck shining grass-green, duller than the throat ; 

 outermost quill purple-brown edged with chestnut, the inner quills 

 chestnut edged with purple-brown. Total length about 5'5 inches, 

 wing 3-2 ; tail, central rectrices 1-4, lateral 2 ; bill 1-4. 



Female. Like the male, but with the crown and throat less brilliant 

 and the former of a more uniform glittering green. 



Taczanowski uses Eeichenbach's name C. ivarszcivkzi for this 

 species, which cannot, I think, be justified. Gould's paper in which 

 his H. aurora was described was read before the Zoological Society 

 on 22nd March, 1853, and was noticed in the ' Athenaeum ' for that 

 year. Ptcichenbach's ' Aufziihlung der Colibris ' was certainly not 

 published before March 1854, and in it Gould's name is mentioned 

 as HelianfJtea y. Hypoclirysea aurora, which seems conclusive as to 

 its priority. 



Hah. Peru and Bolivia : on the eastern slopes of the Andes at an 

 elevation of between 9000 and 10,000 feet. 



a, h. (5 ad. sk. Cuter vo, Peru, Jan. (Stolz- Salviu-Godmau & 



viann). Sclater Colls. 



c, d. (S ad. ; e. Between Illimani aud Sorata, Gould Coll. (Types 



(^ juv. fik. Bolivia ( Warszewiez). of the species.) 



30. HELIANTHEA. 



Type. 



Ileliauthea, Gould, P. Z. S. 1848, p. 11 H. tj'pica. 



Helianthea y. Hvpochrysia, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 9 



(partim) (l8o4 ) 

 Diphlogseua (Helianthea), MiUs. ^- Verr. Classif. 



Troch. p. 61 (I860). 

 Calligenia, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, ii. p. 305 



(1876) II. lutetioe. 



Ranrje. Andes from Venezuela and Colombia to Bolivia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Abdomen lustrous, 



a'. Rump glittering greenish plumbeous; abdomen 



glittering silvery-rose typica, p. 124. 



//. Piump and abdomen glittering golden orange. 



a". Tail nlivp-grfeu : secondaries purple-brown. Imiapartii, p. 124. 

 b". Tail and secondaries chestnut eos, p. 125. 



