30. HELTANTHEA, 127 



Adult male. Upper surface brouzy green, almost black ou the 

 crown ; upper tail-coverts ciunamon ; under surface shining grass- 

 green, darker on the throat, lighter on the breast, a violet gular 

 spot; feathers of the middle of the breast edged with white, forming 

 an indistinct pectoral baud ; lower abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 ciunamon ; tail cinnamon, narrowly tipped with bronzy green ; 

 outermost primary edged with ciunamon ; bill black. Total length 

 about 5"3 inches, wing 3'25 ; tail, central rectrices 1'8, lateral 2-1 ; 

 bill 1-6. 



Female. Crown greener than in the male ; the under surface 

 cinnamon ; each feather of the breast with a shining grass-green 

 discal spot. 



Young males are like the females ; the gular spot is assumed 

 before the throat becomes green. 



In very young birds the under surface is dusky, and this is 

 superseded, at least on the breast, by cinnamon feathers with green 

 disks. 



Hab. Bolivia. 



a, b. J" ad. ; c. Saudillani road, Yuugas, Gould Coll. 



5ad.sk. Bolivia (^r/r/y/es). (Types of the species.) 



d. (5 ad. sk. Cbulumani, Bolivia ( Warsze- Salviu-Godmau Coll. 



wiez). 



e. cJad.;/. 5 J] nd\xa.vi, Bo]ivia (Bucklei/). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 ad. sk. 



ff. c? ad. ; /;. Tilotilo, BoUvia {Buckley). Salviu-Godmau Coll. 



(S juv. sk. 

 i-vu (S ad. ; n. Bolivia {Buckley). Gould Coll. 



$ ad. sk. 



6. Helianthea osculans. 



HeUauthea osculans, Gould, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 503 : Whitely, P. Z. S. 



1873, p. 191 ; JElliot, Ibis, 1874, p. 334 ; id. Syn. Troch. p. 73 ; 



Skarpe in Gould's Sujjjyl. Troch. pi. 18 (Mar. 1887). 

 Calligeuia osculans, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, ii. p. 310, pi, 64, 



iv. p. 212 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 216. 



Adult male. Upper surface golden bronze ; crown dark shining 

 grass-green, with a glittering green frontal spot ; uuder surface 

 bright shining grass-green, a little darker on the chin, and more 

 golden on the upper abdomen and flanks, a violet gular spot ; 

 middle of the abdomen and under tail-coverts cinnamon ; tail 

 cinnamon, tipped with bronzy green ; outermost primary edged with 

 cinnamon ; bill black. Total length about 5"5 inches, wing 3 • 

 tail, central rectrices 1-G.5, lateral 1"9 ; bill 1*6. 



Female. Upper surface greener than that of the male, not so 

 golden, the central rectrices bronzy green throughout, no frontal or 

 gular spots ; under surface pale ciunamon ; all the feathers but 

 those of the middle and lower abdomen with a bright green discal 

 spot, smaller on the throat, larger on the breast. 



Mab. Peru, tSouthern Provinces. 



