43. HELIOTRVPHA. 165 



rather brighter ; throat black, each feather with a dusky spot on 

 the lateral margin. 



Hah. Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, on the slopes of the Andes 

 between Iliimani and Sorata. 



a. (^ ad. ; b, c. " Banks of the Maranon " Gould Coll. 



5 ad. sk. (Wwszewiez). (Types of the species. ) 



d, e. cS ad. sk. Jima, Ecuador {Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/. c? ad. ; i'. $ R. Napo, Ecuador. Salvia-Godman Coll. 



ad. sk. 



h-j. ^ ad. sk. Ecuador. Gould Coll. 



k. (S ad. sk. Tambillo, Peru, 25th April Sclater Coll. 

 {H. IVJiitely). 



2. Heliotrypha exortis. 



Trochilus e.tortis, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 14. 



Ornismya parzudakii, de Long. ^ Farz. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 72 [nee 



Less.). 

 Eriopus exortis, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 80. 

 Heliangelus parzudakii, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 76. 

 Rhaniphomicron /if. Parzudakia dispar, Reich. Atcfz. d. Col. p. 12 ; 



id. Troch. Etimn. p. 10, pi. 833. ff. 4y60-62. 

 Heliotrypha parzudakii, Bp. Rev. Zoo!. 1854, p. 252 ; Gould, Mo7i. 



Troch. iv. pi. 240 (May 1860) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 131 ; id. P. Z. S. 



1870, p. 803 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 308 ; Muh. ct Verr. Class. Troch. 



p. 69; Mtds. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 219; Scl. (S" Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 529 ; Tacz. Sf Berl. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 105. 

 Heliotryphon parzudakii, Cab. ^- Heine, Mas. Hein. iii. p. 74. 

 Heliotrypha exortis, Elliot, Ibis, 1876, p. 318 ; id. Sy7i. Troch. p. 87 ; 



Mids. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouclies, iii. p. 95, iv. p. 218 ; Berl. J. f. 



Orn. 1887, p. 322. 

 Trochilus parzudakii. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 140. 



Adult male. Upper surface dark shining grass-green, nearly black 

 in certain lights on the upper tail-coverts ; neck and nape, forehead 

 (narrowly) and breast glittering grass-green ; sides of the chin and 

 throat black ; a large gular spot ghttering rosy red, shading into blue 

 on the middle of the chin ; rest of the under surface dark shining 

 grass-green ; under tail-coverts white ; central rectrices very dark 

 bronzy green, lateral purplish black ; biU black. Total length 

 about 4-3 inches, wing 2-6; tail, central rectrices 1-3, lateral 1-8; 

 bill 0-8. 



Female. Upper surface like the male but Kghter, the forehead less 

 brilliant ; throat brown, with a large white central patch ; lateral 

 rectrices narrowly tipped with dusky white. 



Young birds have a brown throat supplanted by glittering rosy 

 red in the male and white in the female. Young males assume 

 their glittering feathers at a very early age, sometimes when only 

 half-grown. 



Hub. Colombia, Ecuador. 



a-d. S ad. ; e. Medellin, Colombia ( T. K. Gould Coll. 



(S juv. sk. Salmon), 



f. J ad. sk. .\uti()C[uia, Colombia (jT. K. S.). Salviu-Godnuui Coll. 



