338 TROCIULl. 



1877, p. 142; id. Si/n. Troch. p. 37; Scl. Sf Salt. P. Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 627 ; Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 176. 

 Orotrochilus adela, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 15 ; Mtds. Hist. 

 Kaf. Oijf.-Mouchefi, ii. p. 174; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. 

 p. 211. 



Adult male. Like that of 0. melanogaster, but with the abdomen 

 more narrowly blue-black, and the flanks broadly and conspicuously 

 deep chestnut ; the lateral rectrices are pale buff edf^ed with bluish 

 black, instead of being uniform greenish black ; bill black. Total 

 length about 5 inches, wing 2-65, tail 2, bill I'B. 



Adult female. Under surface chestnut ; throat whitish, thickly 

 spotted with brown ; lateral rectrices dull white, with a wide sub- 

 terminal dark bar. 



Hah. Andes of Bolivia. 



a. (5 ad. sk. Cachira, Bolivia (BacMey). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Misqui, Bolivia ( Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. d. (S&A.; e,f. TioXWiB. {Buckley). Gould Coll. 



$ ad. sk. 

 g-i. c? ad. ; /. S [Bolivia.] Gould & Sclater 



juv.; k, l. 2 Colls, 



ad. .sk. 



92. OREONYMPHA. ^ ^^ 



Oreonympha, Gould, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 295 O. nobilis. 



Range. Highlands of Southern Peru. 



1. Oreonympha nobilis. 



Oreonympha nobilis, Goxld, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 295 ; id. Man. Troch., 

 Suppl. pi. 42 (Aug. 1880) ; Scl. Sf Salv. P. Z. S. 1809, p. 600 ; 

 Whitely, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 675 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iii. 

 p. 175, pi. 86 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 222 ; Llliot, Syn. 

 Troch. p. 157 ; Tacz. Orn. Per. 1. p. 344. 



Adnlt male. Upper surface shining bronzy brown, a broad band 

 from the forehead over the middle of the crown very dark brown, 

 on either side of which is a wide band of glittering blue ; sides of 

 the head and throat nearly black ; chin and middle of the throat 

 glittering green, terminating in a few long glittering reddish 

 amethyst feathers ; sides of the neck and under surface whitish, 

 rather more dusky on the flanks and abdomen ; under tail-coverts 

 bronzy brown edged with whitish : central rectrices bronzy brown, 

 outermost pair pure white, with the distal third of the outer part 

 of the inner web bronzy brown, remaining rectrices white at the 

 base, bronzy brown towards the distal end ; bill black. Total length 

 about 6-5 inches, wing 3-3 ; tail, central rectrices 1-75, lateral 2-85 ; 

 bill 1-2. 



Female. Upper surface like that of the male, the crown greenish 

 blue, the feathers of the middle broadly edged with dark brown ; 

 throat black, a few glittering green feathers on the chin. 



Hab. Highlands of Southern Peru. 



