93. OXYPOGON. 339 



a, b. (^ ad. ; c. Tinta, Peru, Jan., May, June, Gould Coll. 

 2 ad. ; d. 2 Dec. (J£. Whitely). 



juv. sk. (Ty])es of the spenies. ). 



e. (S ad. sk. Tinta, May {H. W.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/. $ ad. sk. Huatado, Peru, July (R. W.). Salrin-Godman Coll. 



ff. cT ad. sk. Huatado, Dec. H. Whitely [C.J. 



93. OXYPOGON*. 



Type. 

 Oxypogon, Gould, P. Z. S. 1848, p. 14 O. guerini. 



Range. Andes of Venezuela and Colombia. 



Keif to the Sjyecies. 



a. Lateral rectrices purple-bronze, with the shafts 



only white ; elongated gular feathers white . . lindeni, p. 339. 



b. Lateral rectrices white, with bronzy-brown tips 



and edges. 

 a'. Central elongated gular feathers glittering 



gieen guerini, p. 340. 



v. Central elongated gidar feathers glittering 



blue cyanol<emus, p. 341. 



1. Oxypogon lindeni. 



Ornismya lindeni, Boiss. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 253. 



Trochilus lindeni, Gould, P. Z. S. 1848, p. 14 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 141. 

 Oxypogon lindeni, Gould, Mon. Troch. iii. pi. 183 (June 1849) ; id. 



Intr. Troch. p. 108 ; Bp. Consp. Ai: i. p. 79 ; id. Rev. Zool. 1854, 



p. 253 ; Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 12 ; id. Troch. Erm7n. p. 10, pi. 825. 



ff. 493&-8 ; Cab. if Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 67 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. 



p. 302 ; Mtib. 8r Verr. Class. Troch. p. 73 ; Scl. Sf Salv. P. Z. S. 



1870, p. 782 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Moiwhes, iii. p. 182, iy. p. 219 ; 



id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 222; Mliot, Syn. Troch. p. 156. 



Adult male. Upper surface dark shining olive-green ; crown and 

 sides of the head black ; a median stripe of white over the middle of 

 the crown, branching towards each nostril, and produced backwards 

 forming a portion of a white crest, rest of the crest-feathers black ; 

 chin white, with a median row of small glittering green discal 

 spots, and surrounded by a black border continiious with the black 

 of the sides of the head, this black region is again bordered by a 

 whitish margin ; the lower throat-feathers are prolonged into a 

 beard of white plumes extending as far as the breast ; rest of the 

 under surface dark olive-green like the back, middle of the abdomen 



* I do not know the bird described a3 :^ 

 OxYPOGOK sTUEBELi, Meycf, Zeifschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 204 (1SS4) ; Sharps, 

 in Gould's Suppl. Mon. Troch. 

 Froin a female specimen in bad condition obtained nn the Volcau de Tolima, 

 Colombia. 



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