340 TROCHILT. 



greyish ; under tail-coverts olive-green ; central rectricea olive-green, 

 remainder pur|)lish bronze, -with the shafts for three parts of their 

 length white : bill black. Total length about 5 inches, wing 2-9 ; 

 tail, central rectrices 1-8, lateral 2-25 ; bill 0*5. 



Female. AVitliout the elongated feathers of the crest and throat ; 

 crown dull greenish brown ; throat and breast white, each feather 

 with a dusky discal spot. 



Hah. Highlands of Venezuela. 



a. (S ad. sk. Paramo of Merida, Venezuela Salvia-Godman Coll. 



{A. Goering). 



h. 2 ad. sk. Sierra Nevada, Merida {A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Goering). 



c. 2 ad.sk. Merida (Goerw^r). (lould Coll. 



d-i. (S ad. sk. ; j, Merida. Gould Coll. 



k. Juv. sk. 



/. c? ad. sk. " New Granada." Sclater Coll. 



7)1. S ad. St. Venezuela. Purchased. 



2. Oxypogon guerini. 



Ornismya guerini, Boiss. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 7 ; Lodd. P. Z. S. 1843, 



p. 122. 

 Trochilus parvirostris, Fiaser, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 18. 

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



p. 141. 

 Oxypogon guerini, Gould, Man. Troch. iii. pi. 182 (June 1849) ; id. 



Intr. Troch. p. 108 ; Bp. Co7isp. Ai\ i. p. 79 ; id. Bev. Zool. 1854, 



p. 253 ; Beicli. Aufz. d. Col. p. 12 ; id. Troch. Bnum. p. 10, pi. 624. 



If. 4932-5 ; Cab. ^ Heine, Mits. Hein. iii. p. G7 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. 



p. 302 ; Muls. 8r Verr. Class. Troch. p. 73 ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 



p. 377; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-M ouches,^ iii. p. 178, pi. 87, iv. 



p. 219 ; id. Ann. Sac. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 222 ; Elliot, Sijn. 



Troch. p. 156. 



Adult male. Similar to that of 0. Undent, but with the crown 

 and sides of the head and throat smoky black, the former tinged 

 with very dark bronze : all the white portions of the crest and sides 

 of the lieck less pure and slightly tinged with very pale bufC ; the 

 o-reen spots of the feathers of the centre of the throat are much 

 elongated, and form a long ghttering green gular patch ; the lateral 

 rectrices have a large elongated central white patch involving the 

 shaft and the adjoining portions of the web on either side, and in 

 the outermost pair reaching on the outer web to the margin. Total 

 length about 4-5 inches, wing 2*8 ; tail, central rectrices 1*6, lateral 

 2-1 ; bill 0-5. 



Female. Differs from that of 0. lindeni in the markings of the 

 lateral rectrices, in which it resembles its male. 



Hah. Highlands of Colombia, vicinity of Bogota, &c. 



n c7 ad sk. Paramo of Pamplona, Colombia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(C. W. Wyatt). 



b-q d ad. sk. Colombia (Bogota make). Salvin - Godman, 



Gould, k Sclater 

 Colls. 



