94. RHAlIPnOMICKON. 341 



h, i. (S juv. 8k. Colombia (Bogota make). Gould Coll. 



;. $ ad. sk. 



k. ^ ad.; /. 2 ad.st. Bogota. Purchased. 



m. S ad. ; n. $ Purchased. 



ad. St. 



3. Oxypogon cyanolaemus. 



Ox^'pogon cyanolsemus, Salo. Sf Godm. Ibis, 1880, p. 172, pi. 4. f. 2 ; 

 Sharpe in Goulds Mon. Troch., Suppl. pi. 41 (Jan. 1883) ; 

 eHHamonv. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. viii. p. 79. 



Adult male, llesembles that of 0. guerini, but has the sides of the 

 crown greener, and the elongated feathers of the middle of the 

 throat glittering violet-blue instead of green ; the lateral rectrices 

 also are more extensively white. Total length about 4"5 inches, 

 wing 2-9; tail, central rectrices 1"7, lateral 2-2; bill O'oo. 



Female. May be distinguished by the greater amount of white on 

 the lateral rectrices, which extends across those feathers, leaving 

 the tip alone bronzy brown. 



Hah. Highlands of Northern Colombia. 



ac. cJad.; d. Sierra Nevada, Santa Marta, Co- Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 $ad. sk. lombia, alt. 11,000 ft., July {F. 



Simons). (Types of the species.) 



e. d'ad. ;/. J Sierra Nevada, Santa Marta, alt. Gould Coll. 

 ad. sk. 11,000 ft., July {F. Simons). 



94. RHAMPHOMICRON. 



Rhamphomicron, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 79 R. microrhynchum. 



Rhamphomicron y. Chalcostigma, Reich. Avfz. 



d. Col. p. 12 R. heteropogon. 



Chalcostigma, Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 67. R. heteropogon. 

 Lampropogon, Bp. Rev.- Zool. 1854, p. 252 .... R. heteropogon. 

 Ramphomicron (Eupogonus), Muls. S; Verr. 



Classif. Troch. p. 73 (1865) R. herrani. 



Eupogonus, Muls. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. 



p. 222. 



Banrje. Andes from Northern Colombia to Bolivia. 



This genus is a somewhat composite one, and might be separated 

 into three or perhaps four, for which the following names are 

 available : — Rhamphomicron for section a of the subjoined key, 

 Chalcostigma or Lampropogon for 6', and Eupogonus for h. This last 

 section might be again separated, and in this case R. rujiceps would 

 require a new generic name. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tail deeply forked, the outermost pair of 



rectrices longest, the rest graduating to the 



central pair. 



n'. Bill shorter, slightly decm-ved ; glittering 



gular feathers uniform. (Rhamphomicron.) 



a". Upper surface rich purple ynicrorhynchiim, p. 342. 



h" . Upper surface black dorsale, p. 343. 



