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96. PATAGONA. 



Type. 



Tatagona, Gray, List Gen. B. (1840), p. 18 P. gigas. 



Hypermetra, Cub. iy Hei?ie, 3Im. Hein. iii. p. 80 (1860) . . P. gigas. 



licuige. Andes from Ecuador to Chili and the Argentine Republic. 



1. Patagona gigas. 



Trochilus gigas, Vieill. Gal. Vis. i. p. 296, pi. 180 ; Gould, Voy. 

 Beayle, iii. p. Ill; Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 114; Cassin in 

 Gilliss's E.vpl. E.rp. ii. p. 186 ; Gray, Hancl-l. B. i. p. 150. 



Ornismya tristis, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, pp. xii, 43, pi. 3. 



Trochihis tristis. Less. Ind. Gen. Troch. p. iv. 



Gynantlius tristis, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 272. 



Ornismya gigantea, d'Orb. 8f Lafr. Syn. Ai\ p. 26. 



Patagona gigas, Bp. Consp. i. p. 75 ; id. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 251 ; 

 Reich. Atifz. d. Col. p. 17 ; Gordd, Mon. Troch. iv. pi. 232 (May 

 1855) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 127 ; Des Murs in Casteln. Voi/. i. 

 p. 38 ; Jameson 8,- Fraser, Ibis, 1859, p. 399 : Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, 

 p. 81, 1867, p. 328 ; id. Cat. Atn. B. p. 307; Muls. Sr Verr. Class. 

 Troch. p. 56 ; Scl. ^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 988, 1868, p. 569, 1869, 

 p. 154, 1879, p. 629 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 545, 1879, p. 238 ; 

 id. Orn. Per. i. p. 373 ; Mtds. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, ii. p. 194, 

 pi. 44, iv. p. 204; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 212; Elliot, 

 Ibis, 1877, p. 134 ; id. Syn. Troch. p. 67 ; E. W. White, P. Z. S. 

 1882, p. 615; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 366; Scl. Sr Huds. Ary. 

 Orn. ii. p. 4. 



Hypermetra gigas, Cah. ^ Heine, Mtis. Hein. iii. p. 81 ; Heine, J. f. 

 'Orn. 1863, p. 216. 



Adult male. Upper surface brown faintly washed with green, 

 each feather with a pale dusky edge ; a patch of white on the rump ; 

 under surface dark rufous, especially on the throat and abdomen ; 

 breast^feathers brown at the base, with I'ufous margins ; chin dusky 

 white, each feather with a brown centre ; under tail-eoverts white, 

 the longest feathers with a dusky disc ; tail greenish brown, the 

 outermost pair of rectrices pale dusky with dark tip, the next pair 

 paler at the base ; bill black. Total length 8-5 inches, wing 5-2 ; 

 tail, central rectrices 2-8, lateral 3-4 ; bill 1-8. 



Female like the male. 



Young birds have whitish tips to the feathers of the upper 

 surface, including the wing-primaries and the rectrices. They also 

 appear to be more uniformly rnfescent on the under surface. 



Some specimens, especially from Ecuador and Peru, are of a 

 uniform deep rufous colour beneath. These may be in normal 

 female plumage, but I am uncertain on this point. A fem;ile shot 

 at Arequipa on June 10 (?'. e. in raid- winter) is in abraded jdumage ; 

 the under surface is wholly rufous, but on the throat u few new 

 deep rufous feathers are shown. The upper surface of this specimen 



