372 THOCHILl. 



Adult male. \ery similar to that of E, lu/jens, hni with the tihial 

 tufts partly white, partly palo chestnut. 

 Hab. Ecuador. 



a. Ad. tik. Ecuador (Jameson). Gould Coll. (Type 



of the species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Quito, Ecuador {Jameson). Gould Coll. 



c-f. Ad. sk. Ecuador. Salvin-Godman & 



Gould Oolls. 



21. Eriocnemis incultus. 



Eriocnemis incultus, Elliot, Auk, vi. p. 210. 



Upper surface bluish or purplish black, nearly uniform, the upper 

 tail-coverts and tail rather brighter ; under surface very dark dull 

 purple-black, the throat-feathers edged with white, those of the 

 middle of the abdomen with dull grey ; tibial tufts white ; discs of 

 the under tail-coverts bluish with a tinge of green, margins white ; 

 tail nearly even : maxilla black ; mandible flesh-colour at the base, 

 the tip black. Total length about 3-3 inches, wing 2-1, tail 1-15, 

 biU 0-8. 



A curious bii'd, suggesting a melanism of some wholly differently 

 coloured species. The shape of the tail and the colour of the under 

 tail-coverts differ from those of all other species of Eriocnemis. 



Hab. Colombia? Ecuador? 

 a. Ad. ? sk. [Ecuador.] Gould Coll. 



104. PANOPLITES. „ 



Type. 



Boissoneaua, Reich. Atifz. d. Col. p. 11 (March 1854) 



(descv. nulla) P. flavescens. 



Panoplites, Gould, Man. Troch. pt. viii. (Oct. 1854) (fig.) P. flavescens. 



Florisuga (Galenia), Muls. 8f Verr. Class. Troch. p. 47 



(1865) P. jardinii. 



Callidife, Miils. Sr Verr. Class. Troch. p. 65 (1865) . . P. flavescens. 



Alosia, Muls. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 213 (1875) P. matthewsi. 



Range. Andes from Colombia to Peru. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Neck black ; back glittering green jardinii, p. 372. 



b. Upper surface uniform shining grass-green. 



a'. Abdomen chestnut mattheivsi, p. 373. 



v. Abdomen shining green Jlavescens, p. 374. 



1. Panoplites jardinii. 



Trochilus jardinii, Bourc. Compt. Eend. xxii. p. 187 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. "141. 

 Florisuga jardinii, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 14 ; Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, 



p. 253. 

 Panoplites jardinii, Gould, Man. Troch. ii. pi. 112 (Oct. 1854) ; id. 



