Species of the Subfamily Diglossinae, 213 



bough, as if in pursuit of insects. I have often seen this 

 species insert its bill into a scarlet and purple flower allied to 

 the Arbutus ; but whether for the purpose of capturing insects 

 or of extracting honey I was not able to ascertain. Its 

 habitat is the Yungas of La Paz. 



" I believe that the specimen described by M. le Baron de 

 Lafresnaye was from my collection.^' 



I am not aware that any other traveller but Mr. Bridges 

 has procured examples of this scarce species. My characters 

 are taken from two specimens of his in the British Mu- 

 seum. Mr. Ey ton's collection contains a skin from the same 

 source. M. de Lafresnaye's type is now in the Museum of 

 the Natural- History Society at Boston, U. S. A., where Mr. 

 Salvin has examined it. 



7. DiGLOSSA CARBONARIA. 



Serrirostrum carbonarium, Lafr. et D'Orb. Syn, Av. ii. p. 25 ; 

 D'Orb. Voy. Ois. p. 373, t. Iviii. fig. 1. 



Diglossa carbonaria, Bridges, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 29; Scl. et 



Salv. Nomencl. p. 15 j Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1864, p. 273 ; 



Reich. Handb. p. 232, t. dhi. f. 3755, et t. dHii. f. 3760, 3761. 



Nigra : tectricibus alarum minoribus, uropygio, subalaribus et 



ventre toto canescenti-plumbeis, crisso rubro : rostro 



nigro, pedibus carneis : long, tola 5*2, alae 2*7, caudae 2*0. 



Hab. Andes of Bolivia. 



Mus. P. L. S. 



This species of Diglossa was discovered by D'Orbigny. He 

 collected specimens at several localities on the eastern slope 

 of the Bolivian Cordillera, at Cajapi in the province of 

 Yungas, at Inquisivi in the province of Sicasica, and at Palca 

 in the province of Ayupaya. Bridges, during his travels in 

 Bolivia, likewise obtained examples of it at several places in 

 Cochabamba, at altitudes of from eight to ten thousand feet. 



Bridges gives us the following notes on this species and D. 

 sittoides : — 



" Birds of this genus are found in the temperate region, 

 where the thickets commence, at an altitude of from 8000 to 

 10,000 feet. I found these species among bushes of Salvia 

 and Eupatorium, on the slopes which fall into the valley of 



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