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Bill black, feet flesh-color. Total length, 61 in. Wing, 41 in. Tail, 3| in, Cul- 

 men, 11 in. 



Female. Top of head dark brown, white spot behind the eye. Upper parts 

 bronzy-green, darkest on the rump. Greater wing coverts blue, primaries and 

 secondaries purple-brown. Tliroat, breast, and abdomen rufous. Under tail 

 coverts dark green. Four central tail feathers bronzy-green, rest black with green 

 reflections, and white tips, the external feathers having the outer webs white. Total 

 length, Q)\ in. Wing, 4 in. Tail, 3 in. Culmen, \\ in. 



Genus XXXIII.— PATAGOXA. 



Cynantlitis , Less, (nee Swains., 1827), Tabl. Esp. Ois. Mouch. (1829). p. xii. 

 Patagona , Gray, List of Genera of Birds (1840), p. 18. 

 Hylocharis, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 114 (1848, nee Bote, 1832). 

 Hypermetra, Cab. and Hei.v., Mus. Hein. Th., iii, p. 80 (18G0). 



TyrK. 

 T. yiijas, VieiU. 

 T. gigas, Vieill. 

 T. gigas, Vieill. 

 T. gigas, Vieill. 



Fiff. 33. 



C7i. Size very large. Bill much 

 longer than the head, straiglit, 

 stout. Feathers of the forelicad 

 projecting slightly upon the cul- 

 men, hiding the nostrils. Wings 

 very long, reaching nearly to the 

 end of the tail, pointed. Tail 

 long, forked. Feet large, stout ; 

 tarsi clothed to the toes. Sexes 

 alike. 



Patagona jiQQt. S. Tinta, Peru. "Wliiiely, 



Range. Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chili. 



This genus contains the largest species of Humming-birds known, and the remarks 

 already made upon the genus Pterophanes, are equally applicable here. In a 

 general arrangement of the Family, it evidently belongs somewhere in this neigh- 

 borhood, but we must wait for future discoveries to sliow us its exact position. 



1. Fatagona gigas. 



Trochilus gigas, Vieill., Gal. Ois., torn, i, p. 296, pi. 180 (1834). 



Ornism>/a ICynajithus) tristris, IjESs., Ois. Jilouch., p. 43, t. 3 (1829). - . 



Orniamya gigantea, D'Orb. and Lafres., Syn. Av., p. 2G, sp. 1 (1838). 



Palagona gigas. Gray, List of Gen. Birds (1840), p. 14. — Bon-., Consp. Gen. Av., vol. i, p. 75 — Id.. Rev. and 

 Mag. Zool. (18.'-)4), p. 2.il.— Reich., Anfz. dcr Colib., p. 14 (1853).— Id., Trocli. Enum., p. 11 (1855).— 

 GocLD, Mon. Troch., vol. iv, pi. 232.— Id., Intr. Troch., octavo ed., p. 127 (1801).— MuLS., Hist. Nat. Ois. 

 Moueh., torn, ii, p. 194 — Elliot, Ibis (1877), p. 134. 



Hylocharis gigas. Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 114. 



Hypermetra gigas, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein. Th., iii, p. 80 (1860). 



Hah. West coast of South America from Ecuador into Chili. 



Adult. Upper surface pale greenish-brown, with a patch of white on the rump. 

 AVings purplish-brown. Throat and abdomen rusty-red, the feathers of the former 

 witli a blackish-brown spot at the tip. Breast pale brown, feathers edged with 

 buff". Under tail coverts white. Tail dark brownish-green. Shafts of lateral 



