392 Genera of Humming Birds. 



from maxilla passing under the ear-coverts pale buff. Ear- 

 coverts black. Throat and breast gray, striated with brownish- 

 black on chin and throat. Abdomen and flanks deep buff. 

 Undertail-coverts pale buff, nearly white in some specimens. 

 Wings purple. Maxilla black. Mandible flesh-colour at base, 

 rest black. 



Total length, 3fin. Wing, i^. Tail, if. Culmen, \. 



jF^";;?^/^. -^Underside paler gray on breast, and paler buff on 

 abdomen and flanks. 



"^534. Eeremita riojae, Berlepsch, Ibis., 1889, p. 182. 



Peruvian Hermit. 



r Hertnite peruvien. 



Habitat. — Rioja, Peru, septentr. 



Male. — P. striigulari affinis, sed major ; differt etiam 

 corpore subtus rufescentiore, et gula superiore nigrescentiore ; 

 rectricum externarum apicibus subtilissime albo marginatis 

 (nee late fulvo apicatis), tectricibus subcandalibus pure albis 

 nee fulvescentibus ; macula pectorali fere ut in P pygmaeo e 

 plumis latis nigro-viridibus (in P. striigulari omnino ab- 

 sentibus.) 



Long, tota, no; al, 44^; rectr intermed, 41^, submed, 

 36^, extern, 22^, rost culm, 23I mm. 



Type of species, Museum Berlepsch. 



Discovered in May, 1887, by Mr. Gustav Garlepp. This is 

 evidently a new species of Phaethornis, nearly allied to, but 

 easily distinguishable from P. striigularis by its larger size, 

 blacker throat, deeper fulvous abdomen, pure white (not 

 fulvous) undertail-coverts, and narrow white borders instead 

 of broad fulvous tips to the outer tail-feathers. The feathers 

 in the middle of the breast are broad and greenish black, they 

 form a tuft somewhat as in the male of P. pygmaeus and its 

 allies, while such a tuft is altogether wanting in P. striigularis. 



535. Eremita adolphi, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. i., p. 35. 



Pygniornis adolphi, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein., i860, 

 t. iii., p. 7. 



Adolphe' s Hermit, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. i., p. 35. 



Le Pygmornis d'Adolphe, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1874, vol. i., p. 102. 



