APHANTOCHROA HYPOSTICT A, Gou/d. 



Spotted-breasted Humming-bird. 



Aphantochroa hjposticta, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 124.— Sclater & Salv. Nomencl. 

 Av. Neotr. p. 80 (1873).— Whitely, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 189.— Taczanowski, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 545.— Elliot, Synopsis of the Humming-Birds, p. 29 

 (1878).— Sclater & Salv. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 627.— Eudes-Deslongchamps, 

 Annuaire Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Caen i. p. 164 (1880). 



Aphantochroa hypostictus, Mulsant, Hist. Nat. Oiseaux-Mouches, iv. p. 151 (1876). 



Polytmus hypostictus, Gray, Hand-list of Birds, i. p. 125, no. 1571 (1879). 



Some years ago I received specimens of the present bird from Quito, but I have recently considered that they 

 were collected near the waters of the Upper Napo. The species differs from ^. cirrhochlorh in its spotted 

 breast, in its shorter tail, and its rather more lengthened and curved bill. 



It has also been obtained by Mr. Wliitely at San Antonio in Eastern Peru, by Jelski at Soriano in 

 Northern Peru, and by Buckley at Nairapi in Bolivia, showing that it has a wide range through the eastern 

 slopes of the Andes. 



I extract the following description from my original paper : — 



"All the upper surface, wing- and tail-coverts deep green ; wings purjdish brown ; tail dull purplish green, 

 deepening into blackish brown at the tip, the two outer feiithers on each side very slightly fringed with 

 white at the tip ; feathers of the throat, breast, and centre of the abdomen dull white at the base, with a 

 spot of dull green near the tip, giving those parts a spotted appearance ; remainder of the under surface 

 dull green ; under tail-coverts dull green at the base, deepening into black near the end, and fringed with 

 grey ; tarsi and thighs rather thickly clothed with white feathers ; bill black, exce|)t at the base of the under 

 mandible, which appears to have been flesh-colour. Total length 4i inches, bill Ire, wing 21, tail U." 



The figures in the Plate represent an adult bird in two positions. 



