IONOL.EMA WHITELYANA, Goum. 



Wliitely's Humming'-bird. 



Iol(jema ivldteleyana, Gould, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) x. p. 452 (1872). — Sclater & Salvin, 

 Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 82 (1872).— Whitely, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 188. 

 — Muls. Hist. Nat. Oiseaux-Mouches, ii. p. 141 (1876). 



lonolmma ichitelyana, Elliot, Synopsis of the Humming-Birds, p. 59 (1878). 



lonolaima ivhitelyana, Eudes-Deslongchamps, Annuaire Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Caen, i. p. 276 

 (1880). 



Four species of the genus lonolcBma are now known, two of tliem having a brilliant metallic spot on the 

 forehead, viz. 1. frontalis and /. iMtehjana, and two which have no bright spot, /. hminosa and /. schreibersi. 

 The present bird differs from /. frontalis in having the breast green instead of black : it was discovered by 

 Mr. Henry Whitely at Cosnipata in the province of Cuzco, Peru, in August 1871, at an elevation of 2300 

 feet above the level of the sea. 



Mr. AVhitely states that he found the bird very rare, having only met with a male in August, and a 

 female on the 21st of May, 1871. He states that it " frequents flowering plants at the tops of the loftiest 

 trees in the depths of the forest, at nearly all times out of range of gun-shot. Very powerful in flight, and 

 darts from flower to flower with extraordinary rapidity." 



The following description was given by me in the volume of the * Annals ' mentioned above : — 

 ''Male. Crown, aU the upper surface and flanks deep grass-green; an obscure glittering mark on the 

 forehead; chin, chest, and centre of the abdomen jet-black with a broad gorget of beautiful violet on the 

 throat ; the bill, which is stout and straight, is black, as are also the legs and toes ; the tail and under tail- 

 coverts steel-black; primaries and secondaries purplish brown, the external edge of the outer primary 

 reddish brown. Total length 5i inches, bill li, wing 3, tail 24." 



Mr. Whitely gives the soft parts as follows: ''Bill black ; eye dark hazel ; legs, toes, and claws black." 

 The specimens figured in the Plate are the original ones procured by Mr. Whitely, and now in my 

 collection. 



