ADELOMYIA CHLOROSPILA, Gonid. 



Green-spang-led Humming--bird. 



Adelomyia chlorospila, Gould, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) x. p. 452 (1872).— Whitely, P. Z. S. 

 1873, p. 189. — Sclater & Salvin, Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 87 (1873).— Mulsant, 

 Hist. Nat. Oiseaux-Mouches, iii. p. 128 (1877).— EUiot, Synopsis of the Humming- 

 Birds, p. 182 (1878).— Tacz. Orn. P^rou, p. 360 (1884). 



Mr. Henry Whitely discovered the adidt male of this Humming-bird in Peru, though we believe that a 

 female bird was procured by Warszewicz during his travels in the Andes. Its nearest ally is A. inornata, but 

 it has a longer bill than that bird, and moreover has the throat spotted with green instead of being of a 

 bright blue. Mr. Elliot cortsiders that It can only be distinguished from that species by " the green spots 

 on the throat, which, however, are very small arid indistinct." 



Dr. Taczanowski states that Warszewicz obtained this species in Peru at an altitude of 9000 feet. Count 

 von Berlepsch's collection, according to the same author, contains a specimen from Huasampllla, in Southern 

 Peru, procured at a similar elevation ; and Mr. Whitely has published the following note : — 



'* San Antonio, July 5th, 1871. — Shot in the open glade where the preceding specimens were obtained. I 

 took them at first for fen)ales, but could not quite understand that females would fight with such fury as I saw 

 these doing ; so that, to satisfy my curiosity, I shot two of them, and, upon opening the bodies for the purpose 

 of seeing contents of stomach, found to my surprise that both were males. Plumage on back green ; throat 

 and breast light brown, with green spots on throat; tail-feathers tipped with light brown ; bill black: legs, 

 toes, claws, and eye black," 



The following is the original description published in the * Annals ' (/. (?,) : — 



" Crown and upper surface bronzy green, the feathers of the crown and upper tail-coverts greener than those 

 of the back ; over and behind the eye and curving downwards on the sides of the neck a somewhat conspicuous 

 streak of huffy white; ear-coverts blackish brown; throat, chest, and centre of the abdomen bufl^y white, the 

 feathers of the throat punctated with glittering green ; flanks bronzy bufl^; under tail-coverts the same, but 

 lighter ; tail bronzy brown, all the feathers conspicuously tipped with fawn-colour ; bill blackish brown, inclining 

 to yellow beneath ; legs and toes brown, the soles of the latter inclining to yellow ; wings purplish brown. 



*' Total length 31 inches, bill ii wing 2A, tail If." 



[R. B. 8.] 



