ERIOCNEMIS DYBOWSKII, Tacn 



Dybowski's Puff-leg-. 



Eriocnemis dyhowskiiy Tacz, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 39. 



This species we have not seen, but the types are in the Warsaw Museum, to which institution they were 

 sent in 1882 by M, Stolzmann, who procured two males and a female at Ray-urmana in Peru, at a 

 height of from 7000 to 8000 feet. M. Stolzmann states that it was rather scarce, and was met with on 

 the red flowers of a species of Malastoma, 



The following is a translation of Dr. Taczanowski's description: — 



Adult male. Above golden green; below glittering green, the abdomen especially brilliant; centre of 



the breast white, spotted with green; under tail-coverts brilliant green; feet clothed with white plumes; 



quills blackish with a violet gloss ; tail golden green and deeply forked ; bill straight, subcylindrical, 



longer than half the body, black ; feet blackish. 



[R. B. S.] 



