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" Description given by Mr. Elliot, from a very fine male 

 collected at Huatocto (Peru), by H. Whitely." 



Female ? Centre of crown deep chestnut, rest greenish 

 blue. Sides of face and throat black. Centre of throat 

 metallic green, no pendent tuft. Underpart brownish white. 

 Rest of plumage like that of male. 



This magnificent species was discovered by Mr. Henry 

 Whitely during his scientific expedition in Peru. 



Genus XXXII. Oxypogon, Gould, P.Z.S. 1848, p. 14. 



Type : O. guerini, Boissoneau. 



Head crested. Bill short, straight, and pointed, shorter 

 than the head. Face above and below the bill, ornamented 

 with lengthened feathers. Wings long, reaching nearly the 

 end of tail. Tail long, slightly forked when opened. Median 

 rectrices broad, shorter than the next one and rounded, lateral 

 gradually longer, the two outermost ones of the same length. 

 Feet large. Tarsi naked. Hind toe and nail longer than 

 middle toe and nail. 



Habitat. — Venezuela and Columbia. 



87. Oxypogon guerini, Boiss., Rev. Zool., 1840, p. 7. 



Trochilus parvirostris, Fras., P.Z.S., 184g, p. 18. 



Mellisuga guerinij Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 112. 



Guerin's Helmet-crest, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iii, p. 182, 



rOxypogon de Guérin, Muls., Hist. Nat., Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 t. iii., p. 179. 



Habitat. — Columbia. 



Male. — Head and crest brownish-black with a central tuft 

 of buffy-white feathers, the two longest nearly reaching the 

 middle of the back. A wide band of buffy-white surrounds 

 the back of the throat and head. Rest of upperside and 

 wing-coverts bronzy-green, median rectrices bronzy-green, 

 with white shafts very apparent. This white shaft is con- 

 spicuous over all the rectrices, lateral white margined and 

 tipped with coppery-bronze. Centre of throat metallic green 

 encircled with a tuft of buffy-white feathers, the longest 

 of w^hich reach the centre of breast. Sides of breast, abdomen 

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