ERIOCNEMIS DYBOWSKII, Tez.

Dybowski’s Puff-leg.

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

 

Tuts 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. Taczanowsk1’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.

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