DIPHLOGAINA AURORA.

Warszewicz’s Rainbow.

Hehanthea aurora, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1853, p. 61.—Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854,
p. 251.—Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iii. p. 80, note 6 (1860).

Hypochrysia aurora, Reichenb. Aufz. der Colibr. (J. f. O. 1853, Extra-H.), p. 9 (1853).—Id.
Handb. Trochil. p. 6 (1855).

Leadbeatera warszewiczii, Reichenb. Aufz. der Colibr. p. 9 (1853).—Id. Handb. Trochil. p. 6,
Taf. pexc. fig. 4526 (1855).

Celigena warszewiczii, Reichenb. Aufz. der Colibr. p. 23 (1853).

Diphlogena aurora, Gould, Monogr. Trochil. iv. pl. 248.—Id. Intr. Trochil. 8vo, p. 134
(1861).—Scel. & Salv. Nomencel. Av. Neotr. p. 90 (1873).—lid. Proc. Zool. Soc.
1879, p. 630.

Diphlogena iris (pt.), Elhot, Synopsis of the Humming-Birds, p. 69 (1878).

Diphlogena warszewiczi, Tacz. P. Z. 8. 1880, p. 204.—Id. Orn. Pérou, p. 383 (1884).

 

Tue discovery of the male bird of this splendid species, for the loan of which we have been indebted to
Messrs. Salvin and Godman, has afforded a good opportunity of figuring it. The female has already been
figured in the fourth volume of the present work, while the male has remained unknown until quite
recently.

The original specimens of this Humming-bird were obtained by the well-known traveller Warszewicz, in
Bolivia, on the eastern slopes of the Andes, at Illimani and Sorata; but Mr. Buckley does not appear to
have met with it during his expedition to Bolivia. We notice that Dr. Taczanowski has adopted the specific
name of warszewicz? for this bird ; but we believe that the title of aurora was really published first, as it
certainly appeared in April of the year 1853, whereas Prof. Reichenbach did not publish his name until the
end of the same year. The latter appeared in the ‘ Extra-Heft’ of the ‘Journal ftir Ornithologie,’ which
was in all probability not issued to the public before the year 1854.

M. Stolzmann met with the present species in Peru at Cutervo, at an altitude of 9600 to 9700 feet. An
adult male procured by Jelski between Shanyn and Tambillo is in the collection of Dr. Raimondi. According
to M. Stolzmann, it is a bird of very swift movements, only stopping for an instant in shady places.

The Plate represents a male bird of the size of life, the figures being drawn from a beautiful specimen lent
to us by Messrs. Salvin and Godman.

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