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ERIOCNEMIS D’ORBIGNYI.
D’Orbigny’s Puff-leg.

Trochilus D’Orbignyi, Boure. et Muls. in Ann. Soc. Sci. de Lyon, 1846, p. 315
Phemonoe D’ Orbignyi, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col., Der
driocnemis D’ Orbignyi, Reichenb. Troch. Enum., p. 6, pl. 741. fig. 4697.
Lriocnemys orbignyi, Bonap. in Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 252.
Hylocharis D’ Orbignyi, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 114, Hylocharis, sp. 10.

 

A SINGLE specimen (apparently an adult male) of this bird graces the collection in the Museum of the Jardin
des Plantes, at Paris. This individual was, I believe, brought to Europe by M. D’Orbigny, and was
procured either in Peru or Bolivia. The Eriocnemis D’ Orbignyi differs from all the other species of the
genus I have yet seen, in the possession of a blue frontlet; in size it is very similar to ZZ. vestita, from
which, however, as well as from all the others, it differs in several well-marked specific particulars.

The unique specimen contained in the Paris Museum serves to show how little acquainted we are with
the Humming-Birds of the countries to the southward of Ecuador.
many species as yet unknown, there seems to be but little doubt.

The following is a description of this bird taken from the Paris specimen :—

That both Peru and Bolivia possess

Forehead violet blue; all the upper surface uniform bronzy grass-green; throat and under surface
glittering golden green, inclining to blue on the centre of the throat and chest; tail steel or bluish black.
The figures are of the size of life. The plant is the Howardia Caracasensis.

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