EKRIOCNEMIS MOSQUERA.
Mosquera’s Puff-lee,

Trochilus Mosquera, Boure. et De Latt. Rev. Zool. 1846 p- 306
Hylocharis mosquera, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. j Pp 14 Hylochari )
: “1p. 114, Hylocharis, sp. 5.

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Eriopus mosquera, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Ay., p. 80, Eriopus, sp. 5.

Iv is only of late years that any species ¢ Foueea alee ee . :
ae : a. ) oe y species of this singular genus has been discovered ; only in fact since the
ngher Andes have been visite , Kur , ve : : ae :
hi a ; L oF " ed by uropean collectors, and their attention called to the rich productions
which there abound. For the discover > present bird we are j
Me | New overy of the present bird we are indebted to M. De Lattre, who procured
it at Pasto i New Grenada, and who in conjuncti 7 oa Pe 5 : .
; @ ¢ ee o é Bs ( Aue m conjunction with his friend M. Bourcier named it Mosquera, in
ur of Genera squera, Preside  euRenuhicin iN ee fy ee eae
1onour ¢ ae OSaeta resident of the Republic of New Grenada, a distinguished patron of science
and natural history.
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In its rich golden collouies it differs from every other species of the group to which it belongs, and _parti-
cularly from 17. Luciani and L. cupreientris, but at the same time it is more intimately allied to those species
than to any others.
After examining numerous specimens of both sexes, I find but little difference in their colouring; as
MM. Bourcier and De Lattre state, the female has a somewhat darker tail and the ruffs on the legs less
developed.

General plumage golden green, becoming of a purer green on the wing-coverts, back and rump, and
passing again into luminous golden green on the extremities of the tail-coverts; wings purplish brown ;
four central tail-feathers green; the next on each side olive on the inner web, green on the outer, the next
olive, with a wash of green along the outer web and at the tip; the outer one olive, with a tinge of green at
the tip only ; under surface golden, becoming very bright on the throat and passing into green on the centre
of the abdomen ; under tail-coverts green; thighs thickly clothed with white down; bill blackish brown ;
under mandible lighter than the upper, or inclining to flesh-colour ; feet dark brown.

The figures represent the two sexes of the size of life.

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