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Calliperidia Angelae, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. De iz

Calliphlox Angelae, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p. 10.

Ornithomyia angela, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 251.
Habitat. Buenos Ayres and Tucuman.

A single specimen of a Humming-Bird, somewhat allied to the last genus, was killed by M. Warszewicz on the
sides of the Volcano of Chiriqui. It possesses so many remarkable characters that I was obliged, without a
moment’s hesitation, to assign to it a new generic appellation, that of Oreopyra. Unfortunately the specimen was

so much injured by shot that I had much difficulty in giving a correct delineation of it.

Genus Oreopryra, Gould.
(COpos, mons, et rip, ignis.).
Generic characters.
Male.— Bill longer than the head, straight, or very slightly arched ; wings long and rigid; tail moderately lone

and forked ; ¢arsi clothed ; Jeet rather small ; gorget snow-white.

294. OREopyRA LEucasPis, Gould . ; ; : : : : : 4 ; ; . Vol. IV. Pl. 264.
Habitat. Volcano of Chiriqui, 9000 to 10,000 feet (Warszewicz).

So different are the three birds found on the island of Juan Fernandez, that it would not involve a great stretch
of impropriety to assign to each of them a separate generic appellation ; I shall, however, retain them all under the
name of Hustephanus. On an examination of the plates of the three species, it will be seen how remarkably they
differ in size, colour, and markings. I consider it a very singular fact connected with the family of Humming-
Birds, that three species should be found on an island so distant from the mainland, and that two of them should

be confined to this isolated spot, surrounded as it is by the wide waters of the Pacific Ocean.

Genus Eusreruanus, Reichenb.

295. EKUSTEPHANUS GALERITUS . : ; : : : ‘ d : ; ‘ : Vol. IV. Pl. 265.
Sephanoides Kingi, Gray, List of Gen. of Birds, p. 19.
_ Eustephanus galeritus, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p. 14; Id. Troch. Enum. p. 11; Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein.
Theil iii. p. 76.
Habitat. Chile and Juan Fernandez.
“Found about Valparaiso in abundance in the months of August, September, and October.” — Bridges in Proc.
of Zool. Soc. part xi. p. 115.

296. EusTEPHANUS STOKESI : j ‘ ; Vol. IV. Pl. 266.

Thaumaste Stokesii, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p-14; Id. Troch. Enum. p. 12.
Eustephanus Stokesi, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 75.

Habitat. Juan Fernandez.

297. EUsTEPHANUS FERNANDENSIS : : : : i : : : ; ‘ Vol. IV. Pl. 267.
Eustephanus lernandensis, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p. 14; Id. Troch. Enum. p. 11; Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein.
Theil iii. p. 76.

Habitat. Juan Fernandez.

The

Genus Puxo.tama, Reichenb.,

is composed of two Andean species, distinguished by their sombre colouring; for although both have a luminous
gular patch, and one of them a glittering mark on the centre of the crown, the brilliancy of these markings is not

So great as usual, and their tails are coloured unlike those of any other group.

298. PHa&OLEMA RUBINOIDES j ‘ ‘ : 3 : : A Vol. IV. Pl. 268.

Heliodoxa rubinoides, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p. 6, pl. 743. figs. 4704-5.
Phaeolaema granadensis, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil ll. p. 30, note.

Habitat. New Granada. Frequently sent to Europe from Bogota.