ER10CNEMIS DYBOWSKII, Tac%.
Dybowski’s Puff-leg.
Enocnemis ch/boioskii, Tacz. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1 8 8 2 , p. 39.
T h i s s p e c ie s -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 o f Dr. Taczanowski’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. [R B S ]
