Genus Diphlogæna Gould

Generic characters.

Male.— Bill straight and longer than the head; wings very long and pointed; tail lengthened and deeply forked; tarsi short and partially clothed; feet small; hind toe short; nails moderately long and straight; crown decorated with several luminous colours.

Female.—Unknown.

• 272.

  Diphlogæna Iris (Gould)

  Habitat: Andes of Bolivia, between Sorata and Illinani. The locality given me by M. Warszewicz is the province of Huancabamba au Cordilera Solaio, 9000 feet.

  Plate 247 Diphogena Iris Rainbow
• 273.

  Diphlogæna Aurora (Gould)

  Habitat: Peru; locality the same as D. Iris.

  Plate 248 Diphlogæna Aurora Bolivian Rainbow

  Dr. Reichenbach’s specific name of Warszewiczi must, I believe, give place to that of Diphlogena Aurora, unless his name was proposed prior to the 12th of April, 1853, when I read my paper on this and other new species before the meeting of the Zoological Society of London, as reported in the ‘Atheneum’ of the 16th of the same month.

  • Hypochrysia Aurora, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p. 9.
  • Coeligena Warszewiczi, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p. 23.
  • Coeligena Warszewiczii, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pl. 690. fig. 4526.

Supplemental

• Diphlogæna hesperus Ecuadorian Rainbow
• Diphlogæna aurora Warszewicz’s Rainbow