It also occurs at the edges or in brushy parts of páramo. The Tyrian metaltail inhabits the interior of several humid open landscapes including secondary forest, cloudforest, mossy treeline scrub, and elfin forest. smaragdinicollis, the east slope of the Peruvian Andes from the department of Amazonas south and east across central Bolivia into Santa Cruz department septentrionalis, the west slope of the Peruvian Andes west of the Marañón River between the departments of Cajamarca and Lima tyrianthina, from southern Táchira south through all three Andean chains of Colombia and eastern and southern Ecuador into Piura department in extreme northern Peru oreopola, the Andes of Venezuela from southwestern Lara south to northern Táchira chloropogon, the Venezuelan Coastal Range between the states of Aragua and Miranda districta, northern Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and northwestern Venezuela's Serranía del Perijá The subspecies of Tyrian metaltail are found thus: smaragdinicollis has a violet tail like districta but the female's throat and upper breast are heavily spotted like those of the nominate. septentrionalis 's tail is purple-blue with green inclusions and the male's underparts are white with bronze-olive spots. quitensis has a longer bill than the nominate and a bronze-olive tail. The female's throat and upper breast have few spots. The male's upperpart feathers have coppery bars near the ends and its underparts are green with pale fringes to the feathers. chloropogon have a coppery red tail the male is otherwise almost completely black and the female has only a few spots on the throat and upper breast. districta has a violet tail and the female's underparts are not spotted. The plumage of the Tyrian metaltail's other subspecies differ from those of the nominate in some significant ways. Its outer tail feathers have whitish tips. Its throat and upper breast are ochre-orange with olive green spots and the lower breast and belly are whitish with green spots. It has an emerald green throat and a slightly forked glistening bronze tail. The male of the nominate subspecies has bottle green upperparts and gray underparts with pale fringes on the feathers. Both sexes of all subspecies have a short, straight, black bill. Tyrian metaltail in NW Ecuador Description
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