1918. CATALOGUE OF BIRDS or THE AMERICAS CORY. 257 



*Vestipedes aureliae aureliae (Bourcier and Mulsani). AURELIA'S 

 PUFF-LEG. 



Trochilus aureliae BOURCIER and MULSANT, Ann. Soc. Agric. Lyon, IX, 1846, 

 P- 315. pl- 10 (Bogota). 



Eriocnemis aureliae GOULD, Mon. Trochil., 1855, IV, pl. 283; ELLIOT, Syn. Troch., 

 1879, p. 190; SALVIN, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 370, part. 



Vestipedes aureliae aureliae CHAPMAN, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1917, 

 p. 302 (Barro Blanco; LaCandela; San Agustin; El Roble; El Pifion, Col- 

 ombia). 



Range: Eastern Colombia (from eastern slope of central Andes). 

 8: "Colombia." 



Vestipedes aureliae caucensis" Simon. SIMON'S PUFF-LEG. 



Eriocnemis aureliae caucensis SIMON, Rev. Franc. d'Orn., No. 28, August, 1911, 

 p. 130 (San Antonio, 1900 met., western Andes, Colombia); CHAPMAN, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1917, p. 302, crit. (San Antonio; Cerro Munchi- 

 que; Gallera; Andes west of Popayan; Miraflores; Salento, western Colombia). 



Range: Western Colombia (from western slope of the central 

 Andes). 



*Vestipedes assimilis (Elliot). BROWN-BOOTED PUFF-LEG. 



Eriocnemis assimilis ELLIOT, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, I, 1876, p. 227 ("Apollo 

 and Tilotilo," Bolivia); Id., Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 189; SALVIN, Cat. Bds. 

 Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 371. 



Eriocnemis affinis TACZANOWSKI, Orn. Perou, I, 1884, p. 396. 



Range: Bolivia and Peru, 

 i : "Bolivia." 



* Vestipedes russata (Gould). BUFF PUFF-LEG. 



Eriocnemis russata GOULD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, p. 505 (Ecuador); 

 SALVIN, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 370; HARTERT, Nov. Zool., II, 

 1895, p. 69; Id., Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 147. 



Range: Eastern Ecuador. 

 i: "Ecuador." 



*Vestipedes lugens (Gould}. HOARY PUFF-LEG. 



Eriopus lugens GOULD, Contr. Orn., 1851, p. 140 (Quito). 



Eriocnemis lugens GOULD, Mon. Trochil., IV, 1854, pl. 282 ; ELLIOT, Syn. Trochil., 

 1879, p. 190; SALVIN, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 371; (Baisa, 

 Ecuador); E. & C. HARTERT, Nov. Zool., I, 1894, p. 60 (Rio Patassa, 

 east of Andes, Ecuador). 



Eriocnemis squamata GOULD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, p. 311 (Ecuador). 6 



Vestipedes aureliae caucensis SIMON: Similar to V. a. aureliae, but abdomen 

 more extensively white and anterior under parts margined with whitish instead of 

 buffy; tibial tuft white (without tinge of tawny). 



b Cf. Hartert, Nov. Zool., I, 1894, p. 60, in text. 



