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*Psalidoprymna gouldii gracilis (Gould).* GRACEFUL TRAIN-BEARER. 



Trochilus (Lesbia) gracilis GotrLD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1846, p. 86 ("Peru" = 



Ecuador). 

 Lesbia gouldi gracilis BERLEPSCH and HARTERT, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1884, 



P- 305 (Cechce, western Ecuador); HARTERT (E. & CL), Nov. Zool., I, 1894. 



p. 48. 

 Psalidoprymna gouldi gracilis HARTERT, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 183; OBER- 



HOLSER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, p. 337 (Papallacta; Pichincha; 



Corazon, Ecuador). 



Range: Ecuador. 

 i: "Peru"? 



Psalidoprymna gouldii chlorura b (Gould). PERUVIAN TRAIN-BEARER. 



Lesbia chlorura GOULD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, p. 504 (Peru?). 

 Psalidoprymna chlorura HARTERT, Nov. Zool., VI, 1899, p. 75, in text. 

 Psalidoprymna gouldi chlorura HARTERT, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 183. 



Range: Northern Peru. 



Genus ZODALIA Mulsant & Verreaux. 



Zodalia Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, III, 1876-77, p. 281 

 (Type Lesbia ortoni Lawrence). 



Zodalia glyceria Gould. PURPLE-TAILED COMET. 



Cometes ? glyceria GOULD, Mon. Trochil., Ill, 1858, pi. 176 (Popayan). 

 Cometes mossiae (nom. nud.) GOULD, Rept. Brit. Assn., 1853, p. 68. 

 Zodalia glyceria ELLIOT, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 150; SALVIN, Cat. Bds. Brit. 

 Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 141; HARTERT, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 183. 



Range: Colombia. 



Zodalia ortoni (Lawr.). ORTON'S COMET. 



Lesbia ortoni LAWRENCE, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. Y., IX, 1870, p. 269 (Quito 



Valley). 

 Zodalia ortoni ELLIOT, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 149; GOULD, Mon. Trochil., Suppl. 



1880, pi. 38; HARTERT, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 184. 



Range : Ecuador. 



Psalidoprymna gouldii gracilis (GouLD) : Differs from P. g. gouldii in being 

 smaller and under tail coverts less green, being dull buff, with green spot in the 

 middle. 



b Psalidoprymna gouldii chlorura (GOULD) : Differs from P. g. gracilis in having 

 the bill and tail somewhat longer and general plumage more golden. Wing, 2 

 inches; bill, -fg inch (original measurements given by Gould, I.e.). 



NOTE. I have not seen specimens of this bird, C. B. C. 



