1918. CATALOGUE OF BIRDS OF THE AMERICAS CORY. 253 



*Boissonneaua flavescens flavescens (Loddiges). YELLOW-FRONTED 

 CORONET. 



Trochilus flavescens LODDIGES, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1832, p. 7 (Popayan). 



Ornismya paradisea BOISSONNEAU, Rev. Zool., 1840, p. 6 (Bogota). 



Panoplites flavescens GOULD, Mon. Trochil., II, 1854, pi. in; ELLIOT, Syn. 

 Trochil., 1879, P- 54! SALVIN, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 344. 



Boissonneaua flavescens HARTERT, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 142. 



Boissonneau flavescens flavescens HELLMAYR, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 191 1, p. 1 185 

 (Tatama Mountain, 8000 ft.) ; CHAPMAN, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXVI, 1917, 

 p. 300, crit. (Cocal; La Florida; Laguneta; El Roble; El Pinon, etc., Colom- 

 bia). 



Range: Andes of Colombia and Western Venezuela. 

 9: Venezuela (near Merida) 3; "Colombia" 6. 



*Boissonneaua flavescens tinochlora 3 Oberholser. WESTERN YELLOW- 

 FRONTED CORONET. 



Boissonneaua flavescens tinochlora OBERHOLSER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 

 1902, p. 329 (west side of Corazon, Ecuador). 



Range: Ecuador. 



2: Ecuador (Gualea i, "Ecuador" i). 



Genus VESTIPEDES Lesson.* 



Vestipedes Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, Ser. 2, VIII, 1843, p. 756 (Type 



Ornismya vestita). 

 Eriocnemis Reichenbach, Syst. Av. Aufz. d. Col., 1849, pi. XL (Type 0. vestita 



Lesson). 



*Vestipedes luciani (Bourcier). BOQUET'S PUFF-LEG. 



Trochilus luciani BOURCIER, Ann. Soc. Phys. & Nat. Lyon, VII, 1847, p. 324 



(Guaca). 

 Eriocnemis luciani GOULD, Mon. Trochil., IV, 1853, pi. 273; ELLIOT, Syn. 



Trochil., 1879, p. 192; SALVIN, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 366 



(Intac; Pichincha; Quito; San Rafael, Ecuador); HARTERT and HARTERT, 



Nov. Zool., I, 1894, p. 60 (near Cuenta, Ecuador). 

 Vestipedes luciani OBERHOLSER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, p. 329 



(Mojanda; Padregal; Corazon; Pichincha, etc., Ecuador). 



Range: Ecuador. 

 2: "Ecuador." 



Boissonneaua flavescens tinochlora OBERHOLSER: Differs from B. f. flavescens 

 in the much broader green tips of the tail feathers, particularly on the inner webs of 

 the two outer pairs; wing quills darker and more purplish; crissum and buffy portions 

 of the tail darker. Specimens recorded from Corazon, Pichincha, and Canzacota, 

 western Ecuador (Oberholser, I.e.). 



b Cf. Richmond, Auk, 1902, p. 83. 



