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Metallura hedvigae TACZANOWSKI, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 139; Id., Orn. 

 Perou, I, 1884, p. 352. 



Range: Andes of central Peru. 



*Metallura rubriginosa (Cory)* BALSAS COPPER-TAIL. 



Laticauda rubriginosa CORY, Field Mus. Pub., No. 167, Orn. Ser. I, No. 7, 1913, 

 p. 287 (Mountains east of Balsas, Peru; alt. 10,000 ft.). 



Range: Peru. 



i : Peru (Mts. east of Balsas, the type). 



Metallura williami Delatt. and Bourcier. PURPLE-TAIL. 



Metallura williami DELATTRE and BOURCIER, Rev. Zool., 1846, p. 308 (Popayan) ; 

 GOULD, Mon. Trochil., Ill, 1859, pi. 193; ELLIOT, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 165; 

 SALVIN, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 1900, p. 155; CHAPMAN, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., 

 XXXVI, 1917, p. 305 (Valle de las Pappas; Santa Isabel, Colombia). 



Range: Southern Colombia. 



Metallura baroni b Salwn. BARON'S COPPER-TAIL. 



Metallura baroni SALVIN, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 1, 1893, p. 49 (Cuenca) ; HARTERT 

 (E. & Cl.) Nov. Zool., I, 1894, p. 49, pi. IV, Figs. 3-4. 



Range: Southern Ecuador. 

 Metallura theresiae Simon* SIMON'S COPPER-TAIL. 



Metallura theresiae SIMON, Nov. Zool., IX, 1902, p. 181 (Pataz). 

 Range: Peru. 



Metallura rubriginosa (CORY): Female (the type and only known specimen). 

 Upper parts, crown, and sides of head rich bronzy red; a small buffy white spot in 

 front of and behind the eye. Throat buff, the feathers tipped with spots of metallic 

 green; feathers of the breast and belly dull bronzy red (tinged with olive green in 

 some lights), but having a mottled appearance as all the feathers are buffy white at 

 the bases; sides of body strongly washed with bronzy red; under tail coverts rufous 

 banded with black; wings purplish brown, the bend of the wing edged with rufous; 

 under surface of rectrices (except the outer web of outer feather) metallic green, 

 outer web of outer tail feather blackish becoming pale at the tip; upper surface of 

 rectrices steel blue when held in the light, the outer feather tipped with buff on the 

 outer web. Bill and feet black. Total length (skin), 97 mm.; wing, 60; tail, 30; 

 bill, 14. 



b Metallura baroni SALVIN: (male). Above dark metallic olive, with a green 

 tint; wings, deep purple brown; small coverts on carpo metacarpal joint pale rufous; 

 tail like the back if viewed from above, shining violet purple if viewed from behind; 

 under surface of tail metallic green; under parts of body like back, but feathers of 

 lower flanks and under tail coverts bordered with dark buff; whole throat and chin 

 bright violet purple. Wing, 53 to 55; tail, about 37; bill, about 13 mm. 



c Metallura theresiae SIMON: Upper parts, including head, neck, and front of 

 back, dull wine red, the lower part of back reddish (with a grayish green lustre when 

 viewed from an opposite direction); under parts of body with the front portion to 

 middle breast brilliant red, shaded with orange with a band on the throat of golden 

 yellow or topaz commencing at the base of the bill and terminating in a point on the 

 breast; lower breast and abdomen brownish, tinged more or less with bronze and the 

 feathers with buffy edges; wings, violet black with outer edges of reddish buff. 

 Tail, 38; bill, 12.5 mm. 



