1918. CATALOGUE OF BIRDS OF THE AMERICAS CORY. 243 



*Helianthea bonaparti (Boiss.). BONAPARTE'S STAR-FRONTLET. 



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



Trochilus aurogastier , FRAZER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840, p. 16. 



Helianthea bonapartei GOULD, Mon. Trochil., IV, 1854, pi. 236; ELLIOT, Syn. 



Trochil., 1879, p. 295; SALVIN, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 124; 



CHAPMAN, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1917, p. 297 (El Pinon, eastern 



Andes, Colombia). 



Range : Colombia. 

 7: "Colombia." 



*Helianthea eos Gould. GOLDEN STAR-FRONTLET. 



Helianthea eos GOULD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1848, p. 1 1 (Highlands of Colombia 

 and Venezuela); Id., Mon. Trochil., IV, 1855, pi. 237; ELLIOT, Syn. Trochil., 

 1879, p. 72; HARTERT, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 128; SALVIN, Cat. Bds. Brit. 

 Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 125. 



Range: Venezuela. 



5: Venezuela (Merida). 



Helianthea phalerata (Bangs).* SANTA MARTA STAR-FRONTLET. 



Leucuria phalerata* BANGS, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1898, p. 174 (Macotama, 



Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta). 

 Helianthea phalerata BRABOURNE and CHUBB, Bds. S. Am., I, 1912, p. 128. 



Range: Northern Colombia. 



Helianthea volifer (Gould). VIOLET-THROATED STAR-FRONTLET. 



Trochilus volifer GOULD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1846, p. 87 (Bolivia). 

 Helianthea volifer a BONAPARTE, Rev. Zool., 1854, p. 251; GOULD, Mon. Trochil., 



IV, 1855, pi. 239; ELLIOT, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 73; SALVIN, Cat. Bds. Brit. 



Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 126. 



Range: Bolivia. 



*Helianthea osculans Gould. BUFF-TAILED STAR-FRONTLET. 



Helianthea osculans GOULD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, p. 503 (Ecachupata and 

 Huasampilla, Peru); SHARPE in Gould's Mon. Trochil., 1887, pi. 18; SALVIN, 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 127; HARTERT, Das Tierreich, 1900, 

 p. 129. 



Range: Southern Peru. 



2: Peru (Limbain, Carabayo). 



Helianthea phalerata (BANGS): "Forehead, crown and lores very brilliant 

 metallic blue, with, in some lights, green reflections; auriculars, back and wing coverts 

 dark grass green, in some lights quite dusky or cervix and upper back; chin dark 

 grass green with slight metallic reflections; throat metallic violet; breast metallic sea 

 green; abdomen shining grass green; wings purplish brown; feathers of tarsi, upper 

 and under tail coverts and tail, including shafts of feathers, pure white." (Bangs, 

 l.c.). 



b Leucuria new Genus described by Bangs (l.c.) with phalerata as the type. 



