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*Thalurania eriphile eriphile a (Lesson). LESSON'S WOOD NYMPH. 



Ornismya eriphile LESSON, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, Suppl., 1832, p. 148, pi. 25 



("Bresil"). 

 Thalurania eriphile GOULD, Mon. Trochil., II, 1858, pi. 108; ELLIOT, Syn. 



Trochil., 1879, p. 101 ; SALVIN, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 80; CHUBB, 



Ibis, 1910, p. 269. 

 Thalurania eriphile eriphile HELLMAYR, Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, p. 76. 



Range: Southeast Brazil and Paraguay. 



ii : Brazil (Rio das Velhas, Minas Geraes 9; Lagoa Santa i; Sao 

 Marcello, Rio Preto, Bahia i). 



Thalurania eriphile baeri b Hellmayr. BAER'S WOOD NYMPH. 



Thalurania eriphile baeri HELLMAYR, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club., XXI, 1907, p. 27 



(Goyez); Id., Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, pp. 75-77. 

 Thalurania baeri SIMON, Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat., 1912, No. 8, p. 501 (Cambara, 



Matto Grosso). 



Range: Central Brazil and Bolivia. 



Thalurania balzani Simon. BOLIVIAN WOOD NYMPH. 



Thalurania balzani SIMON, Nov. Zool., Ill, 1896, p. 259 (Yungas, Bolivia); 

 HARTERT, Ibis, 1897, p. 432, in text; HELLMAYR, Nov. Zool., XIV, 1907, 

 p. 396; Id., XV, 1908, p. 77; Id., XVII, 1910, p. 376. 



Range : Eastern Bolivia, west Brazil (east to Tapajos River, region) . 



*Thalurania watertoni (Bourder). WATERTON'S WOOD NYMPH. 



Trochilus watertoni BOURCIER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, p. 44 ("Mibiri 



Creek, a 40 mille de la riviere Essiquibo"). 

 Thalurania watertoni GOULD, Mon. Trochil., II, 1856, pi. 100; ELLIOT, Syn. 



Trochil., 1879, p. 101; SALVIN, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 78. 



Range: Eastern Brazil. 

 i: "Brazil." 



Genus EUPHERUSA Gould. 



Eupherusa Gould, Mon. Trochil., XIV, 1857, pi. 324 (Type Ornismya eximia 

 Delattre). 



*Eupherusa eximia eximia (Delattre). STRIPE-TAILED HUMMINGBIRD. 

 Ornismya eximia DELATTRE, Echo du monde Savant, 1843, p. 1069 (Coban, 

 Guatemala). 



Thalurania, eriphile eriphile LESSON: Under tail coverts bluish black or dark 

 bronze green, sometimes narrowly tinged with whitish; front of crown glittering 

 green; vertex of crown dark bronze green. 



b Thalurania eriphile baeri HELLMAYR: Under tail coverts pure white, sometimes 

 smaller ones with small marks of bluish black or dark bronze green; crown like in 

 T. e. eriphile (LESSON). 



c Thalurania balzani SIMON: Whole crown (including forehead) dark dull bronze 

 green, like the back; under tail coverts like in T. e. baeri HELLMAYR. 



