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with whitish edges in the females. In typical erythronotos the under tail-coverst 

 are glossy bronze-brown and rufescent, though there is one skin of the same 

 preparation as the supposed Trinidad skins in the Tring Museum which has them of 

 the same colour as in the females from Siiapure and Ciudad Bolivar. The underside 

 oi cauvensis is of a clearer and somewhat brighter and more golden-green. Perhaps 

 also the tail-feathers are a shade darker and the bills as a rule slightly shorter, but 

 our series is too small to confirm these characters. 



Suapure, Caura R. : $ 10. v. 1900. '' Iris dark grey ; bill, maxilla and tip of 

 mandible black, rest flesh-colour ; feet black " (S. M. Klages). 



Mountains west of Suapure : ¥ 9. v. 1900 (S. M. Klages). 



Ciudad Bolivar : ? 11. vi. '98 (S. M. Klages). 



285. Hylocharis sapphirina (Gm.). 



Trochihis sapphirhms Gm., Syst. Not. 1 (178H) p. 496 (ex Buffi.— loc. ign.*). 



Nericagua : S S ad. 31. iii.. 1, 3, 4, 18. iv., 6 S semi-ad. 4, 6. iv., 6 S juv. 7. iv., 

 ? ¥ ad. 5, 7, 12, 22. iv., ¥ juv. 3. iv. '99. 



" Iris seal ; feet blackish slate ; bill, tip black, basal three-fciurths purplisli 

 flesh-colour." 



(Nos. 12348, 1237.5, 12394, 12395, 12411, 12412, 12413, 12428 \'>\2\), 12442, 

 12469, 12470, 12471, 12498, 12.520, 12525 Cherrie coll.) 



Suapure : ? juv. 10. iii. '99 (Klages). 



286. Hylocharis cyanus viridiventris Berl. 



\Troclulus cijanus VieiU., Nouv. Diet. XXIII. (1818) p. 4-26 (tvp. ex Bresil— Delalande— coll. Baron 



Laugier).] 

 Hylocharis cyanea viridiventris Berl., Ibis 1880 p. 113 (Brit. Guiana). 



Nericagua : ? ? 6, 8, 12. iv. '99. 



(Nos. 12440, 12481, 12500 Cherrie coll.) 



Suapure : cJ J ad. 2, 11, 12. i. 1900 ; 15. v., 29. xii., ? ? 15, 17. v. '99 (Klages). 



La Pricion : cjcj 16, 17. ii. 1901 (Audrd). 



287. Chlorestes coeruleus (Vieill.). 



Trochilus coeruleus Yieill., Nouv. Did. VII. (1817) p. 'Ml (typ. ex Cayenne). 



Altagracia :"(?(?" (ad.) 6 (bis), 7 (bis), 17. i., S <S juv. 30. xi. '97, 6 (ter), 7 (Ins) 

 11 (bis), ? ¥ 4, 11, 12. i. '98. 



Perico : "(?"juv. 22. xi. '98. 



Maipures : 3 t? ad. 6, 7 (bis), 8, 12, 21 (ter), 28. xii. '98, "J " jnv. 30. i., ¥ ¥ ad. 

 7, 9. i. '99. 



Nericagua : S 12. iv., c? juv. 1. v., ¥ ¥ 7. iv., 25, 27. iii. "99. 



Mnnduapo : d <S &d. 13, 18. ii. '99. 



" Iris dark seal ; feet dusky ; bill black, basal lour-lifths mandible pale flesh." 



(Nos. 8947, 9536, 95.57, 9559, 9560, 9561, 9579, 9580, 9581, 9582, 9600, 9637, 

 9638,9039, 9640, 11315, 11303, 11364, 11382, 11383, 11393, 11432, 11560, 11561, 

 11562, 11626, 11692, 11705, 11771, 11805, 11807, 11942, 12014, 12270, 12371, 

 12473, 12494 Cherrie coll.) 



Suapure : January, May (Klages). 



La Pricion : January, February, December (Andre). 



* We substitute Cayenne. 



