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KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF SAUCEROTTIA. 



a. Remiges wholly blackish. 

 6. Abdomen not white, 

 c. Tail blue-black or dark steel blue. 

 d. Pileum dark metallic blue. (Colombia.) 



Saucerottia cyanifrons (extralimital).« 

 dd. Pileum metallic green or green and bronze (more or less bright). 

 c. Under tail-coverts dark metallic blue, or dusky grayish glossed Avith l)lue, 

 margined with pale grayish. 

 /. Smaller (wing 50-56.5, tail 29-32.5, culmen 18-20.5); Inll straighter; 

 green of upper parts less bluish. {Saucerottia sophiae.) 

 g. Rump more bronzy, passing into coppery or purplish bronze pos- 

 teriorly. (Costa Rica and Nicaragua.) 



Saucerottia sophiae sophiae (p. 439). 

 gg. Rvimp wholly green. 



h. Under tail-coverts dusky grayish glossed with blue. (North- 

 western Colombia.) 



Saucerottia sophiae saucerrottei (extralimital).& 

 hh. Under tail-coverts dark steel blue centrally. 



i. Coloration darker green (both above and below); wing averaging 

 shorter. (Eastern Colombia.) 



Saucerottia sophiae warscewiczi (extralimital).c 



n T[rorhilus] cyanifrons Bourcier, Rev. Zool., vi, April, 1843, 100 (Ybague, Colom- 

 bia); Bourcier and Mulsant, Ann. Sci. Phys. et Nat. d'Agric, etc., Lyon, vi, 1843, 

 42. — [Thalurania] cyanifrons Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 77. — [Chlorestes, y. Sauce- 

 rottia] cyanifrons Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 8. — Saucerottia cyanifrons 

 Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 255; Gould, Mon. Troch., v, 1866, pi. 323.— 

 SYaucerottea] cyanifrons Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 52 (monogr.).— C/iZo- 

 restes cyanifrons Reichenbach, Troch. Enum., 1855, 4, pi. 701, figs. 4571, 4572. — 

 II[emithylaca] cyanifrons Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 39 ("Veragua"). — 

 Eratopis cyanifrons Heine, Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 191, in text. — Ariana cyanifrons 

 Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 36; Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, 1874, 

 332; iv, 1877, \%b.—[Polytmus] cyanifrons Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 131, no. 1669.— 

 Amazilia cyanifrons Elliot, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 225; Salvin, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 227. — Pyrrhophdena cyaneifrons Berlepsch, Jouni. fiir Orn., 

 1887, 332. 



b T[rochilus] saucerrottei Delattre and Bourcier, Rev. Zool., ix, Sept. (=Nov.), 

 1846, 311 (Cali, n. w. Colombia; coll. Delattre). — H[em.ithylaca] saucerottei Cabanis 

 and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 38, footnote. — Ariana saucerottei Mulsant and Ver- 

 reaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 36; Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, 1874, index; iv, 1877, 185.— 

 Amazilia sauccrottii Elliot, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 225; Salvin, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 223. — Saucerottia saucerottii Eudes-Deslongchamps, Ann. Mus. 

 Caen, i, 1880, 424. — Pyrrhophaena saucerottei Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1887, 332. — 

 Saucerottia typica Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 77; Gould, Introd. Troch., 1861, 

 1C)2.-— Chlorestes typica Reichenbach, Troch. Enum., 1855, 4, pi. 701, figs. 4569, 

 4570. — Erythronota typica Gould, Mon. Troch., v, 1861, pi. 321. — Erythronota sauce- 

 rottei Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, 1874, 331. 



c H[eviithylaca] warscewiczi Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, March, 1860, 38 

 ("Veragua;" coll. Heine Mus.). — Saucerottia warszewiczi Gould, Introd. Troch., 1861, 

 163. — Ariana warszwiczi Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, 1874, 327; 

 iv, 1877, lS^.~-[Polytmxis] warsewiczi Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 131, no. 1671.— J.ma- 

 zilia warszewiczi Elliot, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 22b.— Amazilia warszewiezi 

 Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 222, part. — Amizilis xvarszewiezi Oberholser, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. PhUa., 1899, 208. — Slau^erottea] warscewiczi {typica) Hartert, Daa 

 Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 52. 



