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Sporadinus ? maugasi Gould, Mou. Troch., v, 1861, pi. 349; lutrod. Troch., oct. 



ed., 1861, 173. 

 Sporadinus maugaei Elliot, Ibis, 1872, 356 (synon.); Classif. and Syuop. Troch., 



1879, 242. — MuLSANT and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., ii, livr. 1, 



1875, 77; iv, livr. 3, 1878, 198.— Gory, Auk, iii, 1886, 359; ix, 1892, 229, in 



text; Birds West Ind., 1889, 154; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, 107, 132.— 



Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 58.— Bowdish, Auk, xix, 1902, 366. 

 [Sporadinus] niaugxi Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 94. — Cory, 



List Birds West Ind., 1885, 18. 

 C[ynanthus] maugerii J ahdine, Nat. Libr., Hummingbirds, ii, 1833, 174. 

 [Hylocharis] maugaei Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 150, no. 1944. 

 Sporadinus maugei Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1894, 118. 

 Chlorolampis maugseus Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 40. — 



Gundlach, Anal. See. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 225. 

 [Ricordia^ maugei Simon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 19. 



R[icordia] viaugaeus Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 80 (mouogr.). 

 [Ricordia] maugsei Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 114. 

 [Sporadinus (Marsyas)] maugaei Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 



209; Cat. Ois.-Mouch., 1875, 13. 

 {?)[Thaumalias] ourissia Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 79, jxirt. 

 [Coeligena] ourissia Reichenbach, Troch. Enum., 1855, 3, pi. 688, figs. 4519- 



4521. 

 Chlorestes gertrudis Gundlach, Jouru. fiir Orn., 1874, 312 (nomen nudum), 315 



(first characterized). 

 Chlorolamvis gertrudis Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1875, 223. 



CHLOROSTILBON AURICEPS (Gouldj. 



GOLDEN-CROWNED EMERALD. 



Adult male. — Pileuni brilliantly metallic golden green; rest of 

 upper parts, including wing-coverts, duller golden green or bronze- 

 green; tail black, faintly glossed with violet-bluish, the six middle 

 rectrices broadly and abruptly tipped with brownish gray, the 

 fourth (on each side, from middle) with terminal fourth (more or 

 less) of inner web broadly edged with the same; remiges brownish 

 slate or dusky, faintly glossed with violaceous; under parts brilliantly 

 metallic golden green, more strongly golden posteriorly, the chin 

 and throat purer (less yellowish) green; femoral tufts white; maxilla 

 dull black, more brownish basally; mandible pale brownish (pinkish 

 of flesh colored in life?), with terminal third (more or less) dusky; 

 iris dark brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 88-93.5 (91); wing, 

 43-44 (43.4); tail, 38.5-45 (42.5); middle rectrices, 14-15 (14.6); 

 culmen, 13-13.5(13.2)." 



Adult female. — Above bright metallic green or bronze-green; 

 middle rectrices metallic bluish green to bronze-green, the second, 

 third, and fourth rectrices bluish green for basal two-thirds ( approxi- 

 mately), black subterminally, tipped with brownish gray, the outer- 

 most (fifth) pair with a broader brownish gray tip and a large 

 median space of light brownish gray between the black subterminal 



« Four specimens. 



