3. AtTGASTES. 35 



of the bill, glittering green like the IhidcUe of the throat; the 

 lateral cervical patches deeper violet-blue ; the white pectoral band 

 extends across the chest ; the lower back and central rectrices are 

 dark grass-green, with only a slight bronzy tint. 



Female ? Whole crown dark grass-green like the back ; middle of 

 the throat white, joining the white pectoral band ; violet lateral 

 cervical patches like the male. 



Specimens before me show a transition between white-tliroated 

 iadividuals (*S'. alboi/ularis, Gould) and those with glittering green 

 throats (S. 2JCi'sonatiis, Gould), the former being the young males or 

 the females of the latter. The name S. albor/ularis has several years' 

 priority over S. personatus. 



Hah. Ecuador. 



a. 2 ad. sk. West side of Pichiucha, alt. Gould Ooll. (Type of 



GOOO ft., Ecuador {Jameson). S.aIltof/ulai-is,Gonld.) 



b. (S ad. ; c. J Pallatanga, Ecuador {Fraser}. Gould Coll. 

 ad. sk. 



d. (S juv. sk. Quito, Ecuador. Goidd Coll. 



e. cJ ad.; /. (S Baisa, Ecuador {Bucklei/). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 

 juv. sk. 



ff, h. J ad. sk. Ecuador. Gould Coll. (Types 



of S.personatits, Gould.) 

 i,j. (S ad. ; /.-. Ecuador. Salvin-Godmau & 



S juv.sk. • Gould Colls. 



/. (S ad. sk. Ecuador {Buckley). Gould Coll. 



3. AUGASTES. 



Augastes, Gould, Mon. Troch. iv. sub pi. 221 (June Type. 



1849) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 123 A. superbus. 



lihamphomiciou 6. Lamprurus, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. 



p. 12 (March] 854). 



llanfje. South-eastern Brazil. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tail glittering green ; abdomen aud lateral 



cervical patches dark blue superbus, p. 3o. 



b. Tail glittering golden bronze ; abdomen golden 



green ; no lateral cervical patches lumachellus, p. 36. 



1. Augastes superbus. 



Trochilus superbus, lleill. Euc. Mcth. p. .561 ; Less. Suppl. Ois.- 



Mouches, p. 97 ; id. Ind. Gea. Troch. p. xlii. 

 Trochilus scutatus, Katt. in Temm. PI. Col. 299. f. 3. 

 Ornismva nattereri, Less, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, pp. xxxvii, 75, 



pi. 16. 

 Hylocharis superba, Graij, Gen. B. i. p. 114 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 151. 

 Augastes scutatus, Gould, Mon. Troch. iv. pi. 221 (June 1849) ; 



id. Litr. Troch. p. 123 ; 3fuh. ^- Vcrr. Class. Troch. p. 70. 

 Augastes superbus, Bj}. Consp. Av. i. p. 84; id. Rev. Zool, 1854, p. 263 ; 



Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 13 ; Cab. lV Heine, Mits. Hein. iii. p. 45 ; 



Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 305 ; Heine, J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 196 ; Reink 



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