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1. Androdon ssquatorialis. 



Androdon a?quatorialis, Goidd, Ann. Sf May. N. H. 1863, xii. p. 247 : 



id. Mun. TrocJi. Svppl. pi. i. (Jan. 1881) ; Elliot, Si/n. Troch. p. 4; 



Scl. ^- Salv. P. Z. A'. 1879, p. 528 : EmUs-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. 



p. 79. 

 Poljtmns jequatorialis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 124. 

 Grypus sequatorialis, Mids. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Moucfies, i. p. 32, pi. 1 ; 



id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 199. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining bronzy green ; nape dark 

 blue, crown dark greenish bronze ; a white band across the rump, 

 above and below which are some dark blue feathers : wings purjjle- 

 black, the inner secondaries grey ; under surface and sides of the 

 neck dull greyish white, each feather with a dark lateral margin ; 

 central rectrices greenish grey tipped with dark green, remainder 

 grey, with a broad subapical band of dark green, the tips .white. 

 Total length about 5"3 inches, wing 2'(), tail I'G, bill 1"7. 



Female. Like the male, but without the blue nuchal patch ; the 

 maxilla is less hooked, and both maxilla and mandible less strongly 

 serrated. 



Hah. Colombia and Ecuador. 



a. tS ad. ; I. 5 Ecuador. Gould Coll. 



ad. sk. (Types of the species.) 



c. 5 ad. sk. Ecuador. Gould Coll. 



d. 5 ad. sk". Intac, Ecuador {BucJdey). Salviu-Godman Coll. 

 i\ 5 ad. sk. Remedios, Colombia {Salmon). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



6. HEMISTEPHANIA. 



Type. 



Doryfera, Gould, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 95 {necIUir/er) II. ludoviciie. 



Dorifera, Bj). Comp. Av. i. p. 68. 



Duryphora, Cab. i^- Heine, Mus. iZe/w.iii.p. 77. 



Ilellauthea a. Hemistephania, lieic/i. Avfz. d. Col. 



p. 9 . . : H. ludovicia\ 



Hemistephania, Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 81. 



Haneje. Tropical America, from Costa Eica to Bolivia, Venezuela, 

 Guiana, and the Valley of the Upper Amazons. 



Key to the /S^iecies. 



a. Forehead glittering bluish green or olive-green. 

 «'. Forehead glittering olive-green ; under sur- 

 face greyish greeu. 



a". Smaller ludomcics, p. 39. 



b" . Larger rectirostris, p. 39. 



b'. Forehead glittering bluish green ; under sur- 

 face blackish green verayxiensis, j). 40. 



b. Forehead glittering violet-blue Johanna, p. 40, 



