35. ZODALIA. 14^1 



All Bolivian males of this form that I have seen differ from 

 typical C. mocoa in the points indicated above ; but see Mr. Elliot's 

 notes on this bird. 



a, b. cS ad. ; c, cJ Tilotilo, Yungas, Bolivia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



juv. sk. {Bucklei/). 



d. (S ad. sk. Liria, Yungas, Bolivia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Biicklei/). 



e-i. S ad. ; j. <S Bolivia (Bucklei/). Gould Coll. (Types 



juv. ; k. $ ad. sk. of C. boliviana.) 



I. (S ad. St. BoUvia. Bridges [C.]. 



35. ZODALIA. ^^ ^ 



Zodalia, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mauches, iii. p. 281 (1876) . . Z. ortoni. 



Ranrje. Southern Colombia, Ecuador. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Upper surface shining green glyceria, p. 141. 



b. Upper surface shining purple ortoni, p. 142. 



1. Zodalia glyceria. 



Cometes mossia, Gould, Rep. Brit. Assoc. 18o3, p. 68 ; Athenmum, 



185.3, p. 1166. 

 Lesbia glyceria, Bp. Rev. Zool. 18o4, p. 2-52. 

 Cometes? glyceria, Gould, Mon. Troch. iii. pi. 176 (May 1858) ; id. 



Intr. Troch. p. 104 ; llnls. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii . p. 225. 

 Sparganura mossai, Cab. S,- Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 52. 

 Zodalia glyceria, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Motiches, iii. p. 283 ; Elliot, 



Syn. Troch. p. 150. 

 Sparganura glyceria, Gould, Suppl, Troch. pi. 38 (Aug. 1880). 



Young malel Upper surface dark shining bluish green, the 

 feathers of the crown edged with rusty red (immaturity ?) ; under 

 surface dusky buff, the feathers of the flanks and sides of the neck 

 with bluish discal spots, throat glittering brassy olive-green ; tail 

 dark shining purple, the lateral rectrices for three fourths of their 

 outer webs and the shaft adjoining dusky white, the shaft of the 

 next feather also dusky white ; bill black. Total length about 

 5'7 inches, wing 2-5 ; tail, central rectrices 1-25, lateral 3-2 ; 

 bUl 3-7. 



Female unknown. 



Hah. Colombia (Popayan). 



This species was never characterized by Gould under the name 

 C. mossia, either in the ' Athenaeum ' or Brit. Assoc. Eep. It must 

 therefore stand as C. glyceria, the name given to it by Bonaparte 

 and adopted by Gould in the ' Monograph of Trochilidas.' 



a. cJ juv. sk. Popayan, Colombia (3Iossa). Gould Coll. (Type 



of species.) 



