170 TROCHILI. 



Adelomvia raelanog^nys, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 145, 1800, pp. 70, 94 ; 



id. Cat. Am. B. p. 303; Jameson ^- Fraser, Ibis, 1859, p. 400 ; 



Mills. ^- Verr. Class. Troch. p. 71 ; Mills. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, 



iii. p. 131 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 220; Elliot, Syn. 



Troch. p. 182 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 238, 1880, p. 207 ; id. Orn. 



Per. i. p. 361 ; JJerl. J.f. Orn. 1884, p. 311, 1887, p. 325. 

 Adelomvia raaculata, Gould, Mon. Troch. hi. pi. 199 (Sept. 1861) ; 



id. Iritr. Troch. p. 113; Muls. S^ Verr. Class. Troch. p. 71 ; Gould, 



P. Z. S. 1870, p. 803; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 303; Tacz. P. Z. S. 



1882, p. 37. 

 Adelisca maculata, Heine, J.f- Orn. 1863, p. 214. 

 Trocliilus maculata, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 142. 

 Adeloun-ia clilorospila, Gould, Ajin. ^- Mag. N. H. 1872, x. p. 452 ; 



WliiUly, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 189; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iii. 



p. 128; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 220 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch. 



p. 182; Tacz. Orn. Per. i. p 360; Skarpe in Gould's Suppl. Troch. 



(April 1885). 

 Adelomyia melanogenys maculata, Berl. Sf Tacz. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 305, 



1885, p. 104. 



Adult male. Upper surface golden grass-green, darker on the 

 crown ; a postocular white stripe ; ear-coverts blackish brown ; 

 under surface pale buff, darker on the flanks ; each feather of the 

 throat with a brown discal spot, this colour changing in most cases 

 into bronzy green in certain lights ; flank-feathers with obscure 

 green discs ; tail bronzy brown, paler at the base, lateral rectrices 

 tipped with buff: bill black, base of mandible and feet yellow. 

 Total length about 3-5 inches, wing 2-25, tail 1-45, bill 0-7. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. 



The bird from Ecuador is said to be larger and to have a 

 longer bill than the typical Colombian bird (the actual type from 

 the Liverpool Museum being before me) ; but I am unable to 

 distinguish them with certainty. A. chlorospila, described from a 

 Peruvian specimen, has the spots of the throat more distinctly green 

 than others from the same locality which I cannot separate from 

 A. melanogenys. As these spots nearlj- always have some tint of 

 green in certain lights, I am not disposed to recognize A. clilorospila 

 as distinct. 



Hah. Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. 



a. Ad. sk. Alto, Colombia (C W. Wyatt). Sal vin-Godman Coll. 



b-ff. Ad. sk. Colombia (Bogota make). Salvin-Godman, 



Gould, & Sclater 

 Colls. 



h, i. Ad. sk. Quito, Ecuador. Gould CoU. 



(Probable types of A. maculata, Gould.) 



j. Ad. sk. Intac, Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godman CoU. 



k, I. Ad. sk. Monji, Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



m-o. Ad. sk. Ulva, Ecuador (Buckley). Gould Coll. 



p, q. Ad. sk. Napo, Ecuador. Gould Coll. 



r, s. Ad. sk. Ecuador (Fraser). Gould & Sclater 



Colls. 



/. S ad. sk. Tambillo, Peru {J. Stohmann^. Gould Coll. 



