65. THEENETE3. 263 



a, b. Ad. sk. Turrialba, Costa Rica (ArcS). Salvin-Godman Coll . 



c-e. (S;f. 2j ff) Calovevora, Panama (^rc^). Salvin-Godman & 



f>. Ad. sk. Gould CoUs. 



i. Ad. sk. Veragua ( Warszewiez ?). Gould Coll. 



(Figured in Mon. Troch. i. pi. 3.) 



j'-l. Ad. sk. " Central America." Gould Coll. 



4. Eutoxeres condaminii. 



Trochilus condaminii, Bourc. Compt. Ee?id. xxxii. p. 186 (1851); id. 

 Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 96. 



Eutoxeres condaminii, Gould, Mon. Troch. i. pi. 4 (Nov. 1851) ; id. 

 Intr. Troch. p. 37 ; Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 15 ; Cab. 8^ Seine, 

 Mus. Hein. iii. p. 3 ; 31uls. Sf Verr. Class. Troch. p. 13 ; Muls. 

 Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 29, pi. 2 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 

 xxii. p. 199 ; Elliot, Stjn. Troch. p. 3 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 541 ; 

 id. Orn. Per. i. p. 259 ; Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 74. 



Myietina condaminii, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 249. 



Upper surface dark shining golden green, much darker on the crown, 

 a patch of shining blue on either side of the neck ; under surface with 

 the whole of the throat nearly black, each feather with a narrow 

 central buff streak; abdomen blackish, with the pale buff centres 

 much wider ; under tail- coverts blackish, with a central streak and 

 the tip buff ; tail greenish black, the three outer rectrices on either 

 side, except at their bases, fulvous, the central rectrices tipped with 

 fulvous white : maxilla brownish black ; mandible yellowish for the 

 basal two thirds. Total length about 6 inches, wing 3"1, tail 2*4, 

 biU (chord) l-lo. 



The young bird has the feathers of the upper surface edged with 

 buff. 



In this species there appears to be a central line from the bill to 

 the nape destitute of feathers — a character not shown in E. aquila 

 and its allies. 



Bourcier's type, now in the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, was figured by Gould in his Monograph, 



Hab. Eastern slopes of the Andes of Ecuador and Peru. 



a, h. Ad. sk. Quito, Ecuador. Gould Coll. 



c, d. Ad. ; e. Sarayacu, Ecuador {Buckley). Salvin-Godman & 



Juv. sk. Gould Colls. 



f-h. Ad. sk. Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godman & 



Gould Colls. 



65. THRENETES. „ 



Type. 



Threnetes, Gotcld, Mon. Troch. i. pi. 13 (Oct. 1852); id. 



Intr. Troch. p. 40 T. leucurus. 



Dnophera, Heine, J.f. Orn. 1863, p. 175 T. antoniae. 



Range. Central America from Guatemala southwards ; Colombia, 

 Ecuador, Amazons Valley, and Guiana. 



