270 TROCHILI. 



c. Juv. sk. Ecua,doT (Fr as er). Sclater Coll. 



d-f. J ad. ; (f-p. Juv. sk. Ecuador. Salvin-Godman & 



Gould CoUs. 



4. Phaethornis superciliosus. 



Polvtmus cayennensis longicaudus, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 686, pi. 35. 



f.' 5. 

 rrocbilus superciliosus, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 189 ; And. SfVieill. Ois. 



Dor. i. p. 4:2, pi. 17; Vieill. N. Diet, d' Rid. N. vii. p. 347; id. 



Enc. Meth. p. 549 ; Less. Hist. Nat. Col. p. 35, pi. 6 ; id. Ltd. Gen. 



Troch. p. xiv. 

 Colibri a longe queue de Cayenne, D'Auh. PI. Enl. 600. f. 3. 

 Supercilious Humming Bird, Lath. Gen. 8yn. i. (2) p. 747. 

 Trochilus malaris, iVb;-(??w. in Ermai^s Raise, p. 2 (1835). 

 Phaethornis superciliosus, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 67 ; id. Eeu. Zool. 1854, 



p. 249; Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 14; Gould, Mon. Troch. i. pi. 17 



(Sept. 1858) ; Scdv. ^ Elliot, Ibis, 1873, p. 4 ; Whitely, P. Z. S. 



1873, p. 188 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 64, iv. p. 139 ; 



id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 200; Elliot, Ibis, 1877, p. 141 ; 



id. Si/n. Troch. p. 14 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 34 ; Salu. Ibis, 1885, 



p. 431. 

 Phaethornis malaris, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 67 ; id. Rev. Zool. 1854, 



p. 249; Reich. Attfz. d. Col. p. 14; Cab. ^' Heine, Mas. Hein. iii. 



p. 9 ; Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 41 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 284 ; Heine, 



J. f. 0/72. 1863, p. 176; Muls. ^- Verr. Class. Troch. p. 18; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 121 ; Scl. ^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 753, 979, 1873, 



p. 286; Peh. Orn. Bras. p. 26; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 541. 

 Phaetornis aifinis, Pelz. Sitz. math.-nat. CI. Ak. Wiss. Wien, xx. 



p. 157 (18o6j. 

 Phaethornis consobrinus, " Botirc," Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 14 ; 



Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 42. 

 Phaethornis moorei, Latvr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. Yi. p. 258; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1860, p. 296 ; id. Cat. Am. B. p. 284 ; Heine, J. f. Orn. 1863, 



p. 176 ; Muls. ^ Verr. Class. Troch. p. 18. 

 Phaethornis fraterculus, Gould, Mon. Troch. i. pi. 18 (Sept. 1861) ; 



id. Intr. Troch. p. 42 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 2&o ; Muls. ^ Verr. 



Class. Troch. p. 18. 

 Phaethornis longirostris, Ridgiv. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 309 



(partim). 



Adult. Upper surface greenish bronze, the crown darker; the 

 feathers of the back and rump with a subterminal dark bar and 

 fringed with buff ; superciliary and malar stripes buff ; lores and 

 ear-coverts black ; under surface greyish drab ; the throat blackish, 

 with a faint indication of a median stripe (much more apparent in 

 some specimens than others) ; tail shining green, the distal third 

 black, the lateral feathers tipped with buff, the elongated portion of 

 the median feathers white : maxilla black ; mandible, except the 

 tip, flesh-colour ; feet brown. Total length about 7 inches, wing 2-5 ; 

 tail 3-1, lateral feathers 1-1 ; bill 1-95. 



Female. Smaller than the male, lighter buflf beneath, and with the 

 longitudinal median gular stripe clearer. 



Specimens with dark throats on which the central gular stripe can 

 barely be traced all appear appear to come from Cayenne ; they are 



