S-'^O TROCniLI. 



1 . Aglaeactis cupreipennis. 



Trochilus cupreipennis, Bourc. <§• Muls. Ann. Sc. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, 



vi. p. 46 (1843) ; iid. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 71 ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. 



p. 140. 

 AgliBactis cupreipennis, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 73 ; id. Bev. Zool. 1854, 



p. 253; Gould, Mon. Troch.iu. pi. 179 (Sept. 1856); id. Intr. 



Troch. p. 106; Jameson ^ Fraser, Ibis, 1859, p. 400; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1860, pp. 60, 81 ; id. Cat. Am. B. p. 302 ; Muls. ^- Verr. Class. 



Troch. p. m ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 377 ; Mxds. Hist. Nat. Ois.- 



Mouches, ill. p. 24, iv. p. 215; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxn. 



p. 218 ; Elliot, Sipi. Troch. p. 186 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 36 ; id. 



0/-«. PeV. i. p. 340; Berl. ^ Tacz. P. Z. «. 1884, p. 304 ; Berl. 



J.f. Orn. 1887, p. 324. 

 Aglaiactis cupreipennis, Cab. <^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 69. 

 Helianthea S. Aglaeactis cupreipennis, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 9 ; id. 



Troch. Enum. p. 6, pi. 737. ff. 4689-90. 

 Aglaiactis aequatorialis, Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 70 ; Heine, 



J.f. Orn. 1863, p. 211. 

 Aglfeactis aequatonalis, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 106 ; Scl. Cat. Am. 



B. p. 302. 

 Aglaeactis cupreipennis, var. ajquatorialis, 7lf?^/s. i^ JWr. Class. Troch. 



i. p. 66; Muls. Ann. Soc. Litm. Lyon, xxii. p. 218. 

 Aglaeactis parvula, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 106. 

 Aglaiactis parvula, Heine, J.f. Orn. 1863, p. 211. 

 Aglfeactis cupreipennis, var. parvula, Muls. ^ Verr. Class. Troch. 



p. 66 ; Muls. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 218 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 



1880, p. 207. 

 Trochilus aequatorialis. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 140. 



Adult male. Upper surface dark brown, faintly washed with dark 

 bronzy green, darker on the crown ; lower back when viewed from 

 behind glittering amethyst, becoming golden green on the rump and 

 passing into grass-green on the upper tail-coverts ; under surface 

 rufous ; ear-coverts and chin browner, an indistinct tuft of buff 

 feathers on the breast ; rectrices rufous, the central pair nearly 

 wholly greenish bronze, the basal two-thirds of the shafts only and 

 the webs immediately adjoining rufous, the remainder with broad 

 tips and with the outer webs greenish ; bill black, the base of the 

 mandible flesh-colour. Total length about 4*7 inches, wing 3*5 ; 

 tail, central rectrices 1"65, lateral 1-8 ; bill 0-9. 



Female. Similar to the male, but with the back less brilliant. 



The Ecuador bird has been separated from the Colombian as A. 

 cequatoricdis and the Peruvian as A. parvida, but the diifereuces 

 seem to me to be slight and variable. 



Hah. Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. 



ad. S ad. ; e, Colombia (Bogota make). Salvin-Godman, 



f. 2 ad. sk. Gould, & Sclater 



Colls. 

 ff. J ad. sk. Pasto, Ecuador (Lehmaim). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



h,i. cTad.sk. Quito, Ecuador. Gould Coll. 



j-l. S ad. ; m. Ecuador (Fraser). Salvin-Godman, 



cf iuv. sk. Gould, it Sclater 



Colls. 



