lifiO TKOCiill.I. 



j. (Jad.: fi,/. tS (-'liiriiiui {E. Arce). Salvin-Goduiaii & 



juv. sk. Sclatev Culls. 



m. J ad. sk. Lajjuna del Castillo, raiiaiiia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{E. Arce). 



n. S ad. ; o. S Santiago de Veraguas {Ane). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



juv. sk. 



p, q. cT ad. ; r. Santa F^, Panama (Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2 ad. sk. 



f,r. cJ ad.; ii. Cliepo, Panama ( .1/-cy'). Salvin-Godman & 



2 ad. sk. Gould Colls. 



t~z. o fid. sk. Colombia (Hogota make). Salvin-Godman & 



Gould Colls. 



a', c? ad. sk. Ecxiador (Bucklci/). Gould Coll. 



b',c'. J ad. ; d'. l.l])])er Amazoufi (Bartlett). Gould Coll. 



_ d juv. sk. 



e',f. ci' ad. sk. Venezuela. Salvin-Godman & 



Gould Colls. 



(/'. cJ ad. sk. Sau Esteban, Venezuela. Sclater Coll. 



h\ t. c? ad. St. Purchased. 



103. ERIOCNEMIS. „ 



Type. 



Eriopus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 16 (nee Treitsehke). E. vestita. 



Eriocneuiis, Reich. Syst. Av. pi. xl. (1849) E. vestita. 



Eriocnemis a. Engyte, Heich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 9 



(1854) ' ." E. alinas. 



Eriocnemis y. Threptria, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 9 



(18o4) E. mosquera. 



Eriocnemis b. Phemonoe, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 9 



(1854) E. luciani. 



Aline, "i?«Wi.," ") „ a c ^^ , , , 



Mosqueria, " Reich.- i ^P.' ^T'i^tisJn ' '' ' 

 Luciani, "WcA.," j i- P- 137 (1854). 

 Derbvomyia, Bp. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, i. p. lo7. 



Erebenna, Mid.s. S,- Terr. Class. Troch. p. 66 E. derbyi. 



Eriocnemis (Niche), Muls. Atm. Sac. Linn. Lyon, 



xxii. pp. 217, 218 E. glaucopoides. 



Eriocnemis (Pholoe), Muls. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 



xxii. pp. 217, 218 E. dyselius. 



Eriocnemis (Nania), Muls. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 



xxii. pp. 217, 218 E. cupreiventris. 



Eriona, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. 28 . . E. godini. 



lianae. Andes from Venezuela and Colombia to Bolivia. 



As a whole, Eriocnemis is a tolerably homogeneous genus, though 

 it contains several fairly -well-marked sections. All, however, have 

 the legs clothed with downy feathers, which form a very conspicuous 

 feature, the shape of the tail serving to separate the other genera 

 also po.ssessirig it. The most distinct member of the genus is 

 E. derhyi, which not only has the tufts of the legs differently coloured 

 in the sexes, but also has the outermost rectrix on either side of 

 very singular shape, the outer web being evanescent almost to the 

 tip of the feather, which is very acute. The female shows this 

 peculiarity to a less extent. Should it be thought advisable to 



