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■which, in Bourcier's handwriting, is the following : — " T. 

 phcebe. Je n'ai pas public cette espece k bee noir vcnant du 

 Perou, parcequc Lesson a deja donne ce nom." Having no 

 doubt that Bourcier had compared this specimen with Les- 

 son's type to have enabled him to arrive at this conclusion, 

 I have no hesitation in placing Lesson's name of phcebe 

 among the synonyms oi prasinus, Less. In any case, if Bour- 

 cier's identification is correct, Mr. Gould's name oi peruanus 

 would have to sink into a synonym. C. prasinus, then, 

 is a species easily recognized by its short nearly square tail 

 and long wings, reaching to the end of the rectrices. The 

 Argytria media, Pelz., and C meliphila, Pelz., I have ascer- 

 tained, from the examination of the types, to be this species 

 {vide Ihis., 1874, p. 263). 



The specimens I have examined are as follows : — 

 Cayenne: 1 (ea? FerreoMa;), Mus. P. L. S.; 1, Mus. S.&G. ; 

 1 {ex Gould), 1 {ex jBoMcar^), Mus. D. G. E. Ecuador: 1 

 {ex Whitely), Mus. D. G. E. Peru: 1 {Hauxwell), 1 {Lerch), 

 Mus. D. G. E. j 2 {Hauxwell), Mus. S. & G. ; 1, type of 

 daphne, Bourc, 1, type oi peruanus, Gould, Mus. J. Gould. 



Chloristilbon splendidus. 



Trochilus splendidus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. torn. vii. 

 p. 361 (1817); id. Enc. Meth. p. 563 (1823). 



Trochilus phaethon, Bourc. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 274. 



Chlorestes phaethon, Reich. Enum. Trochil. p. 4, pi. 755, 

 figs. 4734, 4735. 



Chlorostilbon bicolor, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iii. 

 p. 46, sp. 102 (1860) . 



Chlorostilbon phaethon, Gould, Mon. Troch. v. pi. 354; id. 

 Intr. Troch. p. 175, sp. 399. 



Drochilus flavifrons, Gould, Voy. Beagle, Birds, p. 110. 



Ornismya aureiventris, D'Orb. & Lafresn. Syn. Av. p. 28. 



Chlorostilbon aureiventris, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 176, 

 sp. 400. 



Hab. Buenos Ayres {Verreaux) to Mendoza {Weisshaupt) , 

 across the southern part of the continent; Bolivia {D'Or- 

 bigny) . 



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