Mr. D. G. Elliot on the Trodiilidffi. 171 



My specimens are : — 



Antioquia, Columbia, 3 (Salmon) , Columbia 5 (eo? Whitely) , 

 Mus. D.G.E.; Bogota 1 [Chesterton), 2 [ex Truhner), Mus. S. 

 & G. ; Bogota 1 {Ward), 1 (Stevens), 1 (Eyton), Mus. P. L. S. 



PaNYCHLORA ALICI.E. 



Trochilus alicia, Bourc. & Muls. Bev. Zool. 1848, p. 274. 



Chlorostilbon alicice, Gould. Mon. Troch. v. pi. 357. 



Panychlora aliciae, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 179, sp. 411. 



"Panychlora aurata, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Tli. iii. (1860) 

 p. 50, sp. 110? 



Hab. Caracas, Venezuela (Bourcier, Boucard). 



This species, first described by Bourcier and Mulsant in the 

 ' Bevue Zoologique,^ as above cited, is one of the very smallest 

 of Humming-birds. It is easily recognized by its entirely 

 golden-green breast and very dark green tail, almost black in 

 some specimens at the base. It can only be confounded with 

 the P. poortmani ; but its short bill and differently coloured 

 tail will easily distinguish it. I have placed the P. aurata of 

 Cab. & Heine among the synonyms of this species, judging 

 from their description, which answers capitally for this bird. 

 The locality, Peru, however, is one from which I have never 

 seen a specimen of this species brought. It is possible the 

 learned authors may have been misled as to the habitat 

 of their specimen. Smaragdites euchloris, Beich., appears 

 from the figure to be P. alicice, from the dark tail ; but the 

 figure is so unsatisfactory that access to the type will be 

 necessary to enable one to say what the bird really is. 



My specimens are : — 



Caracas : 1, type of species (Bourcier), 1 (ex Gould), 5 (Bou- 

 card), Mus. D. G. E. 



Panychlora stenura. 



Panychlora stenura. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iii. p. 50 

 (footnote) (1860); Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 180, sp. 413. 



Panychlora alicia, Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 379. 



Chlorostilbon acuticaudus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 308. 



Hab. Merida, Venezuela (Goering) ; Ocana, Columbia 

 (Wyatt). 



