PHiETIIOKNIS. 15 



Phwthornts supercilwsits, Swain, Class. B., vol. ii, j). S.'iO (18.37). — Gray, Gcii. T?., vol. i, p. 104. — nEirii., Trocli. 



Enum., p. 12 (1853). — Id., Aufz. tier Colib., p. 14 (1855). — Goui.n, Moii. 'I'rocli., vc.l. i. pi. 17.-^Sai,v. ;uid 



Elliot, Ibis (1873), p 4. — Elliot, Ibis (1877), p. 141. 

 Pliosthornis malaris, Norden., Erm. Reiso. Alt., pi. 2 (18.35). — Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 104, sp. 2. — IJo.v., 



Consp. Av., vol. i, p. 67 (1850). — Cab. aiul Heix., Mus. Heiii. Tli., iii, p. 9 (18G0). — Gould, Iiiti-. Tmcli., 



octavo cil.. p. 41, sp. 17 (18G1). 

 Phmtornis siipcrciliosus, Bon., Consp. Av., p. C7 (1850). — Id., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (IH51), p. 240. — Mils., 



Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., torn, i, p. (il. 

 Phcetornis malaris, Bon., Consp. Av., p. 07 (1850). — Id., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (1854), p. 240. 

 Plicvlhornis consobrinus, "BouRC," Reich., Aufz. der Colib., p. 17 (1853). — Gould, Intr.'I'roch., octavo cd., p. 42. 

 Phcelhornis fratercuhis, Gould, Mon. I'rocli., vol. i, pi. 18. — Id., lutr. Troch., octavo cd., p. 42 (18GI). 

 Phaihornis moorei, Lawr., Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist., vol. vi, p. 258 (1858). 



Hub. Guiana, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru. 



The adult has top of head dark brown, sometimes glossed with dark green. 

 Nape and back shining green or bronze; rump has all the feathers narrowly edged 

 with rufous, Avith a subtcrminal bar of dark brown, and the remaining portion like 

 those of the back. Tail shining green at base, succeeded by a jet black band and 

 tipped with bulF. Central pair of rectrices nuich longer than the rest, extend to a 

 point, and are pure white for. nearly their entire length beyond tlie lateral feathers. 

 Occasionally some of the lateral rectrices are edged Avith Avhite. Under parts dark 

 gray on breast and throat, changing to buff on the abdomen and lower tail coverts. 

 Some specimens have a median buff gular stripe, others have the entire throat 

 blackish-brown. Stripe over the eye, and one from the maxilla going under the 

 eye, buff. Bill black on the maxilla, flesh-color on the mandible. Total length, 6 

 in. Wing, 2| in. Tail, 2f in. Culmen. 1| in. 



The colors of the upper parts vary considerably, ranging from a dark green to 

 almost a bronzy-red, and the shades on the under portion are also different in 

 individuals, and this, without sufficient examples to show these variations, has been 

 the main reason tliat so many specimens have been described as distinct, and the 

 synonymy so greatly increased. 



9. Fhaethomis longirostris. 



Ornismya longirostris, Less, ct Be Lattke, Echo dn Monde Savant (1843), no. 45, p. 1070. 



Trochilus cephalus, BouRC. ct MuLS., Rev. Zool. (1848), p. 269. 



Ptyonornis cephala, Reich., Aufz. der Colib., p. 14 (1853). — Id., Troch. Enum., p. 12 (1855). 



Phcetornis ceplialus, Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (1854), p. 249.- — Mui.s., Hist. Nat. Ois. Moucb., torn, i, p. G4. 



Phcethornis cassini, Lawu., Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist., vol. viii, p. 347. 



Phccthornis cephalus, Gould, Mon. Troch., pi. 19. 



Phcethornis longirostris. Cab. and Hei.x., Mus. Heiri. Th.. iii, p. 9 (1860). — Gould, liilr. Troch.. p. 42. — Sai.v. 



and Elliot, Ibis (1873), p. .5. 

 Phcethornis holiviana, Gould, Intr. Mon. Troch., octavo ed., p. 42. 



Hal). Central America from Southern Mexico to the lower portion of the valley 

 of the Magdalena, and Avestern Ecuador. 



This bird is hardly separable from the preceding. As a rule tlu; buff edging on 

 the feathers of the rump and lower back are rather clearer and more conspicuous, 

 and the gidar stripe is a brighter buff, without the tendency to assume the blackish- 

 brown throat observed in some specimens of svperc'dlofins. Otherwise in their 

 general size and coloration tlie two forms are about the same. 



