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1953, p. 5) has united aurita and barroti as one species. As the males 

 are always distinct, with no intermediates, I prefer to treat the two 

 as separate specific entities. 



De Schauensee has remarked that Cartagena, the type locality 

 cited in the original description for barroti, is improbable as that 

 region is not suited to this forest-loving hummingbird. The type 

 specimen was sent to the Paris Museum in 1834 by Adolphe-Ferdinand 



Figure 44. — Violet-crowned fairy, colibri de coronilla violacea, Heliothryx 

 barroti. 



Barrot, consul general for France, stationed at Cartagena, and was 

 named by Bourcier in his honor. It is this source that led to assign- 

 ment of the type locality in the original description. 



HELIOMASTER LONGIROSTRIS LONGIROSTRIS (Audebert and 

 Vieillot): Long-billed Star-Throat, Garganta-Estrella Piquilarga 



Trochilus longirostris Audebert and Vieillot, Ois. Dores, vol. 1, 1801, p. 128, 



pi. 59. (Trinidad.) 

 Heliomastcr vcraguensis Boucard, Gen. Hummingbirds, 1895, p. 304. 



("Veragua.") 



Large; with long, nearly straight bill, and prominent, partly 

 iridescent, reddish purple gorget. 



