NO. 1258. COLLECTIOX OF HUMMINGBIRDS— OBERHOLSER. 329 
the feathers of the posterior abdomen very broadly tipped with dull 
ochraeeous. 
In fine plumage in July and August. These liinls are very local, and, unlike 
many species, they are not found all along the western Andes of Ecuador. Xanegal 
was the only place where we met with them, though we visited other places at the 
same altitude and with similar surroundings. Local name, "Vicente." 
BOISSONNEAUA FLAVESCENS TINOCHLORA, new subspecies. 
Fifteen specimens, from Corazon, Pichincha. and Canzaeota, west 
Ecuador. This series, when compared with an equally good series 
of Boissonneaua Jlavescens from Bogota, makes evident certain ditter- 
ences which surely justify the subspecitic separation of the former. 
The t^'pe of B. jlovexccns'^ came from Popayan, Colombia, and though 
intermediate, is probably nearest like the Bogota bird. The only 
other synonym is (9/7? /.w? A/ ^w/Y?^/.«7(;Y^^ described from Bogota; and 
the Ecuador form thus being without a name, may be described as 
follows: 
7}/^>t^.— Adult male. No. 174520, U.S.N.M.; west side of Corazon, 
Ecuador. September, 1898; Goodfellow and Hamilton. Rich metallic 
green, the crown and breast glittering green; tail darker and duller 
than the back, the basal three-fourths of all but the middle pair of 
feathers butlv ochraeeous; wing-quills purplish brown, the coverts 
like the back; abdomen feathers with butfy or whitish margins; lower 
tail-coverts buffy ochraeeous, obsoletely spotted with dusky: tibial 
tufts white: axillars rufous; lining of wing metallic green. 
This race differs from true Jlavescens in the very much ])roader 
green tips of the tail-feathers, particularly on the inner webs of the 
two outer pairs, where they occupy fully a quarter of the total length 
of the feathers; the wing quills are darker, more purplish; the middle 
tail-feathers are usually darker; the crissum and the l)uffy portions of 
the tail are darker. There is no essential difference in size. 
The statement by Hartert'^ that in the young the ))urt'v of the out- 
ermost tail-feathers reaches to the tips does not hold in this form. 
Except for rusty edgings to some of the feathers, the inunature male 
is in all respects ver}- similar to the adult female. 
A good series collected on Corazon, west Ecuador, at elevations of from 11,000 to 
13,000 feet. It was somewhat strange that we never once saw one of these birds on 
the neighboring mt)untain of Pichincha, which almost joins Corazon. 
VESTIPEDES LUCIANI (Bourcier). 
Trochilus luciani Bourcier, Ann. Sc. Phys. et Xat. Lyon, X, 1847, p. 624. 
Eriocnemis hiciam Gould, Mon. Troch., IV, 1853, pi. cclxxiii. 
Forty-six specimens, from the following localities .in Ecuador: 
' Loddiges, Proc. Zool. Sec. Lond., 1832, p. 7. 
■^ Boissonneau, Rev. Zool., 1840, p. 6. 
^Tierreich, IX, 1900, p. 142. 
