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NO. 1258. COLLECTION OF HUMMINGBIRDS— OBERHOLSER. 333 
HELIANGELUS STROPHIANUS (Gould). 
Trocliilas ( •?) stropliianuH Govhv, Proc. Zool. Soo. Loml., 1846, p. 45. 
Hdiangehis sirophianus Bonaparte, Consp. Avium I, 1850, p. 76. 
Tliirty-tive specimens, from the t'ollowino- localities: San Gabriel; 
Gualea; Canzacota; lower west side of Pichincha, Ecuador; Popa^^an, 
Colombia. The birds from San Gabriel have the rump only a little 
more bronzy than the back, but as this is also the case in some of the 
specimens from other localities, no importance attaches thereto. The 
single bird from Popayan adds the species to the fauna of Columliia. 
The throat in this individual is rather more violet purple than in any 
of the others, in this respect apparently approaching Ild/anc/elus 
rioUcollis^ but it otherwise does not differ from typical specimens of 
f<tro2)hianus. Whether or not Ileliangelus violicollis is a good species 
can of course not be determined b}^ the present material, ])ut too 
nuich importance must not be attached to the precise shade of metallic 
feathers in separating species of hummingbirds. In the present 
series there is an unbroken range of shades in the metallic throat 
patch of various individuals, from the violet purple of this Popa3'an 
specimen to a pure solferino, and this variation is not at all correlated 
with localit}", but is undoubtedly individual, induced doubtless in part 
at least b}- the difference in age of the feathers and the amount of wear 
to which the}' have been subjected. 
One shot in the patio of a house near Popayan, southern Colomljia, at 5,600 feet, 
where it was hunting for spiders under the veranda. Local name, "Cravata malva." 
HELIANGELUS AMETHYSTICOLLIS (d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye). 
Orihorhynchus amethysticollis d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye, Mag. Zool., VIII, 1838, 
p. 31. 
Hcliaugelus amethysticollis Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, I, 1850, p. 76. 
One adult male from below Baeza, on the road to Archidona, 
east Ecuador. 
I 1)elieve this species has not been recorded before from Ecuador. The single 
specimen was obtained on a river bank a little below Baeza, on the eastern side of 
the eastern Andes, where we noticed it darting out into the air from a branch to 
catch the small gnats hovering over the water. 
HELIANGELUS EXORTIS EXORTIS (Eraser). 
Trocfdlus exortis Y^.M^YLR, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1840, p. 14. 
Ileliangelus exortis Hartert, Tierreich, IX, 1900, p. 160. 
Five specimens from Papallacta, east Ecuador. They have been 
compared with a good series from the vicinity of Bogota, Colombia, 
the t3pe locality, and seem to be identical. 
