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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
VOL. XXIV. 
HELIANGELUS EXORTIS SODERSTROMI, new subspecies. 
A single specimen from the lower side of Corazon, Ecuador, is the 
only one in the collection, but it difters so much from birds taken on 
the eastern Andes that in all probabilit}^ it represents the form of this 
species occurring on the west side of the mountains. It differs from 
true exortis in its very much smaller size and in the decidedly more 
golden tint of the green portions of the plumage, this particularh' 
evident on the upper surface. It may be described as follows: 
T[ipe.—^o. 17-1008, U.S.N. M., male adult; lower west side of Cora- 
zon, Ecuador, September, 1898; Goodfellow and Hamilton. Body 
plumage golden bronze green, least golden on back and sides; a glit- 
tering green frontal patch; middle of chin violet blue, shading into 
solferino on the center of the throat; wing quills fuscous, with a gloss 
of purplish or bluish; tail bluish black, the two middle feathers green 
like the rump; feathers of central abdomen edged with buff'y grayish; 
under tail-coverts white. The following measurements show the 
difference in size between the two forms: 
Narae. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
Wing. 
Tail. 
Exposed 
culmen. 
Ueliangclus exortis exortis .... 
Male adult, 
do 
Papallacta, east Ecuador 
Corazon, west Ecuador 
67 
62 
48 
42 
17 
15 
At the request of Mr. Goodfellow this race is named for Mr. Soder- 
strom, the English consul-general at Quito, who manifested much 
interest in the gathering of the present collection. 
HELIANGELUS VIOLA Gould. 
Heliangelus viola Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1853, p. 61. 
Four specimens, from Papallacta, east Ecuador, and the west side 
of Pichincha, west Ecuador. 
LATICAUDA PRIMOLINA (Bourcier). 
MetaUurajirunolimisBovRCiER, Rev. et. ]\Iag. Zool., 1853, p. 295. 
Seventeen specimens, from the following localities in Ecuador: 
Papallacta; road to Baeza; Curiurcu (above Baeza). 
Generally in the coniiiany of AdeJomyia meJanogenys, feeding on the wild fuchsias. 
LATICAUDA TYRIANTHINA TYRIANTHINA (Loddiges). 
Troclnlus tyriantldnus Loddiges, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1832, p. 6. 
Metallura tyrianthinus Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, 1, 1850, p. 75. 
Sixteen specimens, from Papallacta, east Ecuador. These agree 
closely with a series of true tyrianthina from Colombia, differing 
onl}" in averaging slightly paler below, verging thus a little toward 
