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(b) Saucerottia sauceroffei hoffmavni (Cab. & Heine). 



Hemithylaca Hoffmanni Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 38 (1860. — Costa Rica). 



Saiicerotlea sophiae Hartert, Tierreich, Lief. 9, 1000, p. .53(monogr.). 



Saucerottia sophiae sophiae Ridgway, Bull. U.S. Mux. No. 50, v, 1911. p. 439 (monogr.). 



Bab. Nieavagiia and Copta Rica. 



(c) Saucerottia saucerottei tcarsceuiczi (Cab. & Heine). 



Ilab. Northern Colombia (Santa Marta District, Rio Magdalena, San- 

 tander, etc.). 



(d) Saucerottia saiicerottei hraccata (Heine). 



Hab. Andes of Western Venezuela (Mt^rida). 



N.B. Trochilus calii/atus Gonld* is certainly not the Central Anaerican form, 

 but may be an earlier name for S. s. warscewiczi. The description tits the Santa 

 Marta bird exceedingly well. Cfr. " npper tail-coverts and tail bright steel-blne, 

 nnder tail-coverts the same, fringed with white." The type (if still extant) should 

 be re-examined. 



06. Amazilia forreri Bone = Amizilis amazilia (Less.). 



Orthorhyiichus Amazilia Lesson, Voyaiie <Je la Coquille, Zool. i. 2. p. 683. pi. .31. fig. 3 (April 1830 — 



" commune dans les buisaons du littoral du Pdrou "). 

 Amasilia forreri Boucard, The Humming Bird, iii. p. 7 (March 1803. — " Mazatlan, Mexico." 



errore !) ; idem, Genera nf Humming Birds, 1894, p. 193. 



No. 1. Mns. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, Coll. Boncard. Adnlt : " Amazilia forreri 

 Boncard, Mazatlan, Mexiqne, Forrer. Type of species." — -Wing 59; tail 35; 

 bill 19i mm. 



Mr. Ridgway f states : " I have not seen this species, which seems to be very 

 distinct." In company with Mons. Simon, I have carefnlly compared the type with 

 a good series of the West Peruvian ^4. amazilia, and have not the slightest hesita- 

 tion in saying that it is merely a specimen of that sjiecies with wrong locality. It 

 agrees in all essential points with examples from the West Coast of Peru in the 

 Paris Museum and in Mons. Simon's collection, and differs only by its slightly more 

 coppery green npper parts and by having the tips to the median rectrices a shade 

 darker, more blackish green. One example from Peru, liowever, approaches it very 

 closely. The maxilla is wholly black, as in a Lima specimen in Coll. Simon; the 

 coloration of the nnder parts is exactly the same as in x\. amazilia — the throat and 

 foreneck being golden green, the middle of the breast and abdomen white, the 

 flanks pale rufous, etc. Contrary to Dr. Hartert's statement,! the type does not 

 differ in size from ordinary Peruvian specimens. 



It i.s well to remember that the type was bought by the late Adolphe Boucard 

 in San Francisco from a dealer who told him it had been obtained by Forrer at 

 Mazatlan. But the " make " of the specimen is very different from that of 

 antlientic Fonerian skin.s, and as uo collector has ever met with the species about 

 Mazatlan, we may fairly assume that the assigned locality was an error. A. forreri 

 is, therefore, to be excluded from the Mexican Ornis and enters into the synonymy 

 of Amiziliis amazilia (Less.). 



• P. Z. S. Land. xvi. p. U (18J8.— New Granada), 

 t JivU. U.S. Mm., Nil. ISO, v, Nov. 1911, p. lU;. 

 I Tierreich, Lief. 9. 1900, p. 03. 



