4 Messrs. Salvin and Elliot on the Trochilidae. 



1. Phaethornis superciliosus. 



Trochilus superciliosus, Linn. Syst. Nat. (1766) torn. i. 

 p. 189 ; Vieill. Enc. Meth. Orn. ii. p. 549, sp. 5 ; Less. Hist. 

 Nat. des Col. p. 35, pi. 6 ; Traite d'Orn. p. 288. 



Phaethornis superciliosus, Swains. Class. Birds, vol. ii. p. 330 ; 

 Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i. p. 1 04 ; Gould, Mon. Troch. vol. i. pi. xvii. 



Phaethornis malaris, Nordm. Erm. Reis. Atl. p. 2 (1835) ; 

 Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i. p. 104, sp. 2; Bonap. Consp. Gen. 

 Av. torn. i. p. 67, sp. 2 ; Cab. & Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil. iii. 

 p. 9; Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 41, sp. 17 (8vo ed.). 



Phaethornis moorei, Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist. vi. 

 p. 258 (1858). 



"Phaethornis consobrinus, Bourc.," Reich. Aufz. Colibr. 

 p. 17; cf. J. f. Orn. 1853; Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 42. 



Phaethornis f rater cuius, Gould, Mon. Troch. vol. i. pi. xviii. 



Colibri a longue queue de Cayenne, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 687 ; 

 Buff. PI. Enl. 600. 3. 



Brin blanc, male, Vieill. Ois. Dor. torn. i. p. 37, pi. 17. 



Hob. Guiana ; Para {Mus. J. Gould) ; Pebas (HauxivelT) ; 

 Ecuador (Buckley) ; Columbia (Bourcier) . 



This bird was originally described by Brisson from specimens 

 sent to M. Reaumur by Mons. Atur, from Cayenne; and 

 upon this description Linnaeus founded his Trochilus super- 

 ciliosus. In 1835, Nordmann, in Erman's c Reise um die 

 Erde/ p. 2, bestowed another name upon the species, that of 

 T. malaris, quoting Linnseus's name as a synonym. But the 

 latter must of necessity take precedence, and that of Nord- 

 mann become a synonym. In 1858 Mr. Lawrence described 

 (/. c.) the Ecuadorian bird as Phaethornis moorei. This form 

 is known to us from the fact of the type having been sent to 

 Mr. Gould, and, on comparison, proved to be the same as the 

 bird which we have been in the habit of receiving from the 

 Upper Amazon and Ecuador, and which we now unite with 

 P. superciliosus. The P. moorei of Lawrence has been placed 

 by Mr. Gould, in his c Introduction to the Trochilidae/ as a 

 synonym of a species he calls P. consobrinus of Bourcier. This 

 species has never been characterized, and the name only exists 

 from the fact that Reichenbach, in his Aufzahlung der Colibris, 



