10 Messrs. Salvia and Elliot on the Trochilidae. 



Phaethornis anthophilus, Gray & Mitch. Gen. Birds, i. p. 104, 

 sp. 15 ; Gould, Mon. Troch. i. pi. 24; Uricoechia, Contr. a las 

 Cienc. 1861, p. 7. 



Hub. Upper part of the valley of the Magdalena, temperate 

 region (Bourcier) ; Tibacuy [Uricoechia) ; Venezuela (Goering) . 



Bourcier, in the ' Revue Zoologique ' for 1843, described 

 this bird from specimens in his own collection, giving as the 

 habitat the temperate region of the upper valley of the Mag- 

 dalena. This article appears to have been reproduced in the 

 ' Annals ' of the Society of Lyons under the authorship of 

 MM. Bourcier and Mulsant, in which the precise habitat 

 given above is omitted. Mr. Gould seems to have consulted 

 the latter journal only, inasmuch as he states that M. Bour- 

 cier was unaware of the locality from which his specimen 

 came, and he (Mr. Gould) assigns it correctly to Columbia, 

 though not for the first time. The extension of its range into 

 Venezuela is based upon a single specimen sent direct from 

 that country by Mr. A. Goering (P. Z. S. 1868, p^ 628) . The 

 only other authority for the range of this species being greater 

 than that already given depends on the fact that Pelzeln, in 

 the Ornith. Brasil. p. 27, records one specimen from Engenho 

 do Gama, collected by Nattercr. It is just possible that this 

 specimen may have been wrongly identified. 



We have examined the following specimens : — 



Venezuela: one (Goering), Mus. S. & G. 



New Granada : three, Mus. D. G. E. ; one (ex Gould), Mus. 

 P. L. S. 



Bogota : two, Mus. S. & G. ; one, Mus. P. L. S. 



Barranquilla : one (Rippori), Mus. P. L. S. 



8. Phaethornis augusti. 



Trochilus augusti, Bourc. Ann. des Scien. Phys. &c. de Lyon, 

 i. p. 623 (1847). 



Phaethornis augusti, Gould, Mon. Troch. i. pi. 29 ; Wyatt, 

 Ibis, 1871, p. 376. 



Hah. Caraccas, Venezuela (Salle) ; Ocana, Columbia ( Wyatt) . 



The position of this species is rightly indicated by M. 

 Bourcier as being next to P. pretrii, of Brazil. Besides the 



