Messrs. Salvin and Elliot on the Trochilidse. 1 1 



country from which the type came, it has also been obtained 

 by Mr. Wyatt at Ocafia, in the valley of the Magdalena. 

 The following specimens have been examined : — 

 Venezuela: one (Salle), one (Bourcier), one (Bouvier), 

 Mus. D. G. E. ; one (Salle), Mus. S. & G. 



9. Phaethornis pretrii. 



Trochilus pretrii, Less, ct De Latt. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 20. 



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

 t. 35. sp. 16 ; Gould, Mon. Troch. i. pi. 28. 



Trochilus super ciliosus, Max. Beitr. iv. p. 116 (1832). 



Phaethornis super ciliosus, Cab. & Herri. Mus. Hein. Th. iii. 

 p. 9 (1860) ; Gould, Introd. Troch. p. 45. 



Hah. Minas Ccracs (Rogers) ; Bahia (Pr. Max. ; Wucherer) . 



This species was first fully described by Prince Max., under 

 the name of P. super ciliosus, he having mistaken it for the 

 species described by Linnaeus under that name. In 1839 

 Lesson and De Lattre redescribed it in the / Revue Zoolo- 

 gique ' as P. pretrii, which name will of course be the one for 

 it to bear. The types of these last-named authors were pro- 

 cured from the Brazilian province of Minas Geracs. Cabanis 

 and Heine in their ' Museum Hcineanum/ for reasons we 

 cannot appreciate, assumed this species to be the P. super cili- 

 osus of Linnaeus, a course which unfortunately was followed by 

 Mr. Gould in his ' Introduction to the Troehilidae/ though 

 in the body of his work he figured it under its proper name. 

 It is a well-known and well-marked Brazilian bird, being sent 

 not unfrecpiently from Bahia; and we have also before us a 

 skin from Minas Gcraes, recently sent by Mr. Rogers. 



The following specimens have been examined : — 



Pernambuco : two (Bourcier), Mus. D. G. E. 



Bahia : one (Youds), Mus. S. & G. ; one, Mus. D. G. E. 



Brazil : two, Mus. D. G. E. ; one, Mus. P. L. S. 



Santa Fe, Minas Geraes : one (Rogers), Mus. S. & G. 



10. Phaethornis yaruqui. 



Trochilus yaruqui, Bourc. Compt. Rend. no. xxxii. p. 187. 

 Phaethornis yaruqui, Gould, Mon. Troch. pi. 27. 

 Hah. Ecuador; environs of Yaruqui (Bourcier). 



