Messrs. Salvin and Elliot on the Trochilidse. 13 



Our examples are as follows : — 



New Granada : three, Mus. S.&G.; four, Mus. D. G. E. 

 Veragua: four (Arce), Mus. S.&G. ; three (Arce), Mus. 

 D. G. E. ; one (Arce), Mus. P. L. S. 

 Costa Rica: five (Arce), Mus. S.&G. 



13. Phaethornis bourcieri. 



Trochilus bourcieri, Less. Les Trochil. p. 62, t. 18 (1832). 



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

 sp. 9; Gould, Mon. Troch. pi. 25. 



Ametrornis abnormis, Reich. Journ. fur Ornith. 1853, p. 14 ; 

 Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 27, 56. 



Hab. Pebas, Peru (Hauxwell) ; Marabitanas (Natt.). 



Lesson described this species from a specimen sent to him 

 by M. Bourcier, and he says that it appears to live in Brazil. 

 Its locality is satisfactorily fixed by specimens sent from the 

 Upper Amazon by Hauxwell (from Pebas), and by Mr. E. 

 Bartlett from Xeberos and Chyavetas. The Ametrornis ab- 

 normis of Pelzehi, of which Salvin has examined the type in 

 the Vienna Museum, is inseparable from this species. This 

 extends the range of the species to Marabitanas on the Rio 

 Negro, where Natterer procured his single specimen. Mr. 

 Gould, and also Cabanis (Mus. Hein.), state that the species 

 is found in Cayenne ; but we have been unable to verify this 

 assertion. 



We have examined the following examples : — 



Pebas, Peru : two (Hauxwell) , Mus. S.&G.; two (id.), Mus. 

 D.G.E. 



14. Phaethornis philippii. 



Trochilus philippii, Bourc. Ann. Sc. de Lyon, 1847, p. 623. 

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

 sp. 18; Gould, Mon. Troch. i. pi. 21. 

 Hab. Bolivia (fide Bourc). 



Columbian birds referred to above really belong to this species, and that its 

 range extends southwards in the warm valleys of the eastern slope of the 

 Andes, the range of P. emilice extending throughout the valley of the 

 Magdalena northwards to Costa Rica. 



According to Heine (J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 177) P. apicalis, Tsch. F. P. 243, 

 described from a specimen in the Berlin Museum, is the same as P. emilice. 



