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(b) Saucerottia snucerottei kofmanni (Cab. & Heine). 



Ifemithylaca Hoffmanni Cabanis & Heine, Mas. Hein. iii. p. 38 (1860. Costa Rica). 



Saticerottea sophiae Hartert, Tierreich, Lief. 9, 1900, p. 53 (monogr.). 



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



Hab. Nicaragua and Costa Rica. 



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



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

 tander, etc.). 



(d) Saucerottia saucerottei braccata (Heine). 



Hab. Andes of Western Venezuela (Merida). 



N.B. Trockilus caligatus Gould * is certainly not the Central American form, 

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

 Marta bird exceedingly well. Cfr. " upper tail-coverts and tail bright steel-blue, 

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

 be re-examined. 



66. Amazilia forreri Bouc. = Amizilis amazilia (Less.). 



Orthorhynchus Amazilia Lesson, Voyage de la Coquille, Zool. i. 2. p. 683. pi. 31. fig. 3 (April 1830 



" commune dans les buissons du littoral du Pe'rou ") 

 Amazilia forreri Boucard, The Humming Bird, iii. p. 7 (March 1893. " Mazatlan, Mexico." 



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



No. 1. Mr d'Hist. Nat. Paris, Coll. Boucard. Adult: " Amazilia forreri 

 Boucard, Mazatian, Mexique, Forrer. Type of species." Wing 59 ; tail 35 ; 

 bill 19| mm. 



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

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

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

 tion in saying that it is merely a specimen of that species 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 upper parts and by having the tips to the median rectrices a shade 

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

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

 coloration of the under parts is exactly the same as in A. 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, t the type does not 

 differ in size from ordinary Peruvian specimens. 



It is 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 

 authentic Forrerian skins, and as no 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 Amizilis amazilia (Less.). 



* P. Z. S. Lend. xvi. p. 14 (1848. New Granada), 

 f Bull. U.S. Mv*., No. 50, v, Nov. 1911, p. 416. 

 j Tierreich, Lief. 9. 1900, p. 63. 



