I50 Field Museum of Natural History— Zoology, Vol. XIII. 



Genus THRENETES Gould. 



Threnetes Gould, Mon. Trochil., pt. IV, 1852, pi. 13 (Type Trochilus leucurus 

 Linn.). 



♦Threnetes antoniae {Bourc. and Muls.). Sooty Barbed-throat. 

 Trochilus antoniae Bourcier and MtrLSANT, Ann. Sc. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, IX, 



1846, p. 329 (Cayenne). 

 Threnetes antoniae Gould, Mon. Trochil., I, 1852, pi. 15; Salvcn, Cat. Bds. Brit. 



Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 266. 

 Range: French Guiana. 

 I : French Guiana. 



♦Threnetes leucurus leucurus (Linn.). White-tailed Barbed- 

 throat. 

 Trochilus leucurus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., I, ed. 2, 1766, p. 190 ("America 



Meridionali ' ' = Surinam) .* 

 Threnetes leucurus Gould, Mon. Trochil., I, 1852, pi. 13; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. 

 Mus., XVI., 1892, p. 264; Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., 1910, p. 373; Chubb, Bds. 

 Brit., Guiana, I, 1916, p. 380. 

 Range: Dutch Gmana, British Guiana and north Brazil (Teffe?). 

 2: "Colombia"? 



♦Threnetes leucurus rufigastra Cory.^ Peruvian Barbed-throat. 

 Threnetes leucurus rufigastra Cory, Field Mus. Pub., No. 183, Cm. Ser. I, No. 9, 

 1915, p. 303 (Moyobamba, Peru). 



Range: Northern Peru. 



I : Peru (Moyobamba) the type. 



♦Threnetes cervinicauda Gould. Fawn-tailed Barbed-throat. 



Threnetes cervinicauda Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1854, p. 109 (Quijos, 

 Ecuador); Id., Mon. Trochil., I, 1861, pi. 14; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 

 XVI, 1892, p. 265; Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., XIII, 1906, p. 374. 



Range: East Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, northeastern 

 Brazil (Para?). 

 I : Colombia. 



♦Threnetes ruckeri ruckeii (Bourcier). Rucker's Barbed-throat. 



Trochilus ruckeri Bourcier, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, p. 46 (Locality un- 

 known = Panama) ." 



Clauds ruckeri Gould, Mon. Trochil., I, 1851, pi. 11; Id., Introd. Trochil., 1861, 

 p. 3 (Veragua, Panama). 



» Type locality designated by Brabourne and Chubb, Bds. S. Am., I, 1912, p. 105. 



^ Threnetes leucurus rufigastra Cory: Similar to T. I. leucurus (Linn.) from Guiana, 

 but differs in having the sides, flanks and abdomen decidedly more brownish buflE 

 and back more bronzy green. 



" I designate Veragua, Panama, 



