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Phaethornis yaruqui sancti-johannis^ Hellmayr. St. Johanna's Her- 

 mit. 

 Phaethornis yaruqui sancti-johannis Hellmayr, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XXVII, 

 191 1, p. 92 (West Colombia); Hellmayr, Proc. Zool. See. Lend., 191 1, p. 

 1 178; Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1917, p. 281 (Western 

 Colombia, several localities). 



Range: Lowlands of western Colombia. 



Phaethornis superciliosus superciliosus^ {Linn.). Guiana Hermit. 

 Trochilus superciliosus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., I, ed. 12, 1766, p. 189 ("Cay- 



emie").° 

 Polytmus cayanensis longicaudus Brisson, Orn., Ill, 1760, p. 686, pi. 35, Fig. 5. 

 Phaethornis fraterculus GovLD.Mon.TvochU.., I, i86i,pl. 18 ("Cayenne"); Id., 



Introd. Trochil., p. 42. 

 Phaethornis guianensis Boucard, Humming Birds, I, 1891, p. 17 (British 



Guiana) .^ 

 Phaethornis superciliosus Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 270, part; 



Chubb, Bds. British Guiana, I, 1916. 



Range: British Guiana, Venezuela, and northwestern Brazil; 

 French Gtiiana? 



3 : British Gtiiana 2 ; North Brazil (base of Serra da Lua Mts., near 

 Boa Vista, Rio Branco) i. 



Phaethornis superciliosus moorei {Lawrence) .^ Moore's Hermit. 



Phaethornis moorei Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. Y., VI, 1858, p. 258 



(Ecuador). 

 Phaethornis consobrinus (nom. nud.) (Bourcier, MS.) Reichenbach, Aufz. d. 



Colib., 1853, P- 17- 



* Phaethornis yaruqui sancti-johannis Hellmayr: According to Hellmayr it 

 differs from P. y. yaruqui (BouRC.) in having shorter bill, broader and darker post- 

 ocular and malar streaks, median throat stripe wider and confluent with the smoke- 

 gray abdomen, which is only slightly spotted with metallic green; whereas in P. y. 

 yaruqui the under parts are largely metaUic green and the throat with a median 

 stripe of sooty blackish. Chapman (I.e.) states that it differs chiefly in its grayer 

 under parts. 



'' As stated by Hartert (Nov. Zool., IV, 1897, p. 29) Phaethornis superciliosus 

 (Linn.) based upon Polytmus cayanensis longicaudus Brisson clearly refers to the 

 smaller bird with tawny and buff colored throat and breast, having a distinctly 

 marked throat and bill about lyi inches long (slightly less according to Brisson). 

 Audebert and Vieillot, 1802, figured a bird with larger and longer bill; dusky marked 

 throat, and more grayish under parts (which was later described by Nordmann as 

 malaris) evidently supposing it to superciliosus Linn, and he was followed by Lesson, 

 1 83 1, and later by Gould. Gould evidently supposing that Nordmann had merely 

 red escribed superciliosus and having specimens from "Guiana," which were quite 

 different, again described the smaller and more buffy bird as fraterculus. 



" I strongly suspect that the type of P. superciliosus Linn, came from British 

 Guiana. 



'^ I have examined specimens identified as guianensis by Boucard. 



''Phaethornis superciliosus moorei (Lawr.): Differs from P. s. superciliosus 

 (Linn.) from Guiana, in smaller size; bill shorter and more slender; gular stripe more 

 distinct; under parts less rufescent. 



