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



*Phaeochroa roberti Salvin. Owen's Humming Bird. 



Aphantochroa roberti Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, p. 203 (Vera Paz, 



eastern Guatemala). 

 Campylopterus roberti Gould, Mon. Trochil., II, 1861, pi. 53. 

 Phaeochroa roberti Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 300; Ridgway, 



Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 191 1, p. 365. 



Range: Guatemala and British Honduras to eastern Nicaragua. 

 5 : Nicaragua. 



Genus TAPHROSPILUS Simon. 



Taphrospilus Simon, Rev. Franc. d'Om., 1910, p. 261 (Type Aphantochroa 

 hyposticta Gould). 



Taphrospilus hyposticta (Gould). Gould's Spotted White-throat. 



Aphantochroa hyposticta Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1862, p. 124 (Ecuador); 

 Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 29; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, 

 p. 298. 



Range: Eastern slope of Andes of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. 



Genus THAUMASIUS^ Sclater. 



Thaumasius Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 46 (Type T. taczanowskii 

 Sclater). 



*Thaumasius taczanowskii Sclater. Taczanowski's White-throat. 

 Thaumasius taczanowskii Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 146 (Cal- 



lacate, Peru); Sharpe in Gould's Mon. Trochil., Suppl., 1855, pl- 52. 

 Agyrtria taczanowskii Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 193. 



Range: Andes of Peru. 



3: Peru (Balsas 2, and Cajamarca i). 



Genus TALAPHORUS Mulsant. 



Talaphorus Mulsant, Hist. Nat. Ois-Mouches, I, 1874, p. 257 (Type Leucippus 

 chlorocercus Gould). 



Talaphorus chlorocercus (Gould). Spotted White-throat. 



Leucippus chlorocercus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, p. 194 (Upper 

 Ucayali, Peru); Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 199; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. 

 Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 201; Snethlage, Bol. Mus. Goeldi, VIII, 1914, p. 193 

 (Cat. Av. Amazon). 



Range: Eastern Peru and upper Amazon, Brazil (Snethlage). 



•According to Chubb (Bds. Brit. Guiana, I, 1916, p. 394, note) Thaumasius 

 Sclater is an amended name for Thaumantius Bonap. and is preoccupied in Aranae. 

 He, therefore, proposes a new name, Barbour nea, for the genus with T. taczanowskii 

 Sclater for the type. 



