1918. Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory. 173 



Genus PATAGONA Gray. 

 Patagona Gray, List. Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 18 (Type Trochilus gigas Vieill.). 



*Patagona gigas gigas ( Vieillot). Chilian Giant Humming Bird. 



Trochilus gigas Vieillot, Gal. Ois., I, 1825, p. 296; pi. 180 ("Bresil"). 



Ornismya tristis Lesson, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, 1829, p. 43, pi. 3. 



Patagona gigas Gould, Mon. Trochil., pt. 4, 1855, pl- 232; Elliot, Syn. 



Trochil., 1879, p. 67, part; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 348, 



part. 



Range: Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. 

 2 : Chile. 



*Patagona gigas peruviana* Boucard. Peruvian Giant Humming 

 Bird. 

 Patagona peruviana Boucard, Gen. Humming Bds., 1893-95, P- 61, in text 

 (Peru). 



Range: Peru and southeiin Ecuador. 



19: Peru (Macate 16, Otuzco i, Cajamarca i, and "Peru" i). 



Genus LEUCIPPUS" Bonap. 



Leucippus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., I, 1850, p. 73 (Type as fixed by Gray, 1855 — 

 Trochillus fallax Bourcier). 



Leucippus chionogaster chionogaster Tschtidi. Tschudi's White- 

 throat. 



Trochilus chionogaster Tschudi, Faun. Peru, Aves, 1884-86, p. 247, pi. 22, Pig. 2 



(Peru). 

 Trochilus leucogaster Tschudi (not T. leucogaster Gmel.), Arch, fur Naturg., I, 



1844, P- 297. 

 Leucippus chionogaster Gould, Mon. Trochil., pt. 5, 1855, pi. 290; Elliot, 



Syn. Trcohil., 1879, p. 199; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, 



p. 200. 



Range: Peru and Bolivia. 

 I : Bolivia. 



'^Patagona gigas peruviana Boucard: Peruvian specimens average decidedly 

 larger than those from Chile. Attention has been called to the deeper rufous colora- 

 tion of the under parts, but which does not seem to be constant, the chief diflFerence 

 being one of size. 



'' Prof. Ridgway considers that chionogaster (Tschudi), pallidus Taczanowski 

 and viridicauda Sclater and Salvin, should be excluded from this genus and 

 placed in the Genus Talaphorus Mulsant (cf. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 50, 

 V, 191 1, p. 305, footnote). 



