i86 Field Museum of Natural History— Zoology, Vol. XIII. 

 Saucerottia inculta Elliots Elliot's Humming Bird. 



Eriocnemis inculius Elliot, Auk, 1889, p. 210 (Bogota?). 

 Saucerottia inculta Hartert, Nov. Zool., IV, 1897, p. 530; Brabourne and 

 Chubb, Bds. S. Am., I, 1912, p. 115, No. 1103. 



Range: Colombia? 



*Saucerottia cupreicauda {Salvin and Godman). Copper-tailed Hum- 

 ming Bird. 

 Amazilia cupreicauda Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1884, p. 452 (Mt. Roraima, 

 British Guiana) ;Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 220; Sharpe, 

 Suppl. Gould's Mon. Trochil., 1887, pi. 56. 

 Saucerottia cupreicauda Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 191 1, p. 438, 

 in key; Chubb, Bds. Brit. Guiana, I, 1916, p. 398. 



Range: British Guiana. 



2: British Guiana (Mt. Roraima). 



*Saucerottia niveoventer {Gould). Snowy-breasted Humming Bird. 

 Trochilus niveoventer Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1850, p. 164 (near David, 



Veragua, Panama). 

 Erythronota niveiventris Gould, Mon. Trochil., V, 1858, pi. 319. 

 Amazilia niveiventris Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 222; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. 



Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 221. 

 Saucerottia niveoventer Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 191 1, p. 441. 



Range: Panama and northern Colombia (Boqueron). 

 3: Panama. 



*Saucerottia edwardi {Delattre and Bourcier) . Edward's Humming Bird. 



Trochilus edwardi Delattre and Bouricer, Rev. Zool., 1846, p. 308 (Panama). 

 Erythronota edwardi Gould, Mon. Trochil., V, 1858, pi. 318. 

 Amazilia edwardi Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 221. 

 Saucerottia edwardi Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 191 1, p. 443. 



Range: Panama and northwestern Ecuador (Santo Domingo). 

 3: Panama (Veragua). 



*Saucerottia cyanura cyanura {Gould). Blue-tailed Humming Bird. 



Amazilia cyanura Gould, Mon. Trochil., pt. 18, Sept., 1859, (Vol. V, 1861) 

 pi. 315 (Realejo, Nicaragua); Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 212, 

 part. 



Saucerottia cyanura impatiens Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., VI, 1910, p. 526. 



" Saucerottia inculta Elliot: Crown, upper parts, of body, and upper tail 

 coverts bluish black; feathers of rump and upper tail coverts margined with rufous 

 (probably due to immaturity); throat and center of breast dull lead color; feathers of 

 throat edged with white; wings deep purple; sides of breast bluish black; flank black- 

 ish; abdomen white, spotted with brown; tail steel blue; feathers of under tail coverts 

 gray in center, glossed with green and edged with white; thigh tufts wliite; bill black 

 with base of mandible flesh color. Wing, about 55; tail, about 38; bill, 19 mm. 

 M. Simon (Cat. Trochil., 1897, P- 13) believes this bird to be a melanistic variety of 

 S. viridigaster (Bourcier). 



