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Hylocharis humboldti {Bourc. and Muls.) Humboldt's Sapphire. 

 Trochilus humboldti Bourcier and Mulsant, Ann. Sci. Phys. et Nat. Lyon (2) 



IV, 1852, p. 142 (River Mira, Esmeraldas). 

 Chrys'uronia humboldti Gould, Mon. Trochil., V, (1859) pl- 327; Elliot, Syn. 



TrochiL, 1879, p. 168; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 250. 

 Eucephala humboldti Simon and Delmas, Ornis, 1901, p. 210; Brabourne and 



Chubb, Bds. S. Am., I, 1912, p. 116. 

 Hylocharis humboldti Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 19 17. P- 289 



(Buenaventura; Tumaco, Colombia). 

 Range: Western Ecuador and southwest Colombia. 

 i: Ecuador (Veguina). 



♦Hylocharis ruficoUis ruficoUis (Vieillot) . Rufous-throated Sapphire. 

 Trochilus ruficoUis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., VII, 1817, p. 362 (Para- 

 guay). 

 Chrysuronia chrysura Gould, Mon. TrochiL, V (May, i860), p. 329. 

 Chrysuronia ruficoUis Grant, Ibis, 191 1, P- 3i7; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 



XVI, 1892, p. 251. 

 Hylocharis ruficoUis Hartert and Venturi, Nov. Zool., XVI, 1909, P- 222; 



Chubb, Ibis, 1910, p. 268. 



Range: Paraguay, Northern Argentina and southeastern Brazil to 



Rio Grande do Sol and Santa Catharina. 



♦Hylocharis ruficollis maxwelli^ Hartert. Maxwell's Sapphire. 



Hylocharis ruficoUis maxwelli Hartert, Nov. Zool., V, 1898, p. 519 (near Rio 

 Beni, eastern Bolivia); Simon, Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat., 1912, No. 8, p. 501 

 (Cambara, Matto Grosso); Ihering, Revis, Mus., Paulista, VI, 1904, P- 356 

 (Sao Paulo). 

 Range: Eastern Bolivia and central and south central Brazil 

 (west Sao Paulo, Matto Grosso and Minas Geraes). 

 2: "Bolivia." 



♦Hylocharis cyanus cyanus ( Vieillot). White-throated Sapphire. 

 Trochilus cyanus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXIII, 1818, p. 426 



("Bresil"). 

 Hylocharis cyanea Gould, Mon. TrochiL, V (May, 1852), pL 344; Elliot, Syn. 



TrochiL, 1879, p. 237; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 246; 



Hartert, Nov. Zool., V, 1898, p. 520. 

 Hylocharis cyanus cyanus Hellmayr, Verh. der Ornith. Gesell. Bayern, XII, 



1915. P- 152. 



Range: Coast region of eastern Brazil (Bahia to S. Paulo). 

 5: Brazil (Bahia 4, "Brazil" i). 



•^Hylocharis ruficolis maxwelli Hartert: Similar to H. r. ruficollis (VieU.), but size 

 smaller and bill much shorter. 



b Hylocharis cyanus cyanus (Vieillot): Rump with strong coppery gloss; abdo- 

 men mixed with gray; back lighter green. 



