2o8 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. XIII. 



Genus PTOCHOPTERA Elliot. 



Ptochoptera Elliot, Ibis, 1874, p. 261 {Chlorestes iolaema Reichenbach). 



Ptochoptera iolaema {Reich.). Natterer's Emerald. 



{Chlorestes) Riccordia iolaema Reichenbach, Joum. fur Ornith., Aufz. d. Col., 



1854, p. 8 (Ypanema); Id., Trochil., Enum., p. 4, pi. 705. 

 Ptochoptera iolaema Elliott Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 130; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. 



Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 389. 



Range: Eastern Brazil. 



Genus RICCORDIA Reichenbach. 



Riccordia Reichenbach, Aufz. de Col., 1854, p. 8 (Type Riccordia raymondi 

 K&.ch. = Trochilus ricordii Gervaise). 



*Riccordia ricordii ricordii (Gervaise). Ricord's Emerald. 



Ornismya ricordii Gervaise, Mag. de Zool., 1835, cl. II, pis. 42-43 (Santiago, 



Cuba). 

 Sporadinus ricordi Gould, Mon. Trochil., V, i860, pi. 348; Salvin, Cat. Bds. 



Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 57, part. 

 Sporadinus riccordi Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 241, part; Cory, Auk, 1886, 



p. 358, part; Id., Bds. West Indies, 1889, p. 153, part. 

 Sporadinus ricordii ricordii Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 19 11, 



P- 243- 

 Range: Islands of Cuba. 

 5: Cuba (Santiago de los Banos 2, "Cuba*' 3). 



*Riccordia ricordii aeneoviridis^ {Palmer and Riley). Bah am an 

 Emerald. 



Riccordia aeneoviridis Palmer and Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XV, 1902, 



p. 34 (Abaco I., Bahamas); Allen (G. M.) Auk, 1905, p. 127. 

 Sporadinus ricordi Cory, Bds. Bahama Is., 1880, p. 11 (Andros Is.); Id., Bds. 



West Indies, 1889, p. 153, part (Bahamas); Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 



XVI, 1892, p. 57, part (Bahamas). 

 Riccordia ricordii aeneoviridis Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 191 1, 



P- 544- 

 Range: Bahama Islands (Islands of Abaco, Little Abaco, Andros, 

 Great Bahama and Elbow Key). 



t32: Bahama Islands (Andros I. 8, Abaco I. 16, Great Bahama 

 1.8). 



•This would stand as Riccordia ricordii bracei Lawrence if a race occurs on 

 New Providence, I., and proves to be the same as those from Andros, Great Bahama, 

 Abaco, etc. 



