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



Genus CYANOPHAIA Relchenbach. 



Cyanophaia Reichenbach, Atafz. der Col., 1854, p. 10 (Type as fixed by Gray, 

 1855, Trochilus bicolor Gmelin.) 



♦Cyanophaia bicolor Gmelin. Wagler's Wood Nymph. 



Trochilus bicolor Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1788, p. 496 ("Guadeloupe," probably 

 should be Dominica); Audubert and Vieillot, Ois. Doras, I, 1801, p. 75, 



pl. 36. 



Thalurania bicolor Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 102; Cory, Auk, III, 1886, 

 p. 353; Id., Bds. West Indies, 1889, p. 148; Id., Cat. W. I. Bds., 1892, pp. 106- 

 133; Sal YIN, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 86; Simon, and Hellmayr 

 Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, p. 7. 



Thalurania wagleri Gould, Mon. Trochil., II, 1875, pl. 109; Salvin and Elliot, 

 Ibis, 1873, p. 360 (Brazil, crit.). 



7 Thalurania belli H. Verrill addition to the Avifauna of Dominica, date ?, 

 p. ?» 



Cyanophaia bicolor Ridgway, Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 191 1, p. 529. 



Range: Dominica and Martinique, Lesser Antilles, Guadeloupe? 

 ti4: Dominica 5; Martinique 9. 



Cyanophaia scapulata (Gould). Black-bellied Wood Nymph. 



Eucephala scapulata Gould, Introd. Trochil., 1861, p. 166 (" Oyopoc" Cayenne?) ; 

 Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, P- 229; Salyin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, 



P- 343- 



Thalurania scapulata Hellmayr and Simon, Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, p. 7; Bra- 

 bourne and Chubb, Bds. S. Am., I, 1912, p. 120, No. 1161. 



Cyanophaia scapulata Ridgway, BuU. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 1911, p. 528, 

 in key. 



Range: French Guiana. 

 Cyanophaia lerchi {Muls. and Verr.^). Lerch's Wood Nymph. 



Thalurania lerchi Mulsant and Verreaux, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s. XVIII, 

 1872, p. 108 (Colombia); Simon and Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, 

 pp. 8-9 (crit.). 



Timolia lerchi Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 232. 



Agyrtria tenelrosa Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, X, 1899, p. XV. 



Cyanophaia lerchi Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 1911, p. 528, in 

 key. 



Range: Colombia. 



* Thalurania belli H. Verrill: Described in a small pamphlet without date, 

 pagination, or place of publication. If the description of the type specimen is 

 correct, the bird is probably a freak or "sport" of C. bicolor. 



*> Cyanophaia lerchi (MuLS. & Verr.): Omitted by Braboume & Chubb, in Bds. 

 S. Am., I, 1912. The type is now in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York. 



