iQiS. Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory. 221 



?Pinarolaema buckleyi Gould, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., V, 1880, p. 489 (Misqui, 



Bolivia). (Abnormal color phase?). 

 IColibri buckleyi Hartert, Das Tierreich, IX, 1900, p. 95; Oberholser, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, p. 320 (crit.). 

 Colibri iolata Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1917, p. 295 (N. W. 



Argentina). 



Range: Bolivia, northwestern Argentina, Peru, Ecuador and 

 western Colombia. 



15: Bolivia i; Peru (Macate 5, near Otuzco i, Rio Ucubamba i, 

 Cajamarca 3) ; Ecuador 4. 



*Colibri iolatus brevipennis sub. sp. nov.^ Venezuelan Violet-ear. 



Range: Venezuela and eastern Colombia. 



19: Venezuela (Caracas i, the type specimen; Merida 16); Colom- 

 bia (Bogota) 2. 



Colibri germana {Sahin and Godman). Guiana Violet-ear. 



Petasophora germana Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1884, p. 451 (Mt. Roraima); 

 Sharpe in Gould's Mon. Trochil., Suppl., 1887, pi. 11; Salvin, Cat. Bds, 

 Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 108; Chubb, Bds. Brit. Guiana, I, 1916, p. 406. 



Range: British Guiana. 



*Colibri serrirostris ( VieilL). Brazilian Violet-ear. 



Trochilus serrirostris Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., VII, 1817, p. 359 



("Bresil"). 

 Colibri crispus Spix, Av. Bras., I, p. 80, pi. 81. 

 Petasophora serrirostris Gould, Mon. Trochil., IV, 1853, pi. 223; Elliot, Syn. 



Trochil., 1879, p. 52; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 106. 

 Colibri serrirostris Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., XV, 1898, p. 77; Hartert and 



Venturi, Nov. Zool., XVI, 1909, p. 222. 



Range: Brazil and east Bolivia. 



4: Brazil (Chapada, Matto Grosso, 3; Bahia i). 



Genus AVOCETTULA Reichenbach. 



Avocettula Reichenbach, Av. Syst., 1849, pi. 30 (Type Trochilus recurvirostris 

 Swainson). 



*Avocettula recurvirostris (Swainson). Swainson's Hummingbird. 



Trochilus recurvirostris Swainson, Zool. lU., II, 1821, p. 105 (no type locality 

 given, Cayenne,'' by designation). 



* Colibri iolatus brevipennis subsp. nov. : Type from Caracas, Venezuela. Adult 

 male, No. 35217, Field Museum of Natural History. Collected by J. F. Ferry, 

 March 31, 1908. Similar to Colibri iolatus iolatus (Gould), but smaller; wing 

 shorter, and grayish white borders to under tail coverts decidedly narrower. Wing, 

 72; bill, 27 mm. 



*• Cayenne designated by Brabourne and Chubb, Bds. S. Am., I, 1912, p. 123. 



