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*Helianthea bonaparti (Boiss.). Bonaparte's Star-frontlet. 



Ornismya botiaparti Boissonneau, Rev. Zool., 1840, p. 6 (Bogota). 



Trochilus aurogastier, Frazer, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840, p. 16. 



Helianthea bonapartei Gould, Mon. Trochil., IV, 1854, pi. 236; Elliot, Syn. 



Trochil., 1879, p. 295; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 124; 



Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1917, p. 297 (El Pinon, eastern 



Andes, Colombia). 



Range : Colombia. 

 7: ''Colombia." 



*Helianthea eos Gould. Golden Star-frontlet. 



Helianthea eos Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1848, p. 1 1 (Highlands of Colombia 

 and Venezuela); Id., Mon. Trochil., IV, 1855, pi. 237; Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 

 1879, P- T2; Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 128; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. 

 Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 125. 



Range : Venezuela. 



5: Venezuela (Merida). 



Helianthea phalerata (Bangs). ^ Santa Marta Star-frontlet. 



Leucuria phalerata^ Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1898, p. 174 (Macotama, 



Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta). 

 Helianthea phalerata Brabourne and Chubb, Bds. S. Am., I, 1912, p. 128. 



Range: Northern Colombia. 



Helianthea volifer (Gould). Violet-throated Star-frontlet. 



Trochilus volifer Gould, Proc, Zool. Soc. Lond., 1846, p. 87 (Bolivia). 

 Helianthea volifera Bonaparte, Rev. Zool., 1854, p. 251; Gould, Mon. Trochil., 



IV, 1855, pi. 239; Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 73; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. 



Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 126. 



Range: Bolivia. 



*Helianthea osculans Gould. Buff-tailed Star-frontlet. 



Helianthea osculans Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, p. 503 (Ecachupata and 

 Huasampilla, Peru); Sharpe in Gould's Mon. Trochil., 1887, pi. 18; Salvin, 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 127; Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, 

 p. 129. 



Range: Southern Peru. 



2: Peru (Limbain, Carabayo). 



^Helianthea phalerata (Bangs): "Forehead, crown and lores very brilliant 

 metallic blue, with, in some lights, green reflections; auriculars, back and wing coverts 

 dark grass green, in some lights quite dusky or cervix and upper back; chin dark 

 grass green with slight metallic reflections; throat metallic violet; breast metallic sea 

 green; abdomen shining grass green; wings purplish brown; feathers of tarsi, upper 

 and under tail coverts and tail, including shafts of feathers, pure white." (Bangs, 

 I.e.). 



*> Leucuria new Genus described by Bangs (I.e.) with phalerata as the type. 



