248 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. XIII. 



Diphlogaena iris buckleyi Berlepsch, Ibis, 1887, p. 295 (Ecuador); Hartert, 



Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 135. 

 Range: Northwest Bolivia, northern Peru and Ecuador. 

 4: "Ecuador" 3; Peru (Molinopampa i). 



*Diphogena hespenis Gould. Ecuadorian Rainbow. 



Diphogena hesperus Gould, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., XV, 1855, p. 129 (Ecuador); 



Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, p. 326 (Mindo, western 



Ecuador). 

 Diphlogaena hesperus Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 70; Sharpe in Gould's Mon. 



Trochil. Suppl., 1885, pi. 16; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 122. 



Range: Ecuador, 

 i: "Ecuador." 



Diphogena aurora (Gould). Gould's Rainbow. 



Helianthea aurora Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1853, p. 61 (between lUimani 



and Sorata, Bolivia). 

 Diphogena aurora Gould, Mon. Trochil., IV, 1861, pi. 248. 

 Diphlogaena aurora Sharpe in Gould's Mon. Trochil. Suppl., 1885, pi. 17; Salvin, 



Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 122. 

 Coeligena warszewizii Reichenbach, Aufz. d. Col., p. 23. 

 Diphlogaena warszewiezi Taczanowski, Om. Perou, I, 1884, p. 383. 



Range: Northern Bolivia and eastern Peru. 



Diphogena eva* (Salvin). Peruvian Rainbow. 



Diphogaena eva Salvin, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, VI, 1897, p. 30 (Suecha, Caja- 

 marca, northern Peru); Id., Ibis, 1897, p. 264 (reprint); Hartert, Das 

 Tierreich, 1900, p. 135. 



Range: Northern Peru. 



Genus LAFRESNAYA Bonaparte 



Lafresnaya Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XXX, 1850, p. 380 (Type Trochilus 

 flavicaudatus Eraser = 7^. lafresnayi Boissonneau). 



*Lafresnaya lafresnayi (Boiss.). Buff-tailed Velvet-breast. 



Trochilus lafresnayi Boissonneau, Rev. Zool., 1840, p. 8 (Bogota). 



Trochilus flavicaudatus Eraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840, p. 18 (Colombia). 



Lafresnaya flavicaudata Bonaparte, Consp. Av., 1850, p. 68; Gould, Mon. 



Trochil., II, 1857, pi. 85; Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 44. 

 L[afresnayea\ lafresnayei Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 136. 

 Lafresnayea lafresnayi Chapman, Bvdl. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1917, p. 298 



(Rio Toche; Chipaque; etc., central and eastern Andes, Colombia). 



Range : Colombia. 

 5: "Colombia." 



» Diphogena eva (Salvin) : Resembles D. hesperus, but the back of the neck dark 

 red (not black) ; under tail coverts paler. 



