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Lafresnaya liriope" Bangs. Santa Marta Velvet-breast. 



Lafresnayea liriope Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXIII, 1910, p. 105 (Paramo 

 de Chiruqua, 1 1,000 ft. Alt.; Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia). 



Ranfye: Northern Colombia. 



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*Lafresnaya saul saul (Bourcier). Gray's Velvet-breast. 



Trochilus saul Bourcier, Rev. Zool., 1846, p. 309 (Vicinity of Quito). 



Lafresnaya saulae Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, 1850, p. 68. 



Lafresnaya gayi Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, 1850, p. 68; Gould, Mon. Trochil., 



II, 1857, pi. 86; Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 44; Allen, Bull. Am. Mus., 



XIII, 1900, p. 138 (San Miguel; Macatoma); Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 



XVI, 1892, p. 327, part. 

 Lafresnaya saul Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, p. 327 (Lloa; 



Pichincha; and Quito, Ecuador). 

 L[afresnayea] saul Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 136. 

 Lafresnayea saul saul Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1917, p. 299 



(Andes west of Popayan, Colombia). 



Range: Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador; northern Peru.'' 

 4: Venezuela (Merida) 2; "Ecuador" 2. 



Lafresnaya saul rectrirostris'' {Berlepsch and Stolzmann). White- 

 tailed Velvet-breast. 



Lafresnayea saul rectirostris Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1902, p. 24 (Maraynioc, central Peru). 

 [Lafresnayea] rectirostris Brabourne and Chubb, Bds. S. A., I, 1912, p. 131, 



No. 1270. 



Range: Central Peru. 



Genus ENSIFERA<i Lesson 



Ensifera Lesson, Echo de Monde Savant, Ser. 2, VIII, 1843, p. 734 (Type 



Ornismya ensifera Boissonneau) . 

 Docimastes Gould, Mon. Trochil., IV, 1849, pi. 233 (Type 0. ensifera). 



*Ensifera ensifera ensifera {Boissonneau). Sword-billed Humming- 

 bird. 

 Ornismya ensifera Boissonneau, Rev. Zool., 1839, p. 354 (Santa Fe de Bogota). 

 Trochilus derhianus Eraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840, p. 16 (Colombia). 



* Lafresnaya liriope Bangs: Bill less curved than in L. saul, but similar to that 

 of L. lafresnayi; central rectrices and longer upper tail coverts strong greenish 

 coppery (in marked contrast to the color of the back); rectrices (except the middle 

 pair) white below the dark tips as in L. saul. 



^ Berlepsch and Stolzmann (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1902, p. 24, in text) consider 

 a specimen from Cutervo, northern Peru, to represent L. saul saul. 



"Lafresnaya saul rectirostris Berlepsch and Stolzmann: Differs from L. saul 

 saul in having the bill shorter and the wings and tail longer. The green on the 

 throat, breast and sides of the body is clearer and more golden and the black of the 

 abdomen is less developed. 



^ cf. Richmond, Auk, 1902, p. 92. 



