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



Docimastes ensiferus Gould, Mon. Trochil., IV, 1849, pi. 233; Salvin, Cat. Bds. 



Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 315. 

 Ensifera ensifera ensifera Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1917, 



p. 299 (Almager; Laguneta; El Roble, Colombia; Cerro Munchique ?).* 



Range: Colombia and Venezuela. 



4: Colombia (Bogota i, "Colombia" 3). 



Ensifera ensifera schliephackei'' (Heine). Ecuadorian Sword-billed 

 Hummingbird. 



Docimastes schliephackei Heine, Joum. fur. Ornith., 1863, p. 215 (Ecuador). 

 Docimastes ensifer schliephacki Berlepsch and Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1884, p. 304. 

 Ensifera ensifera schliephacki Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, 



p. 299-327, crit. (PapaUacta and Pichincha, Ecuador). 



Range: Ecuador and northern Peru. 



Genus PTEROPHANES Gould 



Pterophanes Gould, Mon. Trochil., Ill, 1849, subpl. 178 (Type Ornismya tem- 

 mincki Boiss.). 



*Pterophanes tenunincki {Boissonneau). Temminck's Sapphire- wing. 



Ornismya temmincki Boissonneau, Rev. Zool., 1839, p. 354 (Bogota). 

 Pterophanes temmincki Gould, Mon. Trochil., Ill, 1849, pi. 178; Elliot, Syn. 



Trochil., 1879, p. 66; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 118; 



Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, p. 328 (Pichincha and 



Corazon, Ecuador); Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1917, p. 299 



(Santa Isabel, 12,700 ft. Alt., Colombia). 



Range: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. 

 5: Colombia 3; Ecuador i; Bolivia i. 



Genus AGLAEACTIS Gould 



Aglaeactis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1848, p. 11 (Type Trochilus cuprei- 

 pennis Bourcier). 



*Aglaeactis cupripennis cupreipennis {Bourcier and Mulsant). Shining 

 Sunbeam. 



Trochilus cupripennis Bourcier and Mulsant, Ann. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, VI, 



1843, p. 46 (Colombia). 

 Aglaeactis cupreipennis Gould, Mon. Trochil., Ill, 1856, pi. 179; Elliot, Syn. 



Trochil., 1879, p. 186; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 350. 



' Possibly E. s. schliephackei; cf. Chapman, I.e. 



'' Ensifera ensifera schliephackei (Heine) : Similar to E. e. ensifera, but bill 

 longer. 



