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*Boissonneaua flavescens flavescens (Loddiges). Yellow-fronted 

 Coronet. 



Trochilus flavescens Loddiges, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1832, p. 7 (Popayan). 



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



Panoplites flavescens Gould, Mon. Trochil., II, 1854, pi. iii; Elliot, Syn. 

 Trochil., 1879, p. 54; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 344. 



Boissonneaua flavescens Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 142. 



Boissonneau flavescens flavescens Hellmayr, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911, p. 1185 

 (Tatama Mountain, 8000 ft.); Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXVI, 1917, 

 p. 300, crit. (Cocal; La Florida; Laguneta; El Roble; El Pinon, etc., Colom- 

 bia). 



Range: Andes of Colombia and Western Venezuela. 

 9: Venezuela (near Merida) 3; "Colombia" 6. 



♦Boissonneaua flavescens tinochlora* Oberholser. Western Yellow- 

 fronted Coronet. 



Boissonneaua flavescens tinochlora Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 

 1902, p. 329 (west side of Corazon, Ecuador). 



Range: Ecuador. 



2: Ecuador (Gualea i, "Ecuador" i). 



Genus VESTIPEDES Lesson.'' 



Vestipedes Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, Ser. 2, VIII, 1843, p. 756 (Type 



Ornismya vestita). 

 Eriocnemis Reichenbach, Syst. Av. Aufz. d. Col., 1849, pi. XL (Type 0. vestita 



Lesson). 



*Vestipedes luciani (Bourcier). Boquet's Puff-leg. 



Trochilus luciani Bourcier, Ann. Soc. Phys. & Nat. Lyon, VII, 1847, p. 324 



(Guaca). 

 Eriocnemis luciani Gould, Mon. Trochil., IV, 1853, pi. 273; Elliot, Syn. 



Trochil., 1879, p. 192; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 366 



(Intac; Pichincha; Quito; San Rafael, Ecuador); Hartert and Hartert, 



Nov. Zool., I, 1894, p. 60 (near Cueuta, Ecuador). 

 Vestipedes luciani Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, p. 329 



(Mojanda; Padregal; Corazon; Pichincha, etc., Ecuador). 



Range: Ecuador. 

 2: "Ecuador." 



" Boissonneaua flavescens tinochlora Oberholser: Differs from B. f. flavescens 

 in the much broader green tips of the tail feathers, particularly on the inner webs of 

 the two outer pairs; wing quills darker and more purplish; crissum and buflfy portions 

 of the tail darker. Specimens recorded from Corazon, Pichincha, and Canzacota, 

 western Ecuador (Oberholser, I.e.). 



*> Cf. Richmond, Auk, 1902, p. 83. 



