igiS. Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory. 255 



Vestipedes vestitus smaragdinipectus Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 

 1902, p. 330 (Papallacta, eastern Ecuador); Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., 

 XXXVI, 1917, p. 300 (Almaguer, Colombia, near Ecuadorian boundary). 



Range: Ecuador and extreme southern Colombia (Almaguer). 

 I : "Ecuador." 



Vestipedes parartiillo* Chapman. Paramo Puff-leg. 



Vestipedes paramillo Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1917, p. 301 

 (Paramillo, 12,500 ft., western Andes, Colombia). 



Range: Colombia (Paramo Zone at northern end of the western 

 Andes) . 



Vestipedes ventralis Salvin. Amethyst- vented Puff-leg. 



Eriocnemis ventralis Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 364, pi. IX, 

 Fig. 2 (Colombia; Bogota?). 



Range : Colombia. 



*Vestipedes godini (Bourcier). Godin's Puff-leg. 



Trochilus godini Bourcier, Compt. Rend., XXXII, 1851, p. 186 (Ecuador). 

 Eriocnemis godini Gould, Mon. Trochil., IV, 1861, pi. 277; Elliot, Ibis, 1872, 



p. 295; Id., Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 193; Hartert, Ibis, 1897, p. 432, in text; 



Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 365. 



Range: Ecuador and Colombia. 

 i: ''Ecuador." 



*Vestipedes cupreoventris (Fraser). Coppery- vented Puff-leg. 



Trochilus cupreoventris Eraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840, p. 15 (Colombia). 

 Eriocnemis cupreoventris Gould, Mon. Trochil., IV, 1853, pis. 270-271; Elliot, 



Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 192; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 367. 

 (?) Eriocnemis dyselius Elliot,*' Ibis, 1872, p. 294; Id., Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 194; 



Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 368, pi. IX, Fig. i. 

 (?) Eripous simplex Gould," Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1849, p. 96 (Colombia). 

 (?) Eriocnemis simplex Gould, Mon. Trochil., IV, 1852, pi. 271. 

 Eriocnemis aurea Meyer,<i Auk, 1890, p. 315 (Colombia). 

 Range : Colombia and Venezuela. 

 7: Venezuela (near Merida). 



* Vestipedes paramillo Chapman: Related to V. v. smaragdinipectus (Gould), but 

 male with purple throat patch smaller and triangular in shape (as in V. nigrivestris) 

 and entirely surrounded by glittering emerald green; upper parts greener, more 

 uniform and less coppery; rump slightly bluer. Wing, 56.6; tail, 39.5; bill, 17.5 

 (average measurements). 



^ Supposed to be a melanism of V. cupreoventris. 



" Supposed to be abnormal phase of plumage of V. cupreoventris. A specimen 

 (No. 46251) in the Field Museum collection (labelled by Boucard, dyselius) is 

 evidently albinistic. 



<*£. aurea Meyer = E. cupreoventris, ?; cf. Hartert, Ibis, 1897, p. 433, in text; 

 Id., Nov. Zool., IV, 1897, in text (crit.). 



