igiS. Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory. 261 



Ocreatus addae (Bourcier). Red-booted Racket-tail. 



Trochilus addae Bourcier, Rev. Zool., 1846, p. 312 (Bolivia). 

 Spathura rufocaligata Gould, Mon. Trochil., Ill, 1849, pi. 165. 

 Steganura addae Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 143. 

 Spathura addae Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 378. 

 0[creatus] addae Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 151. 



Range: Bolivia. 



Ocreatus annae'^ {Berlep. and Stolz.). Anna's Racket-tail. 



Spathura annae Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Ibis, 1894, p. 398 (Chanchamayo, 

 Peru); Id., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1892, p. 25 (La Gloria; Garita del Sol; 

 Vitoc, Peru). 



0[creatus] annae Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 152. 



Range: Central Peru. 



Genus UROSTICTE Gould. 



Urosticte Gould, Mon. Trochil., Ill, 1853, pi. 190; Id., Introd. Trochil., p. no 

 (Type Trochilus benjamini Bourcier). 



*Urosticte benjamini benjamini (Bourcier). White-tip. 



Trochilus benjamini Bourcier, Comp. Rend., XXXII, 1851 , p. 187 (near Gualea . 



western Ecuador). 

 Urosticte benjamini Gould, Mon. Trochil., Ill, 1853, pi. 190; Elliot, Syn. 



Trochil., 1879, p. 92; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 167; 



Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, p. 332 (Gualea and 



San Domingo, western Ecuador). 

 Urosticte benjamini benjamini Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1917, 



p. 303 (Ricaurte, Colombia). 



Range: Ecuador; southern Colombia? 

 3: "Ecuador." 



Urosticte benjamini rostrata'' Hellmayr. Large-billed White-tip. 



Urosticte benjamini rostrata Hellmayr, Verh. Ornith. Gesell. Bayern, XII, 1915, 

 p. 125 (San Juan River, western Colombia, alt. 4600 ft.). 



Range: Western Colombia. 



* Ocreatus annae (Berlep. and Stolz.): Resembles O. addae from Bolivia but 

 differs in the complete absence of white at the base of the feathers of the lower neck 

 and breast; the under tail coverts not bordered with whitish rufous and the external 

 rectrices generally longer but with smaller spatules. 



*» Urosticte benjamini rostrata Hellmayr: Very similar to U. b. benjamini, but 

 with a duller violet (less rufous) throat spot and a much longer and thicker bill. 

 Wing, 52; tail, 36; bill, 24 mm. (immature male). 



