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*Heliangelus viola Gould. Viola Sun Angel. 



Heliangelus viola Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1853, p. 61 (Banks of the 

 Maranon); Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, p. 334 (Papal- 

 lacta, eastern Ecuador and Pichincha, western Ecuador). 



Heliotrypha viola Gould, Mon. Trochil., IV, 1853, pi. 241 ; Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 

 1879, p. 87; Taczanowski, Orn. Perou, I, 1884, p. 379; Hartert, (E. & C.) 

 Nov. Zool., 1894, p. 50. 



Range: Ecuador and northern Peru, 

 i: "Ecuador." 



Heliangelus rothschildi* Boucard. Rothschild's Sun Angel. 



Heliangelus rothschildi Boucard, The Humming Bd., II, 1892, p. 77 (Bogota); 



Simon and Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, p. 5 (crit.); Hartert, Das 



Tierreich, 1900, p. 161. 

 (?) Aeronytnpha prosantis Oberholser, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVIII, 1905 



p. 162 (Colombia, Bogota ?).•* 



Range: Colombia. 



Heliangelus claudia" Hartert. Claudia's Sun Angel. 



Heliangelus claudia Hartert, Nov. Zool., II, 1895, p. 484 (Bogota); Id., IV, 



1897. P- 532. 

 H[eliangelus] claudia Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 161. 



Range : Colombia. 



Genus METALLURA Gould. 



Metallura Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, p. 94 (Type Trochilus opaca 



Licht.).<» 

 Lc/icflMda Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant., Ser. 2, VIII, Oct. 1843, p. 758 (Type 



Trochilus tyrianthinus Loddiges). 



» Heliangelus rothschildi Boucard: Upper parts, including tail, lustrous purple, 

 with brilliant spot on forehead; outermost rectrices slightly tipped with grayish 

 buff; throat brilliant coppery-gold with reddish reflections; sides of throat, black; 

 upper parts of breast, grayish buflf; lower breast and abdomen dark gray washed 

 with bronzy green; lower breast and abdomen dark gray washed with bronzy-green; 

 sides of breast and flanks purple; under tail coverts buffy- white with greenish line 

 in center of each feather; a white spot behind the eye; under surface of tail, bluish 

 purple; wings purplish brown; bill black. Wing, 66; lat. rectrices, 43.5; mid. rectrices, 

 36; bill, 14.5 mm. 



^ The type oi Aeronytnpha prosantis Oberholser (No. 11852, Field Museum of 

 Natural History) is in my opinion not fully adult and may be a female. It was 

 found among a lot of birds from Colombia collected by C. Balen (no date or defi- 

 nite locality). I have seen no females or immature males of H. rothschildi for 

 comparison and it may represent a distinct form of Heliangelus. Messrs. Simon and 

 Hellmayr (I.e.) believe it to be an immature H. rothschildi. 



" Heliangelus claudia Hartert: Back slightly glossed with purple; forehead with 

 purplish black spot; throat bluish hyacinth (somewhat like H. violicollis, but not so 

 deep and less violet); pectoral band whitish; under tail coverts white; abdomen 

 grayish black. Wing, 65; tail, 42; bill, 16 mm. 



dC/. Miller (W. de W.) Auk, 1913, p. 583. 



