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Metallura phoebe phoebe {Less, and Delatt.). Phoebe's Copper-tail. 

 Ornismya phoebe Lesson and Delattre, Rev. Zool., 1839, II, p. 17 (Andes of 



Peru). 

 Trochilus {Lampornis) opacus Lichtenstein in Tschudi, Arch, fur Naturg., 



1844, p. 98 (Peru). 

 Trochilus cupreicauda Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1846, p. 87. 

 Metallura cupreicauda Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, p. 94; Id., Mon. 



Trochil., Ill, 1859, pi. 191. 

 Metallura opaca Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 163; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. 



Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 150. 

 M[etallura] phoebe Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 162. 



Range: Southern Peru and Bolivia. 



*Metallura phoebe jelskii Cahanis. Jelski's Copper-tail. 



Metallura jelskii Cabanis, Journ. fur Ornith., 1874, p. 99 (central Peru); Elliot 



Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 164; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 151; 



Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 102. 

 Metallura phoebe jelskii Simon, Nov. Zool., IX, 1902, p. 181 (Prov. Otuzco and 



Prov. Cajabamba, Peru); Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1892, p. 26 (Tarma, Tambo de Aza, Peru). 



Range: Central Peru. 

 S: Peru (Cajamarca). 



Metallura primolma Bourcier. Ecuador Copper-tail. 



Metallura primolina Bourcier, Rev. Zool., 1852, p. 295 (Ecuador); Gould, 

 Mon. Trochil., Ill, 1861, pi. 194; Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1897, p. 165; Salvin, 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 1892, XVI, p. 154. 



Metallura primolii Sharpe, in Gould's Suppl. Mon. Trochil., 1887, pi. 45. 



Laticauda primolina Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, p. 334 

 (PapaUacta; Curiurcu; above Baeza, Ecuador). 



Range: Northern Ecuador. 



Metallura atrigularis^ Salvin. Black-throated Copper-tail, 



Metallura atrigularis Salvin, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, 1, 1893, p. XLIX (Ecuador); 

 Id., (Reprint) Ibis, 1893, P- 449; Hartert (E. & CI.); Nov. Zool., I, 1894, 

 p. 49, pi. IV, Figs. 1-2; Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 163. 



Range: Southern Ecuador. 



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Metallura eupogon Cabanis. Red-throated Copper-tail. 



Metallura eupogon Cabanis, Journ. fur Ornith., 1874, p. 97 (Maraynioc, Peru); 

 Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 164; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 

 1892, p. 155; Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 163. 



' Metallura atrigularis Salvin: (Male) upper parts bright bronzy green, show- 

 ing faint metallic blue tinge if viewed from behind; wing, deep purple brown; small 

 coverts on carpo-metacarpal joint, rufous; upper surface of tail, dark shining bronze- 

 green (purplish steel blue if viewed from behind) ; under parts, bright bronzy green 

 (metallic on throat and upper breast); middle of throat with large velvety black 

 patch (the feathers of the black patch with concealed chestnut buff bar and grayish 

 bases) ; under wing coverts bronzy green. The female resembles the male but lacks 

 the black on the throat where the feathers are marked with green and buff. 



