284 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. XIII. 

 *Psalidoprymna gouldii gracilis {Gould) .^ Graceful Train-bearer. 



Trochilus (Lesbia) gracilis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1846, p. 86 ("Peru" = 



Ecuador). 

 Lesbia gouldi gracilis Berlepsch and Hartert, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1884, 



p. 305 (Cechce, western Ecuador); Hartert (E. & CI.), Nov. Zool., I, 1894, 



p. 48. 

 Psalidoprymna gouldi gracilis Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 183; Ober- 



HOLSER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, p. 337 (Papallacta; Pichincha; 



Corazon, Ecuador). 



Range: Ecuador, 

 i: "Peru"? 



Psalidoprymna gouldii chlonira'' (Gould). Peruvian Train-bearer. 



Lesbia chlorura Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, p. 504 (Peru?). 

 Psalidoprymna chlorura Hartert, Nov. Zool., VI, 1899, P- 75. in text. 

 Psalidoprymna gouldi chlorura Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 183. 



Range: Northern Peru. 



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Genus ZODALIA Mulsant & Verreaux. 



Zodalia Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, III, 1876-77, p. 281 

 (Type Lesbia ortoni Lawrence). 



Zodalia glyceria Gould. Purple-tailed Comet. 



Comeles ? glyceria Gould, Mon. Trochil., Ill, 1858, pi. 176 (Popayan). 

 Cometes mossiae (nom. nud.) Gould, Rept. Brit. Assn., 1853, p. 68. 

 Zodalia glyceria Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 150; Salvin, Cat. Eds. Brit. 

 Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 141; Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 183. 



Range: Colombia. 



Zodalia ortoni (Lawr.). Orton's Comet. 



Lesbia ortoni Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. Y., IX, 1870, p. 269 (Quito 



Valley). 

 Zodalia ortoni Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 149; Gould, Mon. Trochil., Suppl. 



1880, pi. 38; Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 184. 



Range: Ecuador. 



» Psalidoprymna gouldii gracilis (Gould) : Differs from P. g. gouldii in being 

 smaller and under tail coverts less green, being dull buff, with green spot in the 

 middle. 



'' Psalidoprymna gouldii chlorura (Gould) : Differs from P. g. gracilis in having 

 the bill and tail somewhat longer and general plumage more golden. Wing, 2 

 inches; bill, ^ inch (original measurements given by Gould, I.e.). 



Note. — I have not seen specimens of this bird, C. B. C. 



