igiS. Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory. 289 



Lucifer vesper Bonaparte, Rev. Zool., 1854, p. 257. 



Calliphlox (Rhodopis) vespera Reichenbach, Handb. Orn. Troch. Enum., 1855, 



p. 10, pi. 841, Figs. 4984-5- 

 Rhodopis vesper Gould, Mon. Trochil., Ill, 1856, pi. 154; Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 



1879, P- 115; Taczanowski, Orn. Perou, 1884, p. 316; Salvin, Cat. Bds. 



Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 379; Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 189. 



Range: Western Peru. 

 i: Peru(Iscay). 



Rhodopis atacamensis (Leybold). Atacama Hummingbird. 



Trochilus atacamensis Leybold, Ann. Univ. de Santiago, Chile, XXXII, 1869, 



p. 43 (Atacama, Chile). 

 Rhodopis atacamensis Martin's Joum. fur Ornith., 1875, p. 442; Elliot, Syn. 



Trochil., 1879, p. 116; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 380; 



Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 190. 



Range: Northern Chile and southern Peru. 



Genus HELIOMASTER Bonaparte. 



Heliomaster Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XXX, 1850, p. 382 (Type Ornismya 

 angelae Lesson = Trochilus furcifer Shaw). 



*Heliomaster furcifer (Shaw). Angela Star-throat. 



Trochilus furcifer Shaw, Gen. Zool., VIII, 181 1, p. 280 (Paraguay). 



Trochilus caudacutus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet., ed. 2, VII, 1817, p. 347. 



Heliomaster angeliae Gould, Mon. Trochil., IV, 1853, pi. 263. 



Ornismya angelae Lesson, 111. Zool., 1833, pi. 45, 46 and text. 



Trochilus regis Schreiber's, Isis, 1833, p. 534. 



Heliomaster furcifer Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 86; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. 

 Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 119; Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 190; Hellmayr 

 Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, p. 77 (Leopoldina, Goyaz, Brazil); Hartert and 

 Venturi, Nov. Zool., XVI, 1909, p. 223 (Tucuman; Mendoza, Argentine); 

 Grant, Ibis, 191 1, p. 317 (Puerto Asir, Paraguay). 



Range: Northern Argentine; Paraguay and Brazil north to Goyaz. 

 2: "Paraguay." 



*Heliomaster squamosus ( Temminck) . Stripe-breasted Star-throat. 



Trochilus squamosus Temminck, PI. Col., 1823, pi. 203, Fig. i (Brazil). 



Trochilus mesoleucus Temminck, PI. Col., 1824, pi. 317, Fig. i. 



Heliomaster mesoleucus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., I, 1850, p. 70; Goitld, Mon. 



Trochil., IV, 1853, pi. 262. 

 Lepidolarynx Gould, Introd. Trochil., 1854, p. 140; Elliot, Ssm. Trochil., 1879, 



p. 85; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 120. 

 Heliomaster squamosus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Heine, III, p. 53; Hartert, 



Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 191. 



Range: Southeastern Brazil. 



5: Brazil (Rio do Peixe, Bahia 2, "Bahia" 2), 



