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Genus CALOTHORAX Gray. 



Calothorax Gray, List. Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 13 (Type Cyanthus lucifer Swainson). 



♦Calothorax lucifer (Swains.). Lucifer Hummingbird. 



Cyanthus lucifer Swainson, Philos. Mag. N. S., I, 1827, p. 442 (Temascaltepec, 



Mexico). 

 Calothorax lucifer Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, p. 288; Elliot, Syn. 



Trochil., 1879, p. 118; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 300; 



RiDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 1911, p. 652. 

 Calothorax cyanopogon Gould, Mon. TrocM., Ill, 1861, pi. 143. 



Range: Whole of Mexico and adjacent portions of United States 

 (southern Arizona and southwestern Texas). 

 3: "Mexico." 



*Calothorax pulcher (Gould). Beautiful Hummingbird. 



Calothorax pulchra Gould, Ann & Mag. Nat. Hist., IV, 1859, p. 97 (Oaxaca, 

 Mexico); Id. Mon. Trochil., Ill, 1861, pi. 144; Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, 

 p. 118; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 391. 



C[alothorax] pulcher Heine, Joum. fur Omith., 1863, p. 207; Hartert, Das 

 Tierreich, 1900, p. 194. 



Calothorax pulcher Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 1911, p. 655. 



Range: Southern Mexico. 

 i: Mexico (Oaxaca). 



Genus MYRTIS Reichenbach. 



Myrtis (part) Reichenbach, Aufz. d. Col., 1854, p. 13 (Type Ornismya fanny 

 Lesson). 



*Myrtis fanny (Lesson). Fanny's Wood-Star. 



Ornismya fanny Lesson, Ann. Sci, Nat. (2) IX, 1838, p. 170 (Peru). 

 Trochilus labrador Bourcier, Ann. Sci. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, II, 1839, p. 389. 

 Calothorax fanny Gould, Mon. Trochil., Ill, 1856, pi. 151. 

 Calothorax fanniae Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, p. 459. 

 Thaumastura francescae Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1869, p. 146. 

 Myrtis fanny Elliot, Syn. TrochU., 1879, p. 127; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 



XVI, 1892, p. 417; Taczanowski, Om. Perou, I, 1884, p. 312; Oberholser, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, p. 340 (Chillo and Chota Valleys, 



Ecuador). 

 Myrtis fannyae Simon, Nov. Zool., IX, 1902, p. 183 (Cojabamba; Huaylillas, 



Peru). 



Range: Peru and western Ecuador. 

 10: Peru (Macate) 7; "Ecuador" 3. 



Myrtis yarrelli (Bourcier). Yarrell's Wood Star. 



Trochilus yarrelli Bourcier, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, p. 45 ("Montevidio"). 

 Calothorax yarrelli Gould, Mon. Trochil., Ill, 1852, pi. 152. 



