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remains to liis paper, alludes to the variability of the tail-markings, 

 yet the formal description (I. c. p. 456) of E. heterura clearly 

 refers to the birds afterwards separated as U. haroni, cfr. 

 especially the words : " tail olive-grey, in some instances tipped 

 with sullied white." 



The next available name for E. heterura Hart, (nee Gould) 

 seems to be E. salvini Gould, based upon specimens from Veragua 

 which I cannot satisfactorily distinguish from those taken in 

 W. Colombia and W. Ecuador. 



140. Florisuga mellivora mellivora Linn. 



Trochilus mellivorus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. x. p. 121 (1758 — ex 

 Edwards : Surinam). 



Florisuga mellivora Simon & Dalmas, Ornis, xi. p. 218 (Las 

 Cruces, West. Cordillera) ; Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 529 

 (Remedios). 



Nos. 2055, 2238. c5" ad., S imm. Noanama : 3.ix. ; Cajon, 

 R. Cajon: 3.xi.08.— Wing 66, 65; tail 38, 35; bill 18, 19mm. 



" Iris, feet, and bill black." 



We have also a number of skins obtained by the late J. H. 

 Batty on the Rio Zapota, in August and September 1898. 



F. mellivora is a wide-spread species. 



141. POLYERATA ROSENBERGI BouC. 



Polyerata rosenhergi Boucard, Genera of Humming Birds, p. 399 

 (end of 1895. — Rio Dagua, W. Colombia) : idem, ' The Humming 

 Bird,' V. Dec. 1895, p. 6. 



Nos. 2247, 2351. S 6 ad. Novita : 7, 28.xi. 08.— Wing 55, 

 56i ; tail 30, 34 ; bill 22, 20|. mm. 



No. 2551. c? ad. Juntas (Rio Tamana) : 20.ii.09.— Wing 57 ; 

 tail 32 ; bill 20 mm. 



No. 2570. S ad. Rio Condoto : 26.iii.09.— Wing 55 ; tail 

 311; bill 21mm. 



No. 2373. S imm. Novita : 5.xii.08.— Wing 55 ; tail 32 ; 

 bill 20 mm. 



No. 2255. $ ad. Novita : 9.xi.08.— Wing 50i ; tail 29 ; bill 

 21 mm. 



*' Iris, bill, and feet black." 



The original examples, obtained by Mr. Rosenberg in the same 

 district in 1894, were all more or less immature. The fine series 

 now forwarded by Mr. Palmer enables me to state that none of 

 the characters which served to distinguish the Ecuadorian race 

 P, r. reini * holds good, and I am afraid the latter name will have 

 to be placed as a synonym of P. rosenhergi. Thanks to the kind- 

 ness of Dr. von Lorenz, of the Vienna Museum, I have been able 

 to examine a series of seven specimens of the so-called reini : 

 2 c? J ad., 2 c? d imm., 3 ? $ , all from N.W. Ecuador f. The 



* Poli/erata reina Berlepsch, Oru. Monatsber. v. p. 58 (1897. — Western Ecuador). 

 t They are from the following localities : Carondelet (60 ft.), Bulun (60 ft.), San 

 Javier (60 ft.), Pacabilar (6Q ft.), Charco Kedoudo (160 ft.). 



