Todd-Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 259 



These three individuals were taken in the scrub-growth around Rio 

 Hacha. Unlike most of the characteristic birds of this arid section, 

 the species does not appear to range into the valley of the Rio Ran- 

 cheria, at least to any great extent. 



204. Lepidopyga lilliae Stone. 



(?) Sapphironia caruleogularis (not Trochilus cceruleogularis Gould, 1850) 



Gould, Mon. Trochilidae, V, i860, text to pi. 346 ("Santa Marta"). — 



Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 378 (Cienaga). 

 (?) Lepidopyga caruleogularis Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 



1911, 539 (Cienaga, in range, ex Wyatt). 

 Lepidopyga lillice Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1917, 204 



(Punto Caiman; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia). 

 . — Cory, Field Mus. Z06I. Series, XIII, 1918, 181 (rel. orig. descr.; 



range) . 

 Sapphironia caruleigularis duchassaingi (not Trochilus duchassaingi Bour- 



cier) Simon, Cat. Fam. Trochilidfe, 1921, 299 (crit.). 



Two specimens : Punto Caiman. 



Two male hummingbirds collected by the junior author in the man- 

 groves at Punto Caiman on September 27 and 29, 1913, and sent to 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, proved to belong to 

 a very distinct species, and were accordingly described by Dr. Stone 

 under the above name, given in honor of his wife. They differ from 

 authentic specimens of L. cceruleogularis in having the entire under 

 parts (except the under tail-coverts) glittering blue, and seem to be 

 specifically distinct. It is probable that the examples of supposed 

 cceruleogularis to which Gould refers as having been received by Ver- 

 reaux " in tolerable abundance from Santa Martha '' were really of the 

 present form (it does not appear that Gould ever saw these birds him- 

 self). Very likely, too, Wyatt's record from Cienaga pertains to the 

 same form, since there is absolutely no satisfactory evidence going to 

 show that L. cceruleogularis ranges beyond the lower Atrato Valley 

 in Colombia. The known range of L. lillice is thus restricted to the 

 vicinity of the Cienaga Grande, east of the Magdalena River. 



Lepidopyga coeruleogulaiis (Gould). 



Thalucrania [sic] ccelina Bouecier, Rev. et Mag. Z06I., (2), VIII, 1856, 553 



("Santa Marta"; orig. descr.; type in coll. ?). 



Thalurania ccelina Gieeel, Thes. Orn., Ill, 1877, 616 (syn. ; ref. orig. descr'.). 

 Sapphironia ccelina Simon, Cat. Fam. Trochilidae, 1921, 299, part (ref. orig. 



descr.). 



