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(1255) Helianthea coeligena columbiana (Elliot). 



Lampropygia columbiana Elliot, Ibis, 1876, p. 57 (vicinity of Bogotd). 

 Lampropygia coeligena Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 378 (Canuto, 5000-6000 ft.). 



Inhabits the Subtropical Zone in the Eastern Andes and eastern slope 

 of the Central Andes. The differences between this bird, and our specimens 

 of coeligena, are so pronounced as to suggest the specific distinctness of the 

 Colombian and Venezuelan forms. In western Colombia columbiana is 

 represented by a well-marked race which I describe below. 



El Eden, 3; LaCandela, 1; Andalucia, 2; Fusugasuga, 1. 



(1255a) Helianthea coeligena ferruginea subsp. nov. 



Lampropygia columbiana Sol. & Salv., {nee Elliot), P. Z. S., 1879, p. 530 (Fron- 

 tino; Sta Elena; Medellin). 



Homophania coeligena colombiana Simon & Dalmas {nee Elliot), Ornis, XI, 1901, 

 p. 222 (La Tigra; Las Cruces). 



Char, subsp. — Similar to Helianthea coeligena columbiana (Elliot) but underparts 

 more strongly washed with tawny, the sides of the throat from the base of the bill 

 to the breast tawny or russet; the throat with larger spots and less white, the whitish 

 throat-area more sharply defined from the tawny or russet of the breast; the rump 

 averaging greener. 



Type.— No. 108816, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., d' ad., San Antonio, alt. 6600 ft., 

 Western Andes, above Cali, Colombia; March 30, 1911; F. M. Chapman. 



Inhabits the Subtropical Zone of the Western Andes and of the Central 

 Andes as far east as the Rio Toche at 6800 feet. The strongly marked 

 characters of this form are well shown by all of our thirty-one specimens 

 from the Western Andes and western slope of the Central Andes. Rio 

 Toche specimens show some approach to columbiana and those taken at El 

 Eden, above Ibagiie are clearly to be referred to that form. 



San Antonio, 14; Cerro Munchique, 4; Miraflores, 3; Salento, 2; Rio 

 Toche, 8. 



(1267) Lafresnayea lafresnayi (Boiss.). 

 Trochilus lafresnayi Boiss., Rev. ZooL, 1840, p. 8 (Bogotd,). 



Inhabits the Central and Eastern Andes ranging from the Subtropical 

 upward to the Temperate Zone. 



Santa Isabel, 1; Rio Toche, 2; El Eden, 1; El Roble, 1; El Pinon, 1; 

 Chipaque, 1. 



