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(1280) Boissonneaua jardini {Bourc). 

 Trochilus jardinii BouRC, Compt. Rend., XXII, 1851, p. 187 (Nanegal?, Ec). 



Found by us only in the Western Andes where it is apparently rare. 

 Our two specimens indicate that it ranges from 1200 to 7200 ft. They 

 appear to be the first ones recorded from Colombia. The Novita Trail 

 specimen, while immature, has considerably more iridescent purple on the 

 throat than any of our Ecuadorian examples. 



Novita Trail (7200 ft.), 1; Buenavista, Narino, 1. 



(1282) Boissonneaua flavescens flavescens (Lodd.). 



Trochilus flavescens Lodd., P. Z. S., 1832, p. 7 (Popayan). 



Panoplites flavescens Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 376 (Oak forest, 7000-8000 ft.; Port- 

 rerras; between Cachiri and Cucuta Suratd); Sol. & Salv., P. Z. S., 1879, p. 529 

 (MedelUn). 



Boissonneaua flavescens flavescens Hellm., P. Z. S., 1911, p. 1185 (Tatamd Mt.). 



Occupies the upperpart of the Subtropical Zone and lower border of the 

 Temperate Zone in all three ranges. 



Seventeen topotypical specimens from the Andes west of Popayan are 

 intermediate between 'Bogota' birds and Ecuadorian specimens {B. f. 

 tinochlora Oberh.). They are, however, nearer to Bogota birds, in which the 

 greenish tip to the outer tail-feathers is reduced to the minimum, than they 

 are to tinochlora. In other words, as with Phaiolaima rvhinoides, West 

 Andean birds, evidently by pure parallelism, have departed from the 

 Ecuadorian type much as have the birds of the Eastern Andes, but in the 

 Western Andes the difPerentiation has not yet been carried so far as it has 

 in the Eastern Andes. 



Cocal, 1; La Florida, 3; Cerro Munchique, 14; Almaguer, 2; Laguneta, 

 2; Andalucia, 1; El Roble, 2; El Pinon, 1. 



(1288) Vestipedes vestitus vestitus (Less.). 



Omismya vestita Less., Rev. Zool. 1838, p. 314 (Bogotd). 



Temperate and Paramo Zones of the Eastern Andes. 

 El Pinon, 4; Tocaimito, 2; Chipaque, 8. 



(1289) Vestipedes vestitus smaragdinipectus (Gould). 



,Eriocnemis smaragdinipectus Gotjld, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 4, 1868, 

 p. 322 (Quito). 



