408 NOVITATES ZOOLOaiCAB XXIX. 1922. 



1162. Thaluiania furcata orenocensis Hellm. = Thalurania furcata orenocensis. 



Thalurania furcata orenocensis Hellmayr, Anzeiger Orn. Oea. Bayern, i. No. 4, p. 32 (1921 — " Oberer 

 Orinoko "). 



Type : ^ ad., Nericagua, Upper Orinoco, Venezuala, 13. iv. 1899. Geo. K. & 

 Stella M. Cherrie leg. No. 12515. 



(I think tschudii should also be looked upon as a subspecies of furcata !) 



1163. Chalybnra intermedia E. & C. Hartert = Chalyhura intermedia. 

 Chalyhura intermedia Ernst & Claudia Hartert, Nov. Zool. i. p. 44 (1894 — Western Ecuador). 



Type : c? a'd., between Pogia and Santa Rosa on the road from Guayaquil 

 to Loja in S.W. Ecuador. 0. T. Baron leg. 



(I cannot see any advantage in splitting up the genus Chalyhura into Chaly- 

 hura and Chlorurisca [comprising C. intermedia, melanorrhoa, isaurae, and 

 urochrysea], the characters — shorter or longer under tail-coverts and more or less 

 defined white patch on side of abdomen — being trifling.) 



f 1164. Aithurus tayloii Eothsch. = Aithurus polytmus. 

 Aithurus taylori Rothschild, Bull. Orn. Club, iii. p. xlvii (1894 — District of St. Andrew, Jamaica). 



Tjrpe : (? ad., St. Andrew, Jamaica, 24. iii. 1894. G. B. Taylor leg. 



(There can be no doubt that the specimens with golden-red patch on throat 

 from St. Andrew are only aberrant, in fact some almost look as if they were 

 artificially produced, but 0. B. Taylor was a creditable man. It is strange that 

 the black-biUed A. scitulus, of which Mr. J. E. Sherlock sent us a number from 

 Portland, Jamaica, was not discovered before 1900 ! 



t 1165. Eriocnemis evelinae E. & CI. Hart. = Eriocnemis vestita vestita juv. 

 Eriocnemis evelinae Ernst & Claudia Hartert, Nov. Zool. i. p. 59 (1894 — Rio Pastassa, E. Ecuador). 



Type : $ juv., Rio Pastassa. 0. T. Baron leg. 



There is no doubt that this bird is a young E. vestita, but whether the 

 " typical " E. V. vestitae or smuragdinipectus, is impossible to say ; if, however, 

 the former inhabits E. Ecuador, it would be that form. 



I agree with Simon that the names of " Races " employed by Lesson in 

 VEcho du Monde savant, 1843 — ^mostly in vernacular — ^were not introduced as 

 genera, and that the name " Vestipedes " has erroneously been used by American 

 authors as a substitute for Eriocnemis. 



t 1166. Eriocnemis berlepschi Hart. = Eriocnemis vestita vestita aberr. 



Eriocnemis berlepschi Hartert, Nov. Zool. iv. p. 531 (1897 — found in a Bogota collection, therefore 

 Colombia). 



Type : c?, found in a Bogota collection of trade skins. 



I quite agree with Mr. Simon, that this peculiar specimen, in colour so 

 much resembhng E. nigrivestis, is a melanistic aberration of E. vestita. Such 

 melanistic varieties were not very seldom found in Bogota collections, and I 

 have erred in good company (Elhot, Salvin, and others), and even in provisional 

 agreement with the late Count Berlepsch, in describing such melanisms as sup- 

 posed new forms. Monsieur Simon has a specimen intermediate between a typical 

 vestita and my herlepschi. 



