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Panam4; Minca and San Sebasti4n in Santa Marta, and Bogoté, Colombia; 
Mérida and Aragua Valley, Venezuela; Bafios, Ecuadér?; Huasampilla, 
Peru?; Yungas and Tilotilo, Bolivia?) —Wvyarrt, Ibis, 1871, 377 (Alto and 
Canuto, Colombia, 5,000-6,000 ft.).—Mutsant and VERREAUX, Hist. Nat. 
Ois.-Mouch., ii, livr. 2, 1875, 151 (Costa Rica; Colombia; Venezuela; Ecua- 
dér?; Peru?); iv, livr. 3, 1878, 202 (synonymy); Suppl. pl. 40.—Ex1iot, 
Ibis, 1876, 404 (Costa Rica; Panam4; Colombia; Venezuela); Classif. and 
Synop. Troch., 1879, 51.—Bovcarp, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 69 (Voleén 
de Irazt, 8,000 it.; habits); The Hum. Bird, ii, 1892, 85 (Bogoté).—ScLaTER 
and Savin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, 530 (Santa Elena, Colombia).— 
Savin and Gopman, Ibis, 1880, 173 (Minca, Santa Marta, Colombia, 2,000 ft.); 
Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 282 (Las Cruces de Candeléria, etc., Costa 
Rica; localities in Panam4; Colombia, etc.).—Nutrine, Proc. U. 8. Nat. 
Mus., v, 1882, 500 (San José, Costa Rica).—ZELED6N, Cat. Aves de Costa 
Rica, 1882, 20; Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 121 (Faldas de Irazi).— 
Ripeway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 500 (Volc4n de Irazi).—Brr- 
LEpscH, Journ. fiir Orn., 1884, 319 (Alto and Canuto, Colombia); 1887, 318 
(Bogot4; synonymy).—Bane@s, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, i, 1899, 76 (San 
Sebasti4n and El Mamén, Santa Marta, Colombia).—AttEn, Bull. Am. Mus. 
N.H., xiii, 1900, 140 (Valparaiso and El Libano, Santa Marta).—Smmon and 
Datmas, Ornis, xi, 1901, 214 (Andes de Cuman4, Venezuela). 
[Petasophora] cyanota Suarpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 117. 
Pletasophora] thalassina (not Trochilus thalassinus Swainson) CaBANIS and HEINE, 
Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 27 (Ver4gua, Panamé). 
(?) Petasophora cabanidis ¢ Heng, Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 182 (Costa Rica). 
(?) [Polytmus] cabanidis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 127, no. 1608. 
(?) [Petasophora] cabanidis Heinz and RetcHenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 
177. 
Petasophora cyanotis cabanidis (not Petasophora cabanidis Heine?) Banes, Proc. 
New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, Jan. 30, 1902, 30 (Boquete, Panama, 4,000-5,800 
ft.; crit.). 
Petasophora cyanotus cabanidis OBERHOLSER, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxiv, no. 1258, 
Jan., 1902, 319, in text. 
Colibri cyanotus cabanidis CARRIKER, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 538 (mts. of 
Costa Rica; crit.). 
Petasophora cabanisi LAwRENCE, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ix, 1868, 126 (Costa Rica; 
‘coll. G. N. Lawrence).—Bovucarp, The Hum. Bird, ii, 1892, 85 (Verdgua); 
Gen. Hum. Bird, 1895, 318 (Irazu, Costa Rica; Verdgua). 
[Petasophora] cyan[otis] cabanisi Stmon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 22. 
COLIBRI DELPHINZ (Lesson). 
BROWN VIOLET-EAR. 
Adults (sexes alike).—Above dull grayish brown or olive, very 
faintly. glossed (in certain lights) with greenish bronze, bronze, or 
purplish bronze, the feathers of ramp and upper tail-coverts margined 
terminally with cinnamon or cinnamon-bufly; tail greenish olive, 
faintly but distinctly glossed with bronze, crossed by a broad sub- 
terminal band of blackish or dusky, glossed with purplish bronze; 
remiges dark brownish slate or dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; 
« According to Hartert (Novit. Zool., iv, 148), C. cabanidis Heine is C. delphinz 
(Lesson). 
