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aA laris, “ Licht.’’ Nordm. Erm. Reis. Atl. p. 2, : :
Trochilus malar ains. Class. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 330 ; Jard. Nat. Lib. Humming-Birds, vol. ii. p. 150 ;

Pha is superciliosus, Sw . Ngee
Phaéthornis su Ap 104, Phetornis, sp. 1; Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. tom. i. p. 67, Phaétornis,

Gray & Mitch. Gen. of Birds, v
sp. 1 ; Pelzeln, Sitz. Acad. Wien, 1856, p. 157, 1.

Habitat. Cayenne, the Guianas, and Northern Brazil? ;

It will be seen that the above list of synonyms differs from that given with my aco this species. I alent
these synonyms on the authority of Dr. Cabanis, who considers that I am in error in applying the tng ar
to the bird I have figured under that name, and that it properly belongs to the one I have called Pretret,—an opinion
which is probably Byitect: as the German naturalists are doubtless better acquainted with the type specimens of

continental writers than we can be: the synonyms of malaris and superciliosus are therefore given in accordance

with the views of Dr. Cabanis.

18. PHAETHORNIS CONSOBRINA.
Trochilus consobrinus, ‘‘ Bource.’’ Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p. 17.
Phathornis Moorei, Lawr. in Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. vi. p. 259.

Habitat. New Granada, Ecuador, and the banks of the Napo.

This is the bird so commonly sent from Bogota, and which so closely assimilates both to the P. malaris
(superciliosus of my work) and P. longirostris (cephalus). It ranges over the north-western parts of Venezuela
and New Granada. I have also a specimen from Archidona in Ecuador. A great number of specimens from all
these countries are now before me, and among them two named consobrinus by M. Bourcier himself, and one
from Mr. Lawrence of New York, labelled P. Moorei, proving that these two names have been applied to the

same bird.

19. PHA&THORNIS FRATERCULA, Gould . : : : ‘ : : 3 . 3 ; Viole Rieags
Habitat. Cayenne and the neighbouring countries.
Every ornithologist who has paid attention to the Trochilide must have seen a Humming-Bird from Cayenne
and the adjacent countries which is very similar to, but smaller than, the P. malaris (superciliosus of this mono-
graph) ; yet, strange to say, I find no description that will accord with it. I have therefore given it the above

specific appellation. It is possible that it may be the female of the P. malaris (superciliosus).

20. PHAETHORNIS LONGIROSTRIS : : p : ; : : : : : Vol. I. Pl. 19.

Phaéthornis longirostris, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 9:
Habitat. Central America.

21. PHAETHORNIS SYRMATOPHORA, Gould. : : : : : 3 : é : Vol. I. Pl. 20.
Habitat. Ecuador.

“Trides hazel; upper mandible black ; lower mandible red, tipped with black ; legs and feet dark flesh-colour.

Stomach contained yellow insects. All insects previously examined amongst the Humming-Birds have been black.”
Fraser in Proc. of Zool. Soc. part xxvii. p. 145.

22, PHakETHornis Bouiviana, Gould.
Habitat. Bolivia.

Upper mandible black ; under mandible yellow, with a dark tip

chin smoky brown; throat, chest, belly, and under tail-coverts dull reddish fawn-colour ; crown dark brown, each
feather faintly striated with buff;

; all the upper surface dull reddish fawn-colour, crescented with small marks of
brown; base of the four outer tail-feathers on each side bronzy green, to which succeeds a bar of black, beyond

wee the tip is reddish buff: the two prolonged centre-feathers bronze at the base, then brownish black, and
white for the remainder of their length.

; above and beneath the eye a stripe of buff;

Total length 54 inches, bill 12, wing 21, tail 21,

This bird is somewhat allied to P. syrmatophora; but it is

. of much smaller size, and has the throat and chest
differently coloured, those parts

rey without the conspicuous streakings of buff; the whole
loured.

being obscure smoky ¢
under-surface also, as well as the rump, is less richly co