BLACK-BREASTED PUFFLEG Eriocnemis nigrivestis CR

Trochilus nigrivestis Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852

MZUT AV2551; skin; adult male; Ecuador, Gualea (north-west of Quito), July 1897; collected by E. Festa.

MZUT AV2552; skin; adult male; Ecuador, Nanegal (north-west of Quito), June 1897; collected by E. Festa.

MZUT AV2553; skin; adult female; Ecuador, Nanegal (north-west of Quito), June 1897; collected by E. Festa.

MZUT AV11571; skin; adult male; Ecuador, Nanegal (north-west of Quito), June 1897; collected by E. Festa.

MZUT AV11572; skin; adult female; Ecuador, Nanegal (north-west of Quito), June 1897; collected by E. Festa.

Remarks.—Enrico Festa (1868–1939) was an Italian naturalist and explorer. He worked at the Royal Zoological Museum of Torino University, initially as an assistant and then as honorary deputy manager. During 1895–99 he visited Panama, Colombia and Ecuador where he collected zoological material, including birds that were studied in collaboration with Tommaso Salvadori (Arcangeli 1940, Mazzotti 2011).