292 TROCHILID. 
Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 198°; Lawr. Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xiv. p. 284°; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. 
ii. p. 292". 
Uranomitra guatemalensis, Berl. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xi. p. 562”. 
C. cyanocephale persimilis, cauda cupreo- nec olivaceo-viridi tincta forsan distinguenda. 
Hab. British Honpuras, Southern Pine-ridge of the Western District (Blancaneaux®) ; 
GuateMaLA, Pine-ridge of Poctun, Coban, Mountains of Chilasco and San Geronimo 
in Vera Paz, Duefias! (0. 8S. & F. D. G.°), Panajachel (W. B. Richardson ®) ; 
Honpuras, Siquatepec (G. C. Taylor®); Nicaragua, Matagalpa (W. B. &.°). 
The difference between this bird and the Mexican C. cyanocephala, though slight, 
seems to be fairly definite when adults with plumage of about the same age are com- 
pared. It is then seen that the tail of the southern form is more decidedly tinged with 
a bronzy hue, that of the northern bird being nearly pure olive. Females and young 
birds are not always easy to distinguish. 
The range of C. guatemalensis extends beyond the limits of Guatemala in both direc- 
tions, being found in the pine-clad districts of the western parts of British Honduras 
at an elevation of 1500 to 2000 feet above sea-level, and near Matagalpa in Nicaragua, 
also in a pine-region, at an elevation of about 4000 feet. The specimens obtained 
by Mr. Richardson in the last-named locality were shot between June and October. 
In the highlands of Guatemala it is a common bird, especially about the village of 
Duefias, where it chiefly feeds from the flowers of a Euphorbiaceous tree which grows 
there to a height of twenty or thirty feet, and forms one of the chief trees of the scrubby 
forest. Nests were found in successive years near the house of the Hacienda at Duefias, 
placed in the outer branches of a large cypress tree. In cutting one of these nests 
down it was thrown quite on one side, but the eggs did not fall out owing to a -pro- 
jecting rim inside the nest keeping them from being upset. ‘This rim would preserve 
the eggs from danger during great oscillations caused by high wind. 
Some birds of this species were very tame, one would even take cotton-wool from a 
table inside the house, doubtless for nest-building ; the same bird would daily search 
the cut flowers in the rooms. On one occasion it was caught but showed little fear, 
and whilst in the hand sucked at sugar dipped in water, and on being liberated flew to 
a tree close by. ‘The wind produced by the rapid action of the wings of these little 
birds is considerable, for the surface of the piece of wool over which the intruder 
hovered was violently agitated by the disturbance of the air. 
b!. Guttur nunquam omnino album ; color nitido-cyaneus nullus ; supra plumis 
micantibus nunquam ornate. 
AMAZILIA. 
Les Amazilis, Lesson, Ind. gén. Troch. p. xxvii. 
Amazilia, Reich. Av. Syst. t. 39; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 208. 
