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G. 11), Belize (Blancaneauz 11), Cays off the coast (0. S.°); Guatemaua, San 
Gerdnimo 23, Escuintla!’, Santana Mixtan (0. S. & F. D. G.), Retalhuleu (0. S. 
& F. D. G., W. B. Richardson); Satvapor, Acajutla (Capt. J. M. Dow, in 
U.S. Nat. Mus.), La Libertad (W. B. &.1"); Honpuras, Tigre I. 19, Comayagua 
(G. C. Taylor **); Nicaragua, Chinandega, El Volcan Chinandega, Momotombo 
(W. B. R.™), Sucuya (Nutting); Costa Rica?’ ™, San Mateo, Punta Arenas 
(Boucard 1”). 
This species was first described by R. P. Lesson from skins obtained by his brother, 
A. Lesson, at Acapulco in the Mexican State of Guerrero1. We have many examples 
from this district sent us by Mrs. Herbert H. Smith, and the species has been traced 
northwards along the coast of Mexico through the State of Colima to San Blas and 
Mazatlan. Southwards it occurs uninterruptedly as far as Costa Rica, and we have 
many specimens before us from Tehuantepec, the Pacific coast-region of Guatemala, 
Salvador, and Nicaragua. On the east side of the continent Sumichrast records it from 
Potrero in the State of Vera Cruz, but we have never seen specimens from that State. 
It occursin Northern Yucatan and some of the islands off the coast, and in the northern 
part of British Honduras. In the interior of Guatemala the only place we ever met 
with it was San Gerénimo, where it was fairly common at an altitude of about 3000 
feet above sea-level. In Honduras, G. C. Taylor says it was a common species at 
intervals as he travelled across the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans, 
especially near Comayagua at an altitude of 1900 feet, where many birds were feeding 
from the flowers of .a cactus growing in open ground. In Guatemala we noticed that 
the blossoms of the orange-trees were usually frequented by this bird. 
As a species A. cinnamomea is very distinct from all other Amazilie except A. graysoni, 
which is a considerably larger bird. 
Its real affinity is probably with A. yucatanensis and its allies, as it agrees with them 
in having a flesh-coloured maxilla and dark wings without any chestnut at the base. 
It also has points in common with A. pristina and the other Andean species of that 
section of the genus. 
2. Amazilia graysoni. 
Amazilia (Pyrrhophena) graysoni, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. viii. p. 404". 
Pyrrhophena graysoni, Grayson, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xiv. p. 183°; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. 
li. p. 292°. 
Amazilia graysoni, Gould, Ibis, 1867, p. 247 *; Sharpe, in Gould’s Mon. Troch., Suppl. (March 
1887)’; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 209°. 
A, cinnamomee similis et omnino ejusdem coloris, sed multo major. Long. tota 4°7, ale 2-6, caudex 1:7, rostri 
arictu 1-1. (Descr. maris ex Tres Marias Is., Mexico Occ. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Tres Marias Islands (Grayson 12%, Forrer). 
The late Col. A. J. Grayson discovered this species during his visits to the Tres 
