296 TROCHILID A. 
Patzcuaro (Dugés*), Volcan de Colima ( W. B. R.°), Chilpancingo, Xautipa, 
Amula, Omilteme in Guerrero (Mrs. H. H. Smith°), Valley of Mexico (White®, 
Villada®, de Oca*, Sanchez", Herrera®), Tetelco in the Valley of Mexico (Ff. 
Ferrari-Perez®), Cofre de Perote (IZ. Trujillo), Jalapa (de Oca® 1112, Sanchez", 
F. Ferrari-Perez 4, Trujillo®), Coatepec (P. Ferrari-Perez®, Trujillo®), Orizaba 
(Botteri?, de Oca®, Sanchez7), Cordova (Sallé?, de Oca®, Sanchez"), Omealca 
(F. Ferrari-Perez), Villa Alta, Totontepec (I. Trujillo®), Oaxaca (Penochio °), 
Chimalapa, Tehuantepec (W. B. Richardson °). 
Deppé’s specimens, briefly described by Lichtenstein, were the first of this species 
that reached Europe}. The same bird was soon afterwards renamed Ornismya arsinoe 
by Lesson?°, and figured in the Supplement to his Histoire Naturelle Oiseaux- 
Mouches. Bourcier’s name Trochilus maria !8 also, we feel sure, belongs here, though 
this name has been applied to the next species. 
Amazilia beryllina is one of the commonest of the Mexican Humming-Birds, and is 
distributed over a large area of that country, from the northern confines of the State 
of Sinaloa in the north to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and over the plateau of Mexico 
to the State of Vera Cruz in the east. De Oca says that this bird is found in the 
Cantons of Jalapa, Cordova, and Orizaba, and other parts of the State of Vera Cruz 6, 
It frequents the gardens of the houses of Jalapa during the whole year, but is more 
common in the months of May, June, and July, which are the nesting-season. 
There is considerable variation in the colour of the tail in this species, and in some 
specimens the upper tail-coverts and the tail are deep violet-purple, but we are unable 
to fix these variations to any definite localities. Asarule the darker specimens are 
from the more northern parts of Western Mexico, but this is not always the case. 
The range in altitude of this bird extends from the sea-level at San Blas to the 
plateau of Mexico. 
4, Amazilia devillii. 
Trochilus devillii, Bourc. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 272’. 
Amazilia devillii, Gould, Mon. Troch. v. t. 813 (May 1860)’; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 369°; 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 211*; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 451°. 
Pyrrhophena devillii, Salv. Ibis, 1866, p. 204°; Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 337; 
Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 250°. 
Amazilia arsinoe, Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 195°. 
Amazilia dumerilii, Salv. Ibis, 1860, pp. 263 7°, 270”. 
Amazilia marie, Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 222 (nec Bourc.) »*. 
A. berrylline similis, sed alis ad basin minus castaneis, colore viridi subtus usque ad crissum extenso. 
Q minus nitida. (Descr. maris et femine ex Duenas, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Yucatan (Gawmer®), 1 Gineta Mountains in Chiapas (Sumichrast’ 8) ; 
GuaTEMALA 4, Choctum, Yzabal °, Duefias 14, Volcan de Fuego, La Trinidad (0. 8. 
& F. D, G.); Satvapor, Volcan de San Miguel, La Libertad (W. B. Richardson). 
