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Pyrrhophena dubusi, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 36%; Cab. J. £. Orn. 1862, p. 163”. 
Trochilus fuscicaudatus, Fraser, P. Z. 8. 1840, p. 17"? 
Amazilia fuscicaudata, Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 1473 x. p. 591”; Elliot, Syn. Troch. 
p. 220"; Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 398°; vi. p. 406” ; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. 
Costa Rica, 1887, p. 122”. 
Supra nitenti-cupreo-viridis, pileo obscuriore, tectricibus supracaudalibus castaneis: subtus viridis micans, 
abdomine antico et hypochondriis nitenti-viridibus, abdomine imo fusco, loris et tectricibus subcaudalibus 
castaneis ; cauda castanea, cupreo limbata et terminata : rostro carneo, apice nigro. Long. tota 4:0, ale 2:3, 
caude 1:35, rostri a rictu 0°93. , 
Q maris similis, maxilla obscuriore. (Descr. maris et femine ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. 'Texas'§ ?8.—Mexico, Tampico (W. B. Richardson"), Cordova (Sallé ; Sumi- 
chrast, in U. S. Nat. Mus.), Choapam (Boucard**), Playa Vicente (Boucard 24, 
Trujillo), Sochiapa (M. Trujilio'!), Teapa (Mrs. H. H. Smith"), Guichicovi 
(Sumichrast*1); British Honpuras, Orange Walk (G. F. Gaumer), Corosal 
(Roe 1"), Belize, Cayo (Blancaneausz 1*); Guaremana, Santa Ana in Peten (0. S.), 
Choctum, Coban®, Lanquin, Yzabal® (0. S. & F. D. G.™); Honpuras (Bour- 
cier *3), Segovia River (Zownsend*°); Nicaragua, Matagalpa and La Libertad 
(W. B. hichardson), Chontales (Belt"), Los Sahalos (Nutting 22), Greytown 
(Holland '*), San Juan Bautista (Rovirosa, in U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; Costa Rica, 
Orosi (Kramer), Irazu (Rogers 1!, Boucard?°), Tucurriqui (Arcé!1), El Naranjo 3%, 
San José 3%, ‘Talamanca (Zeledon, in U. S. Nat. Mus.), La Palma (Nutting 34) ; 
Panama, David (Warszewiez, Bridges*), Chiriqui, Chitra, Boquete de Chitra, 
Cordillera del Chucu %, Calovevora® (Arcé), Lion Hill (1fLeannan * !2), Paraiso 
(Hughes 11), Veragua ?°.—Co.omBia!!°; Ecuapor }. 
Considering that Chachapoyas in Peru, where this bird is not known to occur, was 
stated by Fraser to be the origin of his type of 7. fuscicaudatus 27, and seeing that 
there are points in the description of that bird that do not apply to the species usually 
known as A. riefferi, we continue to employ the latter name for the present species, 
though a different course is taken by Mr. Elliot and other American writers. 
Bourcier’s type of his Zrochilus rieffert came from Fusagasugdé in Colombia’, and 
the bird is very well known from that country, skins of it being frequently sent in 
numbers in the trade collections of Bogota. It is also abundant in Ecuador, where 
most collectors have met with it, and where Fraser noticed some birds of this species 
feeding from the bark of a large tree in the forest at Babahoyo, and others searching 
the eaves of houses in Esmeraldas. At Panama and thence northwards on the eastern 
side of Central America and Mexico to the mouth of the Rio Grande this species seems 
to enjoy an uninterrupted range from the sea-level to a height of 4300 feetiat Coban 
in Vera Paz. At the latter place several specimens were procured in the months of 
November and January, but the species was not common. At Lanquin, in March, 
Salvin obtained two half-grown birds, showing that the nesting-season there must be 
quite early in the year. 
