304 TROCHILIDA. 
c. Culmen ad basin nudum; tegule nasales fere omnino exposite. 
c!. Rostrum elongatum, rectum ; cauda brevis, rotundata, rectricibus lateralibus albo 
terminatis. 
FLORICOLA. 
Floricola, Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 82. 
Heliomaster, auctt. nec Bonaparte. 
The species here included in Floricola were usually placed under Heliomaster till 
Mr. Elliot showed that that name properly belongs to H. furcifer, and proposed a new 
generic name for them. In general appearance Floricola resembles Heliomaster and 
Lepidolarynx, and these three genera have always, we believe, been placed in juxta- 
position. Floricola, however, has several points of difference from the other two forms 
which keeps it somewhat widely apart from them. Instead of the culmen being 
feathered at the base to such an extent that the nasal covers are completely hidden, 
the latter are fully exposed, and this character brings Florico/a into the neighbourhood 
of a group of genera all of which have the culmen bare nearly to the base. It stands 
apart from all these genera by virtue of its long bill and short tail. 
Four species are included in the genus, belonging to two sections, which may readily 
be distinguished by the colour of the crown. Of these the widely ranging J. longi- 
rostris in a slightly modified form extends as far as Central Vera Cruz. The other 
two species belonging to the plain-headed section are peculiar, the one to Mexico, the 
other to Central America. 
a. Pileus ceruleo-viridis micans. 
1. Floricola longirostris. 
Oiseau-Mouche & long Bec, Aud. Ois. Dor. i. p. 128, t. 59°. 
Trochilus longirostris, Vieill. N. Dict. d’Hist. N. vii. p. 366°. 
Heliomaster longirostris, Gould, Mon. Troch. iv. t. 259 (May 1853) 3; Scl. P. Z. 8. 1856, p. 140°‘; 
Salv. Ibis, 1860, pp. 195°, 263°, 2767; 1869, p. 316°; P. Z. S. 1867, p. 155°; 1870, 
p. 210"; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 126”. 
Floricola longirostris, Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 83°; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 229”. 
Heliomaster sclateri, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 54'*; Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 189"; Lawr. 
Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 47°; ix. p. 126. 
Heliomaster pallidiceps, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 189"; Scl. Cat. Am. Birds, p. 310”; Salv. Ibis, 
1866, p. 205°; 1869, p. 316"; 1872, p. 820%; Cat. Strick]. Coll. p. 367”; Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 229%; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 126”; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, 
p. 82%; de Oca, La Nat. iii. p. 27; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 250%; Sanchez, An. 
Mus. Nac. Mex. 1. p. 96”. 
Heliomaster stewarte, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vil. p. 291°; Scl. & Salv. P.Z.S. 1864, p. 365 *'. 
Supra nitenti-aureo-viridis, nucha et tectricibus supracaudalibus cupreo tinctis, dorso postico plaga irregulari 
