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F. constanti similis, sed plaga gulari micanti-rubida multo minore et cauda supra plerumque obscuriore differt. 
(Deser. maris ex Alto de Camaron, Guerrero, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Pine-region-of N. Mexico (Sanchez 1), Sierra de Alamos in Sonora (W. 
Lloyd *), Mazatlan (Grayson *), Presidio de Mazatlan (A. Forrer®), San Blas, 
Bolafios (W. B. Richardson 8), Valley of Mexico? (le Strange’), Acapulco (Capt. 
J. M. Dow, in U.S. Nat. Mus.), Dos Arroyos, Rio Papagaio, Alto de Camaron, and 
Venta de Pelegrino (Mrs. H. H. Smith®), Tehuantepec (Sumichrast *°), Chimalapa 
(W. B. Richardson 8). 
Floricola leocadie is a northern form of F. constanti, and is entirely restricted to 
Mexico, where it is found almost exclusively on the western side from Sonora in the 
north to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. 
Gould, who described the species as Heliomaster pinicola®, says that it inhabits the 
lofty pine-ridges of Northern Mexico; but this statement is hardly correct, for we have 
abundant evidence that its chief abode is at a low level, and even reaches the sea-coas 
at Mazatlan, San Blas, Acapulco, and Tehuantepec. 
Our specimen from Alamos is quite young in its first plumage, and was shot on the 
23rd May, 1888. One from San Blas is not fully grown, and was shot on 2nd May, 
1889. <A still younger bird from Bolafios was shot on 17th February, 1859. These 
specimens indicate that the breeding-season extends over several months. 
d’. Rostrum multo brevius sensim decurvatum ; cauda longior, rotundata 
aut subfurcata. 
ce’. Cauda furcata, rectricibus lateralibus longissimis, angustis. 
CYANOPHATA. 
Cyanophaia, Reichenbach, Aufz. d. Col. p. 10; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 233. 
Compared with Foricola, which has a similarly denuded culmen and nasal covers, 
this and the following genera have a much shorter, more curved, bill and longer tail in 
proportion to their size. 
Cyanophaia has a distinctly forked tail, the lateral pair of rectrices being the longest. 
The genus itself contains three species, all of which are found in Colombia, but not 
further south. Only one of these spreads over the State of Panama, and perhaps to 
Costa Rica. 
1. Cyanophaia ceruleigularis. 
Trochilus ( ?) ceruleigularis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 163°. 
Sapphironia ceruleigularis, Scl. P. ZS. 1856, p. 140°; Gould, Mon. Troch. v. t. 346 (May 1860) °; 
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