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Trochilus melanotus, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 441". 
Trochilus cuculiger, Licht. Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog. p. 1 (cf. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 55)". 
Ornismyia arsennii, Less. His. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, pp. xxvii, xlvi'?; Suppl. p. 152, t. 27”. 
Heliopedica melanotis, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. t. 64 (May 1858) "'; Sanchez, An. Mus. Nac. Mex. 
1. p. 96"; Sel. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 1380"; Salv. Ibis, 1860, pp. 1957, 263%, 271”; 
Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 176”; A. Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 141"; Villada, La Nat. ii. p. 365” ; 
de Oca, La Nat. iii. p. 28%; Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, (2) xxii. p. 14”; Herrera, 
La Nat. (2) i. p. 822”. 
Supra nitenti-gramineo-viridis, ad nucham et ad pileum posticum nigricantior, ad uropygium magis aurescens ; 
facie et mento micanti-cyaneis, stria postoculari elongata alba; pectore micanti-viridi, abdomine et 
tectricibus subcaudalibus nitenti-viridibus his griseo-albido limbatis, caude rectricibus mediis nitenti- 
aureo-viridibus, lateralibus chalybeis viridi terminatis: rostro carneo, apice nigro. Long. tota 3:5, 
alee 2-0, caude 1:2, rostri a rictu 0°65. 
Q supra nitenti-aureo-viridis, capite summo et nucha obscure fuscis rufo marginatis, stria postoculari alba, 
infra eam et infra oculum plaga nigra: subtus fusco-alba, gutturis plumis macula discali micanti-viridi, . 
hypochondriis quoque maculatis; tectricibus subcaudalibus albidis, macula discali fusca; rectricibus 
lateralibus griseo-albo terminatis: rostro fere nigro. (Descr. maris et femine ex Sierra Nevada de 
Colima. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Tutuaca in Sonora (W. Lloyd °), Mazatlan (Grayson, in U.S. Nat. Mus.), 
Ciudad in Durango (4. Forrer®), Sierra de Victoria Tamaulipas, Sierra de San 
Luis Potosi, Sierra de Valparaiso, Sierra de Nayarit, Sierra de Bolafios, Tepic, 
Volcan de Colima, Sierra Nevada de Colima (W. B. Richardson ®), Guanajuato 
(Dugés*', Sanchez), Real del Monte, Temiscaltepec (Bullock ©), Amecameca, 
Pinal in Puebla (f. D. G.°), Rio Frio Ixtaccihuatl, Tenango del Valle (W. B. R.°), 
Valley of Mexico (Sanchez °, Villada?*, de Oca?®, Herrera >, White 2°), Ixtapalapa, 
Hacienda Eslava, Chimalpa, 'Tetelco, San Antonio Coapa, and Las Cruces in the 
Valley of Mexico, Las Vigas, Montafias de Orizaba (Lf. Ferrari-Perez°), Tlascala 
(f. D. G.°), Cofre de Perote (AZ. Trujillo’), Jalapa (de Oca’, Sanchez ), Mirador 
(Sartorius, in U. 8. Nat. Mus.), Cordova (Sallé), Amula, Omilteme in Guerrero 
(Mrs. H. H. Smith ®), Villa Alta, Totontepec, Tonaguia in Oaxaca (IZ. Trujillo *), 
Oaxaca (Fenochio®); GuaremaLa (Skinner !°), Quezaltenango, Totonicapam (0. 8. 
& I. D.G.), Santa Maria, Chuipaché (W. B. Richardson ®), Volcan de Fuego !, 
V. de Agua, Chilasco, Santa Rosa above Salama, San Gerénimo 1°, Santa Barbara, 
Coban "19 (0. S. & F. D. G.°); Nicaragua, Matagalpa (W. B. Richardson). 
This is one of the commonest and most characteristic of the Humming-Birds of the 
highlands of Mexico and Guatemala, its range extending from the States of Sonora and 
Tamaulipas to the uplands of Nicaragua, birds from these widely-separated districts 
presenting no appreciable difference. Its range in altitude is considerable. It does 
not occur much below 4000 feet above sea-level, and thence reaches as high as 7000 or 
8000 feet. On the slopes of the Volcan de Fuego we used to find it not uncommonly in 
open glades in the oak-forests, where it took its food from any plants that happened to 
be in flower. Of the breeding-habits of this species we have no account, but a three- 
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