320 ; TROCHILIDZ. 
p. 88°; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 365"; Salv. Ibis, 1860, pp. 195°, 260°; 1872, p. 319"; P. Z.8. 
1867, p. 152"; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 291; ix. p. 121”; Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. 
Mus. x. p. 591”. 
Pygmornis adolphi, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iil. p. 7”; Salv. & Elliot, Ibis, 1873, p. 271"; 
Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 67"; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 282. 
Supra cupreo-viridis, capite summo obscuriore, tectricibus supracaudalibus elongatis rufescentibus, stria post- 
oculari cervina, tectricibus auricularibus nigricantibus: subtus rufescens, gutture obscuriore ; cauda seneo- 
viridi, rectricibus omnibus rufo terminatis duabus mediis ad apicem pallidioribus: rostro nigro, mandibula 
flava apice nigra, pedibus flavis. Long. tota 3-8, ale 1:5, caude rectr. med. 1°35, rectr. lat. 0°7, rostri a 
rictu 1:0. 
© mari similis, sed gutture pallidiore, cauda longiore rectricibus duabus mediis magis productis (long. 1°45) 
distinguenda. (Descr. maris et femine ex Cordova, Mexico. Mus. Brit.) 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sallé12), Jalapa (de Oca *), Playa Vicente (Boucard*, M. Trujillo), 
Teotalcingo (Boucard*), Teapa (Mrs. H. H. Smith); Guaremata (Skinner), forests 
of Northern Vera Paz, Kamkal near Coban, Coban § 9, Lanquin, Yzabal °° (0. S. & 
F. D. G.); Honpuras, Segovia River (Zownsend 1+); Nicaragua, Chontales 
(Belt!); Costa Rica (Endres 18, Angostura (Carmiol'®, Zeledon), Talamanca 
(Zeledon), San Carlos (Boucard 1"); Panama, Santiago de Veraguas (Arcé*!), Lion 
Hill (M‘Leannan7}2), Paraiso (Hughes 18), Obispo (Salvin). 
This species of Pygmornis was discovered by M. Sallé during his residence at 
Cordova in Mexico, the first description of it being published with a figure by Gould 
in his ‘Monograph of the Trochilide.’ It is not a common bird by any means in 
Mexico, though specimens have been obtained in several places in the States of Vera 
Cruz and Tabasco. In the dense forests of Eastern Guatemala, P. adolphi is usually 
to be seen up to an elevation of over 4000 feet above sea-level. At Coban we found 
it in the month of November, feeding from the blossoms of the numerous Salvie 
which abound there. Though not common its presence could readily be detected by 
the peculiar sound produced by the wings. At Yzabal it was more numerous in the 
forest bordering the town, but always in the dense undergrowth beneath the forest 
trees. It was by no means shy, taking little notice of an observer, and searching the 
flowers within a few feet of him. Like most Humming-Birds it rests frequently, 
selecting a small dead twig for its perch, where it trims its feathers with its long bill, 
which it cleans by rubbing on the perch on which it stands. 
Keeping to the eastern side of the main mountain-chain of Central America, 
P. adolphi is found in the Province of Chontales in Nicaragua and in Eastern Costa 
Rica. In the State of Panama it occurs on both sides of the mountains, the southern 
limit of its range terminating near the line of the Panama Railway, for in Darien the 
allied P. stritgularis takes its place. 
