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to breed. This, however, is not the case, as Trujillo obtained specimens on the Cofre 
de Perote in November, and at Tonaguia and Totontepec in February. 
M. Boucard, who observed this species at La Parada and elsewhere, says that it 
feeds from the flowers of Bromeliacee. 
In Guatemala L. rhamié is a bird of the upland forests lying at an elevation of from 
6000 to 10,000 feet above the sea-level. We found it to be tolerably abundant in 
September on the slopes of the Volcan de Fuego and the ridges adjoining, where the 
vegetation is dense, and in other similar places in the higher mountains of Guatemala. 
It flies amongst the undergrowth, and feeds from such trees and shrubs that happen to 
be in flower, 
f", Rostrum variabile, rectum aut modice curvatum ; tegule nasales omnino plumate ; 
remigum rhachides normales. 
eg". Rostrum robustum, rectum. 
HELIODOXA. 
Heliodowa, Gould, P. Z. 8. 1849, p. 95; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 317. 
Heliodoxa is the only representative of a small group of genera distinguished by 
their straight strong bills, some of which, as in Docimaster, are extraordinarily 
Jengthened. ‘The nasal covers are completely feathered, the tail forked, and the tail- 
feathers normal in the present genus. The under surface, especially the throat, is 
glittering green. 
This genus has a wide range in the Andes from Bolivia to Colombia and Venezuela, 
and occurs also in the highlands of Guiana. One species of Colombia also appears in 
the mountainous parts of Panama and Costa Rica, and is the only one found within 
our limits. 
1. Heliodoxa jacula. 
Heliodoxa jacula, Gould, P. ZS. 1849, p. 96’; Mon. Troch. ii. t. 94 (Sept. 1858) *; Cab. & Heine, 
Mus. Hein. iii. p. 22°; Salv. P. ZS. 1867, p. 154"; 1870, p. 207’; Ibis, 1869, p. 316°; 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 3197; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 122°; Boucard, P. Z.S. 
1878, p. 69°; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 121. 
Heliodoxa henryt, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. viii. p. 402". 
Supra saturate gramineo-viridis, capite summo fronte et corpore toto subtus micanti-viridibus, abdomine obscu- 
riore; plaga gulari micanti-violacea, tectricibus subcaudalibus brunneis medialiter viridi lavatis ; cauda 
chalybeo-cyanea, rectricibus mediis cupreo tinctis: rostro nigro. Long. tota circa 4°7, ale 2:8, caude 
rectr. med, 1°35, rectr. lat. 2-0, rostri a rictu 1-1. 
_@ supra mari similis, capite summo dorso concolore: subtus alba, plumis singulis macula discali micanti- 
viridi ornatis, rectricibus lateralibus albo terminatis. (Descr. maris et femine ex Cordillera de Tolé, 
Panama. Mus. nostvr.) 
Hab. Costa Rica, Angostura, Juiz (Carmio/ *!"), Birris de Cartago (Zeledon '°), Tucur- 
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