FLORISUGA.—ABEILLIA. 341 
Supra saturate nitenti-gramineo-viridis, cervice postica ad basin alba, capite toto et cervice usque ad pectus 
saturate nitenti-cyaneis, cervice postica viridi tincta, abdomine albo, hypochondriis viridibus; caude 
rectricibus mediis ceruleo-viridibus, lateralibus albis, apicibus omnibus et marginibus externis anguste 
(rectrice extima excepta) purpureo-nigris: rostro nigro. Long. tota circa 4-0, ale 2-6, caude 1-4, rostri 
a rictu 0:9, 
@ supra omnino viridis, plaga cervicali alba nulla: subtus albida, plumis plaga magna discali saturate viridi 
notatis, abdomine medio fere albo, tectricibus subcaudalibus nigricantibus albo marginatis ; caude rectri- 
cibus lateralibus ad basin viridescentibus, fascia subterminali chalybea, apicibus albis. (Descr. maris et 
femine ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Sumichrast ); British Honpuras, Belize (Leyland *), Western 
district (F. Blancaneaua); Guatema.a (Skinner >), Choctum !, near Peten (0.8. & 
F. D. G.); Honpuras, San Pedro (G. M. Whitely’) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt °), 
Rio San Juan (Rovirosa, in U.S. Nat. Mus.) ; Costa Rica (Endres 1° 1), Bebedero 
de Nicoya (Arcé) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui!°, Cordillera de Tolé 8, Santiago 
de Veraguas § (Arcé), Lion Hill (Md‘Leannan® 1"), Paraiso (Hughes !°).—SoutH 
America from Colombia to Guiana, Trinidad, Tobago, the Amazons Valley, and 
Ecuador. 
Florisuga mellivora is a very common species of the lowlands of the northern portion 
of South America, from the Valley of the Amazons to the Caribbean Sea, occurring 
also in the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Within our limits it is equally abundant 
in the State of Panama, and thence northwards through Costa Rica to Eastern Nicar- 
agua, and keeping to the eastern side of the Cordillera to Guatemala and the State of 
Vera Cruz. In Mexico, however, it must be a rare bird, as we have no skins of it 
from that country, and its presence there rests upon Sumichrast’s statement that it 
occurs near Orizaba ®. M. Boucard’s description of F. sall@i was taken from a speci- 
men shot by himself in Southern Mexico". This last-mentioned bird appears to be a 
stained specimen, either through damp or exposure, of the ordinary form. At one time 
F. mellivora was stated to be found in the Tres Marias Islands on the authority of 
Xantus 314; but Count Berlepsch }6 has shown that this and other Humming-Birds 
stated to have come from the same islands were included in the list of their birds by 
some oversight. Their presence there was not confirmed by Grayson or by Mr. Forrer. 
So far as our own observations go, F. mellivora is a forest-loving bird, and in Guate- 
mala its vertical range probably does not exceed 2000 feet. 
b!. Minores: cauda rotundata ; rostrum debile ; tegule nasales celate ; caput 
haud cristatum. 
ge". Rostrum parvum, breve ; caput dorsum concolor. 
ABEILLIA. 
Abeillia, Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i. p. 79; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 358. 
This genus and the next belong to a section of Humming-Birds which are of small 
