342 ° TROCHILIDA. 
size, with small feeble bills, the tomia of both maxilla and mandible being decidedly 
rolled inwards towards the tip; the nostrils are concealed by feathers, which, however, 
do not extend so far along the culmen as in some of the other genera. The tail is 
rounded and the rectrices normal; the head is uncrested. 
Abeillia differs from HKlais in having a smaller, shorter bill, and in the crown being 
green like the back. ‘The sole species of the genus extends from Southern Mexico and 
the highlands of. Guatemala to those of Nicaragua. 
1. Abeillia typica. 
Ornismya abeillei, Delattre & Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 16°. 
Abeillia typica, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 79°; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. pp. 358, 666°; Salv. & 
Godm. Ibis, 1892, p. 827%. 
Myiabeillia typica, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 253°; Gould, Mon. Troch. iii. t. 211 (Oct. 1854) °; 
Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 128"; Salv. Ibis, 1860, pp. 195 *, 262°, 263*°; de Oca, La Nat. 
lll, p. 205”. 
Baucis abeillei, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 72”; Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. 
p. 23”. 
Supra nitenti-gramineo-viridis, plaga postoculari magna alba, tectricibus auricularibus nigris; mento et gula 
antica micanti-viridibus, infra nigro marginatis; corpore reliquo subtus fusco, cervicis lateribus, hypo- 
chondriis et tectricibus subcaudalibus medialiter viridibus ; caude rectricibus mediis cupreo-viridibus, 
lateralibus chalybeo-cyaneis ad basin viridescentibus, apicibus griseis: rostro nigro. Long. tota circa 3-2, 
alee 1°85, caudex 1°15, rostri a rictu 0°6. 
@ mari similis, sed corpore toto subtus fusco-griseo, hypochondriis viridi lavatis. (Descr. maris et femine ex 
Coban, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Delattre 1, de Oca"), Cordova (Boucard *); Guatemata 12, Coban 
(Skinner ", O. S. & F. D. G.8°), Volcan de Fuego (0. S. & F. D. G9 10). Pie de la 
Cuesta in San Marcos, Toliman in Solola (W. B. Richardson*); Nicaracua, Mata- 
galpa (W. B. R.? 4). 
This distinct species was discovered by Delattre at Jalapa in Mexico !, where, however, 
he says that it is very rare in the forests, seeking its food from the wild flowers of that 
district. De Oca confirms this statement of its occurrence near Jalapa 1, but in none 
of the large Mexican collections we have recently examined have we found an example, 
nor does its name occur in the original list of de Oca’s collections (P. Z. S. 1859, p. 367). 
In the British Museum are three skins of this species which were supposed to have 
reached Gould from Floresi, and we believe they once formed part of his collection. 
From the mode of preparation of these skins we now think that they were made up by 
Delattre, and therefore perhaps typical specimens. On the other hand, if they were 
from Delattre, they may have been shot in Coban and not in Mexico at all. 
In Guatemala A. typica is a characteristic species of the upland forests, being abun- 
dant at certain seasons in the ravines of the volcanoes amongst the second-growth 
woods. Near Coban it was found in all the mountain hollows, feeding from the Salvie 
in flower in November. 
