CALOTHORAX. 351 
(White, de Oca , Sumichrast 8, Herrera 1°), San Antonio Coapa, Hacienda Eslava, 
Tetelco and Ixtapalapa in the Valley of Mexico (F. Ferrari-Perez"), Tupataro in 
Guanajuato (Dugés, in U. S. Nat. Mus.), Puebla, San Andres Chalchicomula 
(Boucard "), Orizaba (Sumichrast *), Cordova (Sallé*). 
The Mexican highlands seem to be the chief resort of this species, its range extending 
from the Sierras of the north-west to the Valley of Mexico and the country imme- 
diately adjoining. It is also recorded in the first list of M. Sallé’s collections made 
when he resided chiefly at Cordova. The birds then obtained were probably from the 
neighbouring mountains, 
De Oca says !° that C. lucifer, is peculiar to the valley of Mexico, where it lives from 
the commencement of spring to the end of autumn. He adds that it is never seen 
near Jalapa. We have seen specimens from the Valley of Mexico shot in January, so 
that this bird is probably in that neighbourhood throughout the year, shifting its 
ground according to the florescence of the vegetation. 
M. Boucard 1’, who observed this species at Puebla and elsewhere, says that it feeds 
chiefly from the flowers of a Convolvulus which grows in the upland cold country. 
Like so many of its family it is a very quarrelsome bird. 
2. Calothorax pulcher. 
Calothorax pulchra, Gould, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1859, iv. p. 97*; Mon. Troch. iii. t. 144 (May 
1860) *; Scl. P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 386°; de Oca, La Nat. iii. p. 105*; Boucard, Ann. Soc. 
Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 22°; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 391°. 
C. pulchri: similis quoad colores corporis gule plumis lateralibus minus elongatis, rostro breviore et minus 
robusto, caude quoque rectrice utrinque extima normali ad apicem vix angustiore et nullo modo acuta, 
distinguenda. 
@ minor et rostro breviore. 
Hab. Mexico, Venta de Zopilote in Guerrero (Mrs. H. H. Smith®), Putla (Rébouch *), 
Oaxaca (Boucard 12°, Fenochio®), Tehuantepec (W. B. Richardson ®). 
The discovery of this species is due to M. Boucard, who first found it at Oaxaca, as 
he tells us, on 28th June, 1857°. He forwarded his specimens to M. Sallé, who 
sent them on to Gould, who described ! and figured? them. According to M. Boucard . 
this bird feeds from the flowers of a cactus which is used to form the hedges surrounding 
the properties of the Indians of Oaxaca. 
Female specimens sent us by Mrs. Herbert Smith from Guerrero we believe belong 
to this species, and according to M. Boucard it is found at Putla, whence examples 
were forwarded to him by M. Rébouch>. The southern limit of its range extends to 
Tehuantepec, whence Mr. Richardson sent us two males in abraded plumage, which 
were shot in February °. 
