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ground level to the tops of the trees. Like many of its kind, it is 

 highly pugnacious and is constantly driving at all others that come 

 near. As it hovers in the air before one, a common habit, the brown 

 tail and under tail coverts form a conspicuous mark. All hummers 

 are known to the natives in this region as chupa miel. 



On March 27, 1939, 1 saw one working at a nest on a horizontal limb 

 25 feet above an open trail in the monte. On April 2, at camp, one 

 came to pick up tiny fluffs of cotton that had blown from my skinning 

 table, and on April 10 in the heavy forest at Arroyo Corredor I saw 

 one fly to its nest with a bit of plant down in its bill. The nest was 

 placed in a little bend in a branch of a small shrub 3 feet from the 

 ground, for support being built completely around the twig. The 

 structure was made of soft, whitish plant downs, covered externally 

 with green bits of hepatics stuck on with spider webs. It contained 

 two fresh eggs, pure white in color, that measure as follows: 14.3 by 

 9.2 and 14.5 by 9.2 mm. 



AMAZILIA YUCATANENSIS CERVINIVENTRIS Gould 



Amazilius cerviniventris Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, Nov. 11, 1856, p. 150 

 (C6rdoba, Veracruz). 



Four specimens of this hummer were secured at Tres Zapotes on 

 March 7, 1939, and January 18 and 25, and March 4, 1940. I ob- 

 served them about flowers in bushy growth, the brown tail and ab- 

 domen being prominent. The abundance of this species in the 

 region is uncertain from existing information, as it mingles with the 

 omnipresent A. t. tzacatl. 



CAMPYLOPTERUS HEMILEUCURUS (Lichtenstein) 



Trochilus hemileucurus Lichtenstein, Preis-Verzeichniss mexicanischer Vogel, 

 1830, p. 1 (Mexico). 



A fine series of males of this beautiful sabre-wing was taken by 

 Carriker on Cerro de Tuxtla on March 11, 13, 19, and 23 and April 

 1, 1940, at elevations of between 1,000 and 2,500 feet. The birds 

 were found in the undergrowth in heavy forest, rarely being seen 

 above 10 feet from the ground. They were not abundant and were 

 very shy. The call is a loud chirp. A female was shot between 

 2,500 and 3,000 feet on Volcan San Martin on April 21. 



PAMPA PAMPA EXCELLENS Wetmore 



Pampa pampa excellent Wetmore, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 54, Decem- 

 ber 8, 1941, p. 207 (Volcan San Martin, Sierra de Tuxtla, Veracruz, 

 Mexico). 



This fine new subspecies is based on four males collected by Car- 

 riker, the first shot on March 13, 1940, at about 2,000 feet on Cerro 



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