BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 377 



II[ylocha7-is] doubledayi Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 114. — Cabanis and 

 Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 144, part ("Rio Negro"). 



[Thaumatias] doubledayi Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 78. 



[Hylocharis. /?. Cyanophaia] doubledayi Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 10. 



[Sapphironia] doubledayi Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 256. 



Circe doxiblcdayi Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xx, Sept. 1, 1860 (vol. v), pi. 339 (Clii- 

 nantla, Guerrero); Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 169. — D'Oca, La Natura- 

 leza, iii, 1875, 302, pi.; Troq. de Mex., 1875, pi. (12), fig. 45.— Mulsant and 

 Verreaux, Ilist. Nat. Ois.-Moucli., ii, livr. 1, 1875, 44 (Chinantla). — Law- 

 rence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 33 (Chihuitan, Oaxaca).— Sumi- 

 CHRAST, La Naturaleza, v, 1881, 250 (Chihuitdn and Juchitan, Oaxaca). 



[Circe] doubledcayi Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 208. 



[Circe] doubledayi Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 93. 



lache doubledayi Elliot, Glassif. and Synoi). Troch., 1879, 235. — Salvin, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 62 (Chinantla, Guerrero). — Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 259 (Venta del Pelegrino, Rincon, 

 Dos Arroyos, and Acapulco, Guerrero; Chihuitan, Juchitan, Salina C'ruz, 

 and Tehudntepec, Oaxaca). — Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1894, 111 (Chi- 

 huitan). — Hartert, Novit. Zool., iv, 1897, 530 (crit.). 



I[achc] doubledayi Ridgway, Miin. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 320; Rep. U. S. Nat 

 Mus. for 1890 (1891), 373 (diagnosis, etc.). 



P[haeoptila] doubledayi Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 64 (monogr.). 



[Phivoptila] doubledayi Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 110. 



[Pluieoptila] doubledayi Simon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 15. 



lache nilida Salvin and Godman, Ibis, April, 1889, 240 (Acapulco and Rio Papa- 

 gaio, Guerrero; coll Salvin and Godman). — Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xvi, 1892, 62 (Venta del Pelegrino, Rincon, Dos Arroyos, and Acapulco, 

 Guerrero; Salina Cruz and Tehuantepec, Oaxaca). — Boucard, Gen. Hum. 

 Birds, 1894, 111. 



Jaehe nitida Hartert (E. and C), Novit. Zool., i, 1894, 61 (Dos Arroyos, near 

 Acapulco, Guerrero). 



[Phaeoptila] nitida Simon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 15. 



I[ache] nitida Ridgway, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1S90 (1891), 373 (diagnosis, etc.) 



Genus BASILINNA Boie. 



Basilinna Boie, Tsis, 1831, 546. (Type, Trochilus leucotis Vieillot.) 

 Basilina (emendation?) Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., 1849, pi. xxxix. 

 Heliop&dica « Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xv. May, 1858. (Typo, Trochilus melanotis 



Swainson = T. leucotis Vieillot.) 

 neliopedica (emendation) Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, April, 1859, 130. 



Similar to Hylocharis, but wing relatively longer (three times as 

 long as exposed citlmen) and style of coloration very different, the 

 side of head witli a broad white postociilar streak and a black (male) 

 or dusky (female) auricular stripe. 



Bill longer than head, broad and depressed basally, faintly decurved; 

 culmen broadly rounded but contracted basally into a narrow meso- 

 rhinal ridge; tomia smooth; mancHble with a rather distinct median 

 lateral groove. Nasal operculum bioad, very tumid, wholly nude, 

 the frontal feathering forming a transverse line across base of fore- 

 head. Tarsus feathered; anterior toes about equal in length, the 



^''/Zl-oj-, sol, et TTrt.'f'J.'A-or, juvenilis. (Gould.) 



