BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 517 



ABEILLIA ABEILLEI (Delattre and Lesson). 



ABEILLfS HUMMING BIRD. 



Adult male. — Above metallic bronze-green or greenish ])ronze, 

 including middle pair of rectrices; rest of tail black, faintly glossed 

 with bluish or bronzy, the rectrices tipped with brownish gray (most 

 broadly on outermost), and with basal half (more or less) of outer web 

 rather tlull greenish bronze or bronze-green; remiges purplish dusky or 

 dull dusky slate faintly glossed with purplish; a small postocular spot 

 of white; chin and upper throat brilliant metallic emerald green or yel- 

 lowish green; lower throat velvety black in position a, dusky metallic 

 bronze-green in position c, passing into duller black or dusky on 

 chest, the remaining under paits deep brownish gray more or less 

 glossed or overlaid with metallic bronze-green, except on abdomen; 

 under tail-coverts metallic bronze-green centrally, broadly margined 

 with deep bro\vnish gray; bill dull black; iris dark brown; feet 

 brownish (in dried sldns); length (skins), 73-86 (80); wing, 44-50.5 

 (47.8); tail, 27.5-33 (30.3); culmen, 10-11.5 (10.6).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but lateral rectrices dis- 

 tinctly tipped with pale brownish gray, and under parts pale gray, 

 spotted or glossed with metallic green or bronze-green on sides; 

 length (skins), 71-72 (71.3); wing, 41.5-46 (43.8); tail, 26.5-27 

 (26.8); culmen, 11-12 (11.5).^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Cordova; 

 Orizaba) and Chiapas (Tumbala); Guatemala (Coban; Guatemala 

 City; Volcan de Fuego; Pie de la Cuesta, San Marcos; Toliman, 

 Solola); northern Nicaragua (Matagalpa). 



Ornismya abeillei Delattre and Lesson, Rev. Zool., 1839, 16 (Jalapa, Vera 



Cruz, Mexico). 

 M[ellisugd\ abeillei Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 112. 

 [RaviphomicTori] aheilleii Bonaparte, Consp. A v., i, 1850, 79. 

 [Basilinna^ y. Baucis abeillei Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 13. 

 Basilinna abeillei Reichenbach, Troch. Enum., 1855, 11. 

 B[aucis] abeillei Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 72 (Guatemala). 

 Baucis abeillei Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 23 (C6rdova, Vera 



Cruz); Notes Troch. du Mex., 1875, 10 (C6rdova; Guatemala). — Mulsant 



and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iii, livr. 2, 1876, 143; iv, livr. 3, 



1878, 219. 



