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[Baucis] abeillsei Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 88. 



[Baucis] aheillei Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s., xxii, 1876, 221. — Heine 

 and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Om., 1890, 187 (Guatemala). 



Daucis aheillei Boucard, Liste Ois. rec. Guat., 1878, 46. 



Adelomya aheillei Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 71. 



[TrocUlus] aheillei Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 142, no. 1840. 



A[bei!l^ea] aheillei Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 215 (monogr.). 



[Aheilleia] aheillei Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 143. 



Abeillia tyjpica? Bonaparte, Conep. Av., i, 1850, 79, in text under Ramphomicron 

 aheillei. 



Aheillia typica Elliot, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 184. — Zeledon, Cat. 

 Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 21; Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 122.— 

 Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 358, 666 (Mexico; Cobdn, VoMn 

 de Fuego, and Pie de la Cuesta, San Marcos, Guatemala). — Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 342 (Jalapa and Cordova, Vera 

 Cruz; Tolimdn in Solola, etc., Guatemala; Matagalpa, Nicaragua). — Bou- 

 card, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 55 (Jalapa; Cobdn). 



Myiaheillia typica Gould, Mon. Troch., iv, pt. viii, Oct., 1854 (vol. iv, 1861), 

 pi. 211; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 119.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1856, 287 (Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 304.— Sclater and Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1859, 128 (Coban).— Salvin, Ibis, 1860, 195, 262, 263 (Cobdn and 

 Volcdn de Fuego; habits). 



{Myiaheillia] typica Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1854, 253. 



Myiahiellia typica D'Oca, La Naturaleza, iii, 1875, 205 (Jalapa); Troq. de Max., 

 1875, pi. (10), fig. 35. 



Myiahiellia tipica D'Oca, Troq. de Mex., 1875, 47. 



Genus DAMOPHILA Reichenbach. 



[Coeligena.] /?. Damophila Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colib., March(?), 1854, 7. 



(Type, Ornismya julix Bourcier.) 

 Juliamyia Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., vi, May, 1854, 255. (Type, 



/. typica 'Bo-aaY)arte=Ornismya julise Bourcier.) 



Rather small Trochilidae (length about 78-90 mm.) with bill about 

 as long as head, straight, and terete; nasal operciili feathered; tail 

 about two-tliirds as long as wing (in female) to three-fourths as 

 long (adult males), graduated, blue-black in both sexes; adult males 

 with under ])arts of body bright metallic violet-blue, the chin and 

 throat biilUant metallic green, in abrupt contrast. 



Bill as long as head, straight, terete; culmen broadly rounded but 

 basally contracted into a narrow mesorhinal ridge; tomia smooth; 

 mandible with a narrow median lateral groove and maxilla with a 

 faint indication of a similar groove. Tarsus feathered; middle and 

 inner toes about equal in length, the outer slightly shorter, the hallux 

 slightly shorter than lateral toes; all the toes slender. Wmg about 

 three times as long as exposed culmen, the outermost primary longest. 

 Tail about two-thirds as long as wing (in females) to three-fourths 

 as long (in adult males), graduated, the rectrices rather narrow, the 

 lateral ones contracted terminally but all with rounded tip. 



