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Remedios, Antioquia; Las Cruces), Ecuador (B^eza; Quito; Sarayacu; 

 Nanegal; Chimbo; Parambo), Venezuela (Yauca, Caura; Nericagua; 

 Munduapo; Suapure; La Prieion), Trinidad, Tobago,*^ Aruba, Car- 

 riacou, British Guiana (Demerara; Merume Mountains; Atapuroni 

 River), and Cayenne to Brazil (Pernambuco; Para; Rio Negro; 

 Ilumaytha; Borba; Arumatheua, Tocantins; Rio de Janeiro, and 

 Peru (Pebas; Iquitos; Xeberos; Chamicuros; Yurimaguas; Rio Javari; 

 Callacate) . 



[Trochilus] viellivorus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 121; ed. 12, i, 176C, 

 193 (based on White-bellied Humming Bird, Avis mellivora, ventre albo Edwards, 

 Nat. Hist., i, pi. 35, upper fig.).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 499.— 

 Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 310. 



Trochilus mellivorus Audebert and Vieillot, Ois. Dor^s, i, 1801, 55, pi. 23 

 (Cayenne; Guiana). — Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 82. — Vieillot, Nouv. 

 Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 3G0.— Vigors, Zool. Beechey's Voy., 1839, 25 

 (Rio Janeiro, Brazil; habits; food). — Cabanis, in Schomburgk's Reis. Brit. 

 Guiana, iii, 1848, 706.— Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 339. 



T[rochilus] mellivorus Vieillot, Tabl. Enc. Meth., ii, 1822, 562. 



Ornismya mellivora Lesson, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., 1829, pp. xxiii, 90, pis. 21, 

 22; Index Gen. etSynop. Troch., 1832, p. xx (Guiana; Brazil; "Martinique")- 



[Florisuga] mellivorus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 73; Rev. et Mag. de 

 Zool., 1854, 253. 



[Florisuga] mellivora Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 83. — Mul- 

 SANT, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 212.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 

 102. 



Florisuga mellivora Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. ii, 1851; vol. ii, 1861, pi. 113; Introd. 

 Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 80.— Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 14; Troch. 

 Enum., 1855, 12.— Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 53 (Belize, Brit. 

 Honduras). — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 128 (Guatemala); Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1864, 365 (Lion Hill, Panama); 1867, 584 (Para and Cobati, Rio 

 Negro, Brazil); 1868, 628 (Venezuela); 1870, 837 (San Pedro, Honduras); 

 1873, 287 (Xeberos, Chyavetas, Chamicuros, and Pebas, e. Peru); 1879, 529 

 (RemMios, Antiocpifa, Colombia). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 

 95 (Nanegal, Ecuad6r); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 295 (Cayenne).— Taylor, Ibis, 

 1863, 91 (TrinidM).— Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 47; 

 Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., ii, livr. 3, 1876, 176 (n. Brazil to e. Peru, Ecuador, 

 and Mexico); iv, livr. 4, 1878, 204 (synonymy).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1867, 155 (Cordillera de Tol6 and Santiago de Veragua, Panama); 

 Ibis, 1872, 319 (Chontales, Nicaragua); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 329, 

 665 (Belize, etc., Brit. Honduras; Choctum, Guatemala; Chontales, Nica- 

 ragua; Costa Rica; Volcdn de Chiriquf, Cordillera de Tolc, Santiago, Lion 

 Hill, and Paraiso, Panamd; etc.).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 

 292 (Lion Hill, Panamd); ix, 1868, 122 (Costa Rica); Proc. Best. Soc. N. H., 

 xiv, 1871, 284 ("Tres Marias," error; see Berlepsch, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 xi, 1888, 561); Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 291 ("Tres Marias ") .—La y- 

 ARD, Ibis, 1863, 388 (Para, Brazil).— Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., i. Abth., 1868,30; 

 iv. Abth., 1870, 481.— Frantzius, Joum. fiir Orn., 1869, 315 (Costa Rica).— 

 BoucARD, Notes Troch. du Mex., 1875, 2 (Lana, Choapdm, Oaxaca; Guate- 



« The Tobago bird has, however, been separated on account of its much larger 

 size. (Florisuga mellivora tobagensis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, April 

 19, 1910, 55 (Tobago; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



