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Ornismya duponti DeOca, Los Colibris, Mex., 1875, 33. 



Trochihis duponti Jardine, Nat. Libr., Humming-birds, i, 1833, 131, pi. 26. 



M[ellisuga\ duponti Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 113. 



[Trochilus] duponti Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 146, no. 1883. 



Tryphscna dupontii Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. i, June, 1849; vol. iii, 1861, pi. 158; 

 Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 97.— Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 129 

 (Guatemala). — Salvin, Ibis, 1860, 266 (San Geronimo, Guatemala). — 

 MuLSANT and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 79. 



Triphxna duponti Herrera, La Naturaleza (2), i, 1891, 322 (Valley of Mexico). 



Tryphaena dupontii Villada, La Naturaleza, ii, 1874, 360 (Valley of Mexico). 



Triphaena duponti DeOca, Troq. de Mex., 1875, pi. (7), fig. 23. 



[Tryphaena] duponti Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 84. 



[Thaumastura] duponti Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 257. 



Thaumastura duponti Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 288 (C6rdova, 

 Vera Cruz). 



T[ilmalurd\ duponti Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 59, footnote 

 (Mexico; Guatemala). — Heine, Joum. fiir Om., 1863, 205. — Hartert, Das 

 Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 200 (monogr.). 



TUmaiura duponti Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 300 (Guatemala). — Mulsant 

 and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 1, 1877, 11, pi. 101 (Mexico; 

 Guatemala). — Boucard, Notes Troch. du Mex., 1875, 10 (C6rdova and 

 Jalapa, Vera Cruz; Oaxaca; Guatemala); Liste Ois. r^c. Guat., 1878, 46; 

 Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 20.— Elliot, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 128.— 

 Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 157 (Jalapa). — Ridgway, 

 Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1890 (1891), pi. 12 (nest).— Salvin, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., x\i, 1892, 385, 667 (Volcdn de Colima; Amula and Chilpancingo, 

 Guerrero; Jalapa, etc.. Vera Cruz; Volcdn de Santa Maria, Coban, San 

 Geronimo, and Vera Paz, Guatemala); Ibis, 1892, 327 (Matagalpa, Nicara- 

 gua). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 348. — Hartert 

 (E. and C), Novit. Zool., i, 1894, 21, 63 (Chilpancingo, Guerrero). 



[Tilmatura] duponti Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 85. — Mul- 

 sant, Cat. Ois.-Mouch., 1875, 28; Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s., xxii, 1876, 

 225.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 140. 



Ornismya coelestis Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, 276 (Mexico). 



Ornismya zemis Lesson, Rev. Zool., 1838, 315 (Mexico). 



Tilmatura lepida Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 8; Troch. Enum., 1855, 

 5, p. 711, figs. 4610-4614. 



Genus NESOPHLOX Ridg^A^ay. 



Nesophloxa Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, April 19, 1910, 55. (Type, 



Trochilus evelynx Bourcier.) 

 Egolia (not of Erichson, 1842) Mulsant and Verreaux, M^m. Soc. Imp. 



Sci. Nat. de Cherbourg, xii, (s^r. 2, tome ii), 1866, 230, in text (Classif. 



Troch., 1866, 86). (Type, Trochilus evelynse Bourcier.) 



Small Trochilidse (length about 75-90 mm.) resembling Boricha, 

 but diflfering in relatively much shorter and nearly to quite straight 

 bill (exposed culmen less than half as long as wing), and tail of adult 

 male shorter than wing. 



Bill about as long as head or slightly longer, straight or at most 

 very faintly decurved, terete ; culmen rounded except basally, where 



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