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greenish, the apical portion steel-blue and the ti])s white ; bill 

 black, mandible except the tip fleshy. 



Specimens from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec agree with /. ni- 

 t'ula rather than with /. douhlcdaiji, of which at present I have 

 only seen the specimen figured by Gould. A larger series may 

 ])rove that the two birds are inseparable. 



Hub. S.W. Mexico, between the Sierra Madre del Sur, Guerrero, 

 and the Pacific Ocean ; Tehuantepec. 



a-c. J ad. sk. Venta del Pelegrioo, Guerrero, Sal vin-Godman Coll. 

 Oct. {Mrs. H. H. Smith). 



d. 5ad.sk. Piincon, Guerrero, Oct. {Mrs. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



H. H. Smith). 



e. d ad. sk. Dos Arroyos. Guerrero, Oct. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Mrs. H. H. Smith). 



f. 5 ad.sk. Acapulco, Guerrero, Sept. (J/rs. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



H. H. Smith). 

 (I, h. cJ ad. sk. Saliua Cruz, Tehuantepec, Feb. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( W. B. Richardson). 

 i,j.(}ai.;k.cS Tehuantepec, Feb. (TT. i?. i?.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 juv. ; I. $ ad. 

 sk. 



11. PH^OPTILA. 



Type. 

 Pbffioptila, Gould, Mon. Troch. v. pi. -340 (July 1861) ; 



id. Intr. Troch. p. 169 P. sordida. 



Doleromyia (Pheeoptilia), Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Monches, 



i. p. 207. 



Range. South-western Mexico. 



1. Phseoptila sordida. 



Cyanomyia (?) sordida, Gould, Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. 1859, ix. p. 97 ; 



Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 386. 

 Uranomitra sordida. Cab. 4" Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 41. 

 Phfeoptila sordida, Gould, Mon. Troch. v. pi. 340 (July 1861) ; id. 



Intr. Troch. p. 169; de Oca., La Nat. iii. p. 210 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch. 



p. 10 ; Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 482. 

 Leucolia sordida, 3Iuls. ^ Verr. Class. Troch. p. 35. 

 Doleromyia sordida, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 207 ; id. 



Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 204. 

 Phffioptlla zonura, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 170 : de Oca, La Nat. iii. 



p. 304. 

 Hylocharis sordida, Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 152. 



Adult male. Upper surface dull shining green, darker on the 

 crown, ear-coverts blackish ; under surface dark greyish brown, 

 darker on the throat, paler on the under tail-coverts ; tail like the 

 back but darker. Total length about 4-2 inches, wing 2-1 • tail 

 central rectrices 1*2, lateral 1*5; bill 1. 



Female. Paler than the male on the under surface, outer rectrices 

 greyish, the tips greyish white and with a subterminal black band. 



P. zonura was based upon a specimen in the Loddiges Collection 



