53. CTANOMTIA. 195 



Agyitria /3. Uranomitra cyancephala, Reich, Troch. Erium. p. 7, 



pi. 760. ft: 4754-5. 

 Cyanomyia verticalis, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 254, 

 Cyauomyia quadiicolor, Rp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 254 ; Gould, 3Ion. 



Troch. V. pi. 284 (May 1855) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 147 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1859, p. 386; A. Diufes, La Xat. i. p. 141 ; Villada, La Nat. ii. 



p. 362; de Oca, La Nat. iii. p. 209; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 311; 



Laicr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 292 ; Elliot, Ibis, 1876, p. 312 ; 



Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 169 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. 



Lyon, xxii. p. 204 ; Rudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 340. 

 Urauomitra quadricolor. Cab. ^- Heine, 3Ii(s. Hein. iii. p. 41 ; Elliot, 



Syn. Troch. p. 196 ; Berl. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xi. p. 561. 

 Leucolia quadricolor, Mids. Sf Verr. Class. Troch. p. 31 ; Muls. Hist. 



Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 215. 

 Uranomitra ellioti, £e)-l. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xi. p. 662. 



Acliilt male. Upper surface brownish olive with a greenish tinge, 

 greener ou the back of the neck, crown and sides of the neck glit- 

 tering blue, the latter paler ; under surface, including the under 

 tail-coverts, pure white; the tlauks under the wings tinged 

 with greyish brown ; tail shining olive-green, the lateral feathers 

 very narrowly tipped with white ; bill flesh-colour, the tip black. 

 Total length about 4 inches, wing 2-2, tail 1'25, bill 1-05. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but with the crown less bril- 

 liant. 



This species has long been known as Cyanomyia or Uranomitra 

 quadricolor (VieUl.), a name which cannot be retained for it. In 

 the first place VieiUot called two distinct species TrocMlus quad- 

 ricolor. The older of these (N. Diet. d'Hist. N, vii. p. 353, 1817) 

 applies to a Lampornis ; the other (Enc. Meth. p. 573, 1823) to 

 a bird said to have come from Trinidad, the description suiting 

 Cijanomyiafrancia' much better than the present species. Anyhow, 

 the previous use of the name T. quadricolor precludes its being 

 employed for any species of Cyanomyia. 



1 therefore retain for this species Lichtenstein's title T. verti- 

 calis, which is, according to Cabanis and Heine, applicable to 

 C. quadricolor of recent authors. I may, however, remark that I 

 suspect that Deppe's specimens may prove to belong to the same 

 form as Gould's C. vioUcejis, and in that case 0. verticalis should 

 supersede C. violiceps, and the present bird must be called C. ellioti. 



Bab. Sierras of Durango and Jalisco to the Pacific coast of 

 Mexico. 



«-/. Ad. sk. Mexico [Floresi). Salvin-Godman & 



Gould CoUs. 

 y. S ad. sk. Mazatlan, Mexico, Dec. (A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Forrer). 

 h. (5 ad. sk. San Bias, Mexico, March {W. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



B. Richardson). 

 /. cJ ad. sk. Zapotlan, Jalisco, Mexico, Dec. Salvin-Godman Coll, 



( W. B. R.). 



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