246 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Metallura ftoriceps Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibri, 1854, S (in list of 

 species). — Reichenbach, Troch. Enum., 1855, 5 (in list of species). 



Adelomyia floriceps Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool., (2), VI, 1854, 253 (in 

 list of species). — Gould, Mon. Trochilicke, III, 1855, ph 20 - and text (San 

 Antonio; descr. ; references). — Mulsant and Verreaux, Mem. Soc. Imp. 

 Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, XII, 1S66, 215 (in list of species). 



Anthocephala ftoriceps Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Heineanum, III. i860, 72, 

 footnote (references). — Gould, Introd. Trochilidoe, oct. ed., 1861. 115 (ref- 

 erences; range). — Gould, Mon. Trochilidae, I, 1861, lxxviii (references; 

 range). — Sclater and Salvin, Norn. Avium Neotrop., 1873, 87 (range). — 

 Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s., XXII, 1875, 220 (in list of species). 

 — Mulsant, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, III, 1876, 125 (descr.; references; 

 range). — Elliot, Smithsonian Contr. to Knowledge, XXIII, Art. V, 1879. 183 

 (syn. ; descr.; ex Gould; range). — Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1881, 595 (San 

 Jose; crit.). — 'VON Berlepsch, Journ. f. Orn., XXXV, 1887, 335 (Valle de 

 Upar [error!] fide Gould and Simons). — Boucard, Humming Bird. II, 1892, 

 74 ("Santa Marta," in range). — Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVI, 1S92, 

 172 (San Antonio and San Jose; descr.; references). — Salvin. Bull. Brit. 

 Orn. Club, III, 1893, 8, in text (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta; crit.). — 

 Boucard, Gen. Humming Birds, 1893, 5 1 (references; descr.; range). — 

 Simon, Cat. Fam. Trochilida, 1897, 23 (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. in 

 range). — Simon, Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, (3), XXVII, 1897, 173 

 (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in range). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, XII, 1898, 158 (Pueblo Viejo). — Bangs, Auk, XVI, 1899, 137, in text 

 (Santa Marta [region], 138 (San Antonio, San Jose, and Pueblo Viejo). — 

 Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XIII, 1899, 94 (Pueblo Viejo, Santa 

 Cruz, La Concepcion, San Francisco, and Chirua ; plum.). — Dubois, Syn. 

 Avium, I, 1900, 146 (ref. descr.: range). — Hartert, Tierreich, Lief. 9, 

 1900, 102 (references; descr.; range). — Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, II, 1900, 

 119 (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in range). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., XIII. 1900, 140 (Valparaiso). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds 

 S. Am., I, 1912, 124 (ref. descr.; range). — Simon, Cat. Fam. TrochilitlEe, 

 1921, 139 (descr.), 347 (references; range). 



Simonula floriceps Cory, Field Mus. Zool. Series, XIII, 1918, 226 (references; 

 range). 

 Four specimens: Las Taguas, Pueblo Viejo, and Chirua. 



One adult and one immature male, and two adult females. Females 

 are slightly paler, less grayish, below. 



This was the first of the several species of hummingbirds peculiar 

 to the Santa Marta region to come to the notice of naturalists, and 

 still remains one of the rarest. Gould tells us that his type, which he 

 received from Mr. Linden of Brussels, had been collected by the 

 brother-in-law of that gentleman near the Indian village of San An- 



