784 BIRDS OF CENTRAL MEXICO —JOUY. 



Fiiniily DENDKOCOLAPTID.E. 

 66. Dendrornis mentalis Bainl. 



Only met with at the Barranca Veltran, sonthern Jalisco, wliere it 

 is apparently not very common, as only one specimen was seen. This 

 was taken March 24. 



Iris dark brown ; npper mandible dusky olivaceous, under mandible 

 lilaceous; tarsi and toes olive. 



Family TROCHILID^. 



67. CcEligena clemenciae Less, 

 Taken at Cuernavaca, Morelos, September 24. 



68. Trochilus colubris Limi. 



Very abundant at Cuernavaca, Morelos, during the whole of Septem- 

 ber. 



69. Cyanomyia ellioti (BerL). 



A common species in the vicinity of Guadalajara ; they were taken 

 at Lake Ohajjala, February 10, and were found (|uite abundant at the 

 Barranca Ibarra, where specimens Avere collected in March. A female 

 from Chapala has the throat stained a dirty yellow from contact with 

 the pollen of some plant. These specimens appear to differ from violi- 

 ceps in having a longer and broader bill, asAvell as having a shining 

 green tail instead of bronzy red, as in the latter species. 



70. Cyanomyia violiceps Gould. 



This species was quite abundant in Cuernavaca, Morelos, from the 

 latter i)art of August to the first week in September, during which 

 time quite a number of specimens were taken. 



71. Amazilia beryllina (Licbt.). 



Taken at Cuernavaca, Morelos, September 3. Apparently not very 

 common. 



72. lache latirostris (Swains.). 



Taken at Hacienda Angostura, San Luis Potosi, December 10; also 

 at the Barranca Ibarro, Jalisco, March 10, M'here it was a common 

 species. Base of bill carmine. 



73. Chlorostilbon auriceps (Jouhl. 



Two specimens of this rather rare species were taken at San Marcos, 

 southern Jalisco, March 25. Other specimens seen at about the same 

 time would indicate that this locality, the base of the volcano of Colima, 

 was the proper habitat of the species. 



