lyo Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. XIII. 



Florisuga mellivora Gould, Mon. Trochil., II, 1861, pi. 113; Salvin, Cat. Bds. 



Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 329; RiDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 50, V, 



I9ii,p. 576. 

 Florisuga flahellifera Gould, Mon. Trochil., II, 1857, Vol. II, 1861, pi. 114 



(Mexico). 

 Florisuga sallei Boucard, The Humming Bird, No. 3, 1891, p. 18 (S. Mexico). 

 Florisuga guianensis Boucard, Gen. Humming Birds, 1895, p. 340 (British 



Guiana). 

 Florisuga peruviana Boucard, Gen. Humming Birds, 1895, p. 340, in text (Peru). 



Range: Southeastern Mexico to Panama and nearly the whole of 

 South America, south to Peru and southern Brazil, also islands of 

 Trinidad, Aruba and Cariacou. 



18: British Guiana 4; Aruba Island i; Colombia 7; Ecuador 2; and 

 Peru 5. 



*Florisuga mellivora tobagensis" Ridgway. Tobago Jacobin. 



Florisuga mellivora tohagensis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXXIII, 1910, 

 p. 55 (Island of Tobago, W. I.); Id., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 50, V, 191 1, 

 p. 578, footnote. 



Range: Island of Tobago, W. I. 

 2: Tobago Island. 



Genus MELANOTROCHILUS Deslongch. 



Melanotrochilus Deslongchampo, Guided. Naturaliste, 1880, p. 7 (Type Trochilus 

 fuscus Vieill.). 



*Melanotrocliilus fuscus ( Vieill.). Dusky Jacobin. 



Trochilus fuscus ViEiLLOT, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., VII, 1817, p. 348 (BrazU). 



Florisuga atra Gould, Mon. Trochil., II, 1851, pi. 115. 



Florisuga jusca Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 48; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 



XVI, 1892, p. 331. 

 Melanotrochilus fuscus Hellmayr, Verh. der Ornith. Gesell. Bayern, XII, 191 5, 



p. 152. 



Range: Eastern Brazil (Pemambuco to Rio Grande do Sol). 

 4: Brazil (Bahia). 



Genus APHANTOCHROA Gould. 



Aphantochroa Gould, Mon. Trochil., II, 1854, pi. 54 (Type Trochilus cirrochloris 

 Vieillot). 



*Aphantochroa cirrochloris {Vieill.). Sombre Humming Bird. 



Trochilus cirrochloris ViEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXIII, 1818, p. 430 

 ("BresU"). 



* Florisuga mellivora tohagensis Ridgway: "Similar to F. m. mellivora (Linn.), 

 but larger. Wing, 70.5; tail, 38.5 mm.' (Ridgway). 



