iQiS. Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory. 195 



Genus CYNANTHUS Swainson. 



Cynanthus Swainson, Philos Mag. N. S., I, 1827, p. 441 (Type C. latirostris 

 Swainson)." 



*Cynanthus latirostris Swainson. Broad-billed Humming Bird, 



Cynanthus latirostris Swainson, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, 1827, p. 441 ("table 

 lands" of Mexico); Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 191 1, p. 370. 



Circe latirostris Gould, Mon. Trochil., V, 1861, pi. 338. 



lache latirostris Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 235; Am. Orn. Union Check List, 

 1886, No. 441; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 60. 



?Hylocharis magica^ Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Trochil, 1866, p. 38 

 (Mazatlan). 



'^lache magica Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 61. 



Range: Mexico, except extreme southern States (Oaxaca, Chiapas, 

 Yucatan, etc.) and north to southern Arizona). 



10: Mexico (Trixpam, Jalisco, 3, Oposura Sonora i); Arizona 

 (Huachuca Mts. 4, Calabasas i, Catalina Mts. 2). 



Cynanthus lawrencei (Berlepsch). Lawrence's Humming Bird. 



lache lawrencei Berlepsch, Ibis, 1887, p. 292 (Tres Marias Islands, western 



Mexico); Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 61. 

 Cynanthus lawrencei Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 19 11, p. 373. 



Range: Tres Marias Islands (Cleofa and Maria Madre Islands) off 

 western Mexico. 



Csrnanthus doubledayi (Bourcier). Doubleday's Humming Bird. 



Trochilus doubledayi Bourcier, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, p. 46 (" Rio Negro " 



= State of Guerrero, Mexico?"). 

 Circe doubeldayi Gould, Mon. Trochil., V, i860, pi. 339 (Chinantla, Guerrero). 

 lache doubledayi Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 235; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. 



Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 62. 

 lache nitida Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1889, p. 240 (Acapulco and Rio Papagaio, 



Guerrero. 



Range: Southwestern Mexico in States of Guerrero and Oaxaca?^ 

 Genus BASILINNA Boie. 



Gasilinna Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 546 (Type Trochilus leucotis Vieillo ). 



*Basilinna leucotis leucotis ( Vieillot). White-eared Humming Bird. 



Trochilus leucotis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., ed. 2, XXIII, 1818, p. 428 

 ("Bresil" = Mexico?). 



^ Cf. Stone, Auk, 1907, p. 192. 



'' Cf. Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 50, V, 1911, p. 373, footnote. 



" The type probably came from vState of Guerrero, Mexico. Ridgway suggests 

 the possibility of the Oaxaca bird being separable subspecifically {cf. Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., No. 50, V, 191 1, p. 376 footnote). 



