3o8 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. XIII. 



Genus ABEILLIA Bonaparte. 



Abeillia Bonaparte, Consp. Av., I, 1849, p. 79 (Type Abellia typica Bonaparte = 

 Ornismya abeillei Delattre and Lesson). 



*Abeillia abeillei {Delattre and Lesson). Abeille's Hummingbird. 



Ornismya abeillei Delattre and Lesson Rev. Zool., 1839, p. 16 (Jalapa, Vera 



Cruz, Mexico). 

 Abeillia typica Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 184; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 



XVI, 1892, p. 358. 

 Myiabeillia typica Gould, Mon. Trochil., IV, 1861, pi. 211. 

 Abeillea abeillei Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 215. 

 Abeillia abeillei Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 191 1, p. 517. 



Range: Southeastern Mexico, Guatemala and northern Nicaragua. 

 2: "Mexico" i; Guatemala i. 



Genus MICROCHERA Gould. 



Microchera Gould, Mon. Trochil., pt. XVI, 1858, text to pi. n6 (Type Mellisuga 

 albo-coronata Lawrence). 



*Microchera albo-coronata (Lawrence). Veraguan Snow-cap. 



Mellisuga albo-coronata Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. H., N. Y., VI, 1855, P- 37» 



pi. 4 (Veragua, Panama). 

 Microchera albocoronata Goxjld, Mon. Trochil., II, 1861, pi. 116; Salvin, Cat. 



Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 66; Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 104; 



Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am. Aves, II, 1892, p. 268. 

 Microchera albo-coronata Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 1911, p. 581. 



Range: Western Panama and southern Costa Rica? 

 i: Panama (Veragua). 



*Microchera parvirostris Lawrence. Costa Rican Snow-cap. 



Panychlora parvirostris Lawrence, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1865, p. 39 

 (Angostura, Costa Rica). 



Microchera parvirostris Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1880, pi. 30; Salvin, Cat. Bds. 

 Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 67; Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am. Aves, 

 II, 1892, p. 269; Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., VI, 1910, p. 551; Hartert, 

 Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 216; Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 1911 

 p. 582. 



Range: Eastern Costa Rica and Nicaragua. 

 3: Costa Rica (Carrillo i, "Costa Rica" 2). 



