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344. Pyrrhoph^na cerviniventris, Gould. 



Amazilia cerviniventris, Gould ........... Vol. V. PL 309. 



Pyrrhophaena cerviniventris, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 36, note. 

 Habitat, Mexico. In the neighbourhood of Cordova, according to M. Salle. 



345. Pyrrhoph^na castaneiventris. 



AmaziUa castaneiventris, Gould ........... Vol. V. PL 310. 



Habitat, New Granada. 



346. Pyrrhoph^na Riefferi. 



Amazilia Riefferi Vol. V. PL 311. 



Ornismya amazili, Delatt. Echo du Monde Savant, No. 45, Juin 15, 1843, col. 1069. 



Trochilus arsino'ides, Sauc. in Mus. of Berlin. 



Pyrrhophaena Riefferi, C^b. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 36. 



Dubusi, Cab. et Hein. ib. p. 36. 



suavis, Cab. et Hein. ib. p. 36, note. 



Habitat. Southern Mexico, Guatemala, and along the Andes to Ecuador. 



Nearly thirty specimens are now before me from these various countries, among them M. Bourcier's type 

 specimen of his Trochilus Diibusi, also specimens collected by Warszewicz in Costa Rica; and I see nothing to 

 induce a belief that there is any specific difference between those found in Mexico, Guayaquil in Ecuador, or in 

 any of the intermediate countries. I admit that differences occur both in size and in the fringing of the outer tail- 

 feathers : generally speaking, they are darker in the Costa Rican and New Granadian specimens ; but I have some 

 quite as bronzy from those countries as the generality of specimens found in Honduras and Guatemala. These 

 latter are the birds to which the term Duhusi has been applied. 



347. Pyrrhoph^na beryllina. 



Amazilia beryllina Vol. V. PL 312. 



Habitat, Southern Mexico. M Botta found it at Orizaba, and M. Salle at Cordova. 



348. Pyrrhophaena Devillei. 



Amazilia Devillei Vol. V. PL 313. 



Saucerottia maria, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 255 ? 



Chlorestes Mariae, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pi. 695. fig. 4549. 



Panychlora Mariae^ Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 49, note. 



Amazilia Diimerili, Salv. Ibis, vol. ii. p. 270. 



Habitat. Guatemala. 



Speaking of this species, which by some inadvertence he has called A. Dumerili instead of A. Devillei^ Mr. Salvin 

 says, ^' During the months of July, August, and September, one of its most favourite resorts was the western 

 boundary of the Llano of Duenas, which, starting from the village and bounded to the eastward by the river 

 Guacalate, extends, sweeping by the Volcan de Fuego, almost to the Hacienda of Capertillo, its southern extremity. 

 Dispersed all over this plain is found, in groves, patches, and isolated trees, a Tree Convolvulus, bearing a white 

 flower, and attaining an average height of about 25 or 30 feet. During the above months this elegant species might 

 be seen in almost every tree, some feeding among the flowers, some settled quietly on a dead branch, uttering their 

 low, plaintive, hardly to be called musical, yet certainly cheering song, others less peacefully occupied in a war of 

 expulsion, driving out by vehement cries and more efi^ectual blows the tenant of a tree, which in its turn wreaks 

 vengeance on some weaker or unexpectant antagonist." — Ibis, vol. ii. p. 270. 



349. Pyrrhoph^na viridigaster. 



Amazilia viridigaster ............. Vol. V. PL 314. 



Chlorestes viridiventris, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pi. 699. figs. 4564-65. 

 Hemithylaca viridiventris, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 38. 

 Habitat. New Granada. Common in the neighbourhood of Bogota. 



350. Pyrrhoph^na iodura. 

 Trochilus iodurus, Sauc. in Mus. Hein. 

 Saucerottia iodura, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p. 8. 



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