264 TEOCHILID.^. 



mediis cinereo terminatis : rostro earneo ad apicem nigro. Long, tota circa 3-3, alse 1-7, caudte rectr. 

 med. 0-65, reutr. lat. 1-4, rostri a rictu 0-7. 

 2 supra nitenti-viridis, pileo obsouriore : subtus sordide griseo-albida, regione auricular! fusca, rectricibiis 

 mediis et duabus utrinque proximis nitenti-viridibus, tribus utrinque externis griseo terminatis et fascia 

 subterminali ehalybeo-caerulea notatis, extima utrinque quoque medialiter cinerea. Long, tota circa 3-0, 

 ate 1'75, Cauda rectr. med. 0-9, rectr. lat. 1-1, rostri a rictu 0-7. (Descr. maris et feminse ex Cordova, 

 Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



Eab. Mexico, Tampico {W. B. Eichardson^), Misantla, Hacienda de los Alixcos and 

 Vera Cruz (F. D. G. »), Jalapa {Delattre 2, de Oca ^ ^, Trujillo »), Coatepec {de Oca, 

 Trvjillo), Mirador [Sartorius, in U. S. Nat. Mus.), Cordova (de Oca, Salle, 6'umi- 

 chrast i°), Orizaba [le Strange), Atoyac {Mrs. H. 11. Smith), Playa Vicente {Trujillo % 

 Valley of Mexico {Herrera'^^), Chimalapa, Tehuantepec {W. B. Richardson^), 

 GnichicQ-vi {Sumichrast ^^ ^^), N. Yucatan {G. F. Gaumer^), Merida {Schoft, in 

 U. S. Nat. Mus.), Tabi {F. B. G. «), Aguada de Shkolak {Stone lO) ; British Hox- 

 DURAS, Orange Walk {G. F. G. ^), Belize {Blancaneaux ^) ; Guatemala ^ {Belattre, 

 Skinner^), Duenas^*, Volcan de Fuego, San Geronimo, Coban, Lanquin {0. S. & 

 F. B. G.); Salvador, Acajutla (/. M. Bow, in JJ. S. Nat. Mus.), Volcan de San 

 Miguel, La Libertad ( W. B. Richardson ^) ; Nicaragua, Chinandega and El Volcan 

 Chinandega ( W. B. B. ^), Omotepe {Nutting, in U. S. Nat. Mus.), San Juan del Sur 

 {0. S. ; Nutting, in U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; Costa Eica {A. B. Endres), Cartago {Cooper, 

 in U. S. Nat. Mus.), Tucurriqui {Arce), San Jose {Carmiol ^^, Zeledon ^^), Liberia 

 {Zeledon^% La Palma {Nutting^^). 



In his original description Lesson gave Brazil as the habitat of this species ^, but 

 afterwards mentioned Jalapa in Mexico as its domicile, on the authoi-ity of Delattre ^. 

 Examples from Eastern Mexico have, as a rule, more deeply forked tails than those 

 from Guatemala and places still further south, but we are unable to distinguish any 

 definite races of this bird. Guatemalan examples have rather less grey on the tips of 

 the central rectrices, but this is an eminently variable character, though always present 

 in fully adult birds. Some specimens have these feathers tipped with green, which is 

 probably a character of immaturity or perhaps only observable in perfectly freshly- 

 moulted feathers. One Dueiias specimen before us has the left central rectrix tipped 

 with green, whilst the right one is plain. 



Guatemalan specimens were described by Gould as C. osberti i*, and Costa Eican 

 ones by Cabanis as C. salvini^'^. These last have the tail still less deeply forked, but 

 in view of the apparently continuous range of the species we doubt the possibility of 

 recognizing any really definite races. We note, however, that the specimens from the 

 islands of Euatan and Bonacca have the outer rectrices unusually wide. 



C. caniveti was a very familiar species with us during our various visits to the 

 Hacienda at Duenas, and specimens could generally be seen in the garden adjoining 

 the house searching the plants in bloom for their insect food. At San Juan del Sur in 

 Nicaragua, Salvin noticed it in May in some numbers feeding from the flowers of the 

 tamarind-trees which line the shore of the bay. 



