AMAZILIA. 293 



In many respects Amazilia resembles Cyanomyia and Agyrtria, the main points of 

 structure being similar, the culmen being feathered to the base, but so as to leave the 

 nasal covers distinctly exposed on their anterior portion. In Amazilia the throat is 

 never wholly white, and none of its members have any glittering blue colours, or any 

 glittering colours on the top of the head. 



We are more or less acquainted with twenty-nine species of Amazilia, but there are 

 some others which we have not met with ; the former are spread over the Andes as far 

 south as Peru, and over the northern portion of South America, none, so far as we 

 know, occurring in the valley of the Amazons nor in BrazU. In Central America and 

 Mexico we recognize thirteen species, two of which range as far north as the mouth of 

 the Rio Grande. On the western side of Mexico, Mazatlan is the most northern point 

 reached. Only one species also occurs in South America. Generally speaking, all 

 species of Amazilia are birds of comparatively low-lying lands, but they ascend the 

 mountains at certain seasons to an elevation of at least 4000 feet. 



a. Corpus subtus omnino cinnamomeum. 



1. Amazilia cimiamomea. 



Ornismya cinnamomea, Less. Rev. Zool. 1843^ p. 175 ^. 



PyrrhophtBna cinnamomea, Gouldj Intr. Trocli. p. 156"; Salv. Ibis, 1866, p. 204'; Lawr. Ann. 



Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 304 * ; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 392 ' ; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, 



p. 32 °; Sanehez, An. Mus. Nac. Mex. i. p. 96''; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 250 ^ 

 Amazilia cinnamomea, Salv. Ibis, 1864, p. 380°; 1870, p. 115"; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. 



p. 207 "; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 71 "; 1883, p. 451 " ; Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. JNIus. iv. 



p. 26"; Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 386 '\ 

 Ornismya rutila, Delattre, Eeho du ^Monde Sav. 1843, p. 1069 ". 

 Trochilus corallirostris, Bourc. & jMuIs. Ann. Sc. Pbys. et Nat. Lyon, ix. p. 328". 

 Amazilia corallirostris, Gould, Mon. Troch. v. t. 307 (May 1857) '' ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 358 " ; 



1859, p. 386="; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 130 ''; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 115 '-, Salv. Ibis, 



1860, p. 268 ". 



Supra nitenti-cupreo-viridis, pileo obscuriore, loris et corpore toto subtus cinnamomeis, hoc ad mentum palli- 

 diore ; cauda castanea, apice et margirdbus extemis obscure cupreis : rostro cameo (ave viva sanguineo), 

 apice nigro. Long, tota 4-2, alse 2-25, caudae 1-3, rostri a rictu 0-9. (Descr. maris ex Eetalhuleu, 

 Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



5 man similis, sed subtus pallidior. 



Eab. Mexico, Mazatlan ^ and Presidio de Mazatlan {Grayson, Forrer^^), San Bias {W. B. 

 Bichardson^^), Tecolapa, Culata (W. Lloyd^^), Plains of Colima {W. B. R.^^), 

 Acapulco {A. Lesson ^), Tierra Colorada, Hio Papagaio, Acaguizotla, La Yenta, 

 Dos Arroyos, Alto de Camaron, Venta de Pelegrino {Mrs. H. E. Smith "), State 

 oi Oas.diC?L {Boucard ^% Santa Engenia, Tapana {Sumichrast ^^), Chimalapa {W. 

 B.B.^% Potrero {Sumichrast % Merida in Yucatan {Schott\ F. B. G., G. F. 

 Gaumer^^), Holbox I. {G. F. G.^^); British Honduras, Orange Walk {G. F. 



