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G. "), Belize {Blancaneaux ^% Cays oflF the coast {0. S. ^) ; Guatemala, San 

 Ger6nimo23, Escuintla", Santana Mixtan {0. S. 8r F. D. G.), Retalhuleu {0. S. 

 & F. D. G., W. B. Richardson); Salvador ^^ Acajutla {Capt. J. M. Dow, in 

 U.S. Nat. Mm.), La Libertad {W. B. R. ") ; Honduras, Tigre 1. 1^, Comayagua 

 {G. C. Taylor ^^); Nicaragua, Chinandega, El Volcan Chinandega, Momotombo 

 ( W. B. R. "), Sucuya {Nutting is) ; Costa Eica i" ", San Mateo, Punta Arenas 

 {Boucard ^^). 



This species was first described by K. P. Lesson from skins obtained by his brother, 

 A. Lesson, at Acapulco in the Mexican State of Guerrero ^. We have many examples 

 from this district sent us by Mrs. Herbert H. Smith, and the species has been traced 

 northwards along the coast of Mexico through the State of Colima to San Bias and 

 Mazatlan. Southwards it occurs uninterruptedly as far as Costa Kica, and we have 

 many specimens before us from Tehuantepec, the Pacific coast-region of Guatemala, 

 Salvador, and Nicaragua. On the east side of the continent Sumichrast records it from 

 Potrero in the State of Vera Cruz, but we have never seen specimens from that State. 

 It occurs in Northern Yucatan and some of the islands oif the coast, and in the northern 

 part of British Honduras. In the interior of Guatemala the only place we ever met 

 with it Avas San Geronimo, where it was fairly common at an altitude of about 3000 

 feet above sea-level. In Honduras, G. C. Taylor says it was a common species at 

 intervals as he travelled across the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans, 

 especially near Comayagua at an altitude of 1900 feet, where many birds were feeding 

 from the flowers of a cactus growing in open ground. In Guatemala we noticed that 

 the blossoms of the orange-trees were usually frequented by this bird. 



As a species A. cinnamomea is very distinct from all other Amazilioe except A. graysoni, 

 which is a considerably larger bird. 



Its real affinity is probably with A. yucatanends and its allies, as it agrees with them 

 in having a flesh-coloured maxilla and dark wings without any chestnut at the base. 

 It also has points in common with A. pristina and the other Andean species of that 

 section of the genus. 



2. Amazilia graysoni. 



Amazilia {Pyrrhophana) graysoni, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 404 \ 



Pyrrhophmna graysoni, Grayson, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xiv. p. 183 ' ; Lawr. Mem. Best. Soc. N. H. 



ii. p. 292 ». 

 Amazilia graysoni, Gould, Ibis, 1867, p. 247 * j Sharpe, in Gould's Mon. Troch., Suppl. (March 



1887) '; Salv. Gat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 209°. 



A. dnnamomece similis et omnino ejusdem colons, sed multo major. Long, tota 4-7, als 2*6 caudse 1-7 rostri 

 a rictu 1-1. (Descr. maris ex Tres Marias Is., Mexico Occ. Mus. nostr.) 



Eab. Mexico, Tres Marias Islands {Grayson ^^^, Forrer). 



The late Col. A. J. Grayson discovered this species during his visits to the Tres 



