296 TEOCHlLIDJi:. 



Patzcuaro {l}iiges% Volcan de Colima {W. B. R.^), Chilpancingo, Xautipa, 

 Amula, Omilteme in Guerrero {Mrs. E. H. Smith% Valley of Mexico {White ^, 

 Villada ^, de Oca \ Sanchez \ Herrera % Tetelco in the Valley of Mexico {F. 

 Ferrari-Perez^), Cofre de Perote {M. Trujillo% Jalapa {de Oca^^'^^% Sanchez'^, 

 F. Ferrari-Perez ^^, Trujillo ^), Coatepec {F. Ferrari-Perez ^, Trujillo ^), Orizaba 

 {Botteri\ de Oca^, Sanchez"^), Cordova {SalU^, de Oca^, Sanchez'^), Omealca 

 {F. Ferrari-Perez), Villa Alta, Totontepec {M. Trvjillo^), Oaxaca {Fenochio^), 

 Chimalapa, Tehuantepec ( W. B. Bichardson ^). 



Deppe's specimens, briefly described by Lichtenstein, were the first of this species 

 that reached Europe ^. The same bird was soon afterwards renamed Ornismya arsinoe 

 by Lesson ^^, and figured in the Supplement to his Histoire Naturelle Oiseaux- 

 Mouches. Bourcier's name Trochilus marioe ^^ also, we feel sure, belongs here, though 

 this name has been applied to the next species, 



Amazilia heryllina is one of the commonest of the Mexican Humming-Birds, and is 

 distributed over a large area of that country, from the northern confines of the State 

 of Sinaloa in the north to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and over the plateau of Mexico 

 to the State of Vera Cruz in the east. De Oca says that this bird is found in the 

 Cantons of Jalapa, Cordova, and Orizaba, and other parts of the State of Vera Cruz ^. 

 It frequents the gardens of the houses of Jalapa during the whole year, but is more 

 common in the months of May, June, and July, which are the nesting-season. 



There is considerable variation in the colour of the tail in this species, and in some 

 specimens the upper tail-coverts and the tail are deep violet-purple, but we are unable 

 to fix these variations to any definite localities. As a rule the darker specimens are 

 from the more northern parts of Western Mexico, but this is not always the case. 



The range in altitude of this bird extends from the sea-level at San Bias to the 

 plateau of Mexico. 



4. Amazilia devillii. 



Trochilus devillii, Bourc. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 272 \ 



Amazilia devillii, Gould, Mon. Troch. v. t. 313 (May 1860) ' ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 369 ' ; 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 211 * ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 451 \ 

 Pyrrhophtena devillii, Salv. Ibis, 1866, p. 204"; Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 33^; 



Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 250 '. 

 Amazilia arsinoe, Salv. Ibis, I860, p; 195 °. 

 Amazilia dumerilii, Salv. Ibis, 1860, pp. 263'°, 270". 

 Amazilia marice, Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 222 (nee Bourc.) ". 



A. berryllince similis, sed alis ad basin minus casfcaneis, colore viridi subtus usque ad crissum extenso. 

 S minus nitida. (Descr. maris et feminse ex Duenas, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hah. Mexico, Yucatan {Gaumer^), 1 Gineta Mountains in Chiapas {Sumichrast ^ s) ; 

 Guatemala \ Choctum, YzabaP, Duenas", Volcan de Fuego, La Trinidad {0. S. 

 & F. B. 6.); Salvador, Volcan de San Miguel, La Libertad {W. B. Richardson). 



