a:mazilia. 301 



Pyrrhophma dubusi. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 36 =°; Cab. J. f. Oni. 1862, p. 163='. 



Trochilits Jnscicaudatus, Eraser, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 17 =' ? 



Amazilia fitscicaudata, Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 147^; x. p. 591='; EUiot, Syn. Troch. 



p. 2-20 '°; Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 398 '' ; vi. p. 406 " ; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. 



Costa Rica, 1887, p. 122 ". 



Supra nitenti-cupreo-viridis, pileo obscuriore, tectricibus supracaudaHbus castaneis : subtus yiridis micaus, 

 abdomine antico et hypochondriis nit^nti-viridibus, abdomine imo fusco, loris et tectricibus subcaudaUbus 

 castaneis ; cauda castanea, cupreo limbata et tenninata : rostro cameo, apice nigro. LoDg. tota 4-0, ate 2 3, 

 caudee 1-35, rostri a rictu 0-93. 



$ maris similis, maxilla obscuriore. (Descr. maris et feminae ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. Texas 18 ^^—Mmico, Tampico (W. B. Bichardson^^), Cordova {Salle; Sumi- 

 chrast, in U. S. Nat. Mm.), Choapam {Boucard^% Playa Vicente {Boucard-\ 

 Trujillo), Sochiapa (M. Trujillo^^), Teapa {Mrs. H. H. Smith^^), Guichicovi 

 {Sumickrast^^}; British Honduras, Orange Walk {G. F. Gaumer^^), Corosal 

 {Boe^^), Belize, Cayo {Blancaneaiiw ^^) ; Guatemala, Santa Ana in Peten {0. S'.), 

 Choctum, Coban^, Lanquin, Yzabal^ {0. S. & F. I). <?."); Hoxduras {Bonr- 

 cier^% Segovia River {Townsend^^) ; Nicaragua, Matagalpa and La Libertad 

 (IF". B. Bichardson), Chontales {BeW^), Los Sabalos {Kutting^-), Greytown 

 {Holland ^^), San Juan Bautista (^oy/rosa, in U. S. Nat. Mus.); Costa Eica, 

 Orosi {Kramer), Irazu {Boffers^\ Boucard^% Tucurriqui {Arce^'^), El Naranjo ^3, 

 San Jose ^3, Talamanca {Zeledon, in U. S. Nat. Mus.), La Palma {Nutting ^i) ; 

 Panama, David {Warszewiez, Bridges^), Chiriqui, Chitra, Boquete de Chitra, 

 Cordillera del Chucu 9, Calovevora ^ (^rce). Lion Hill {M'-Leannan ^ ^^), 'Para.iso 

 {Hughes ^i), Veragua -5. — Colombia ^ ^^ . Ecuador ^^. 



Considering that Chachapoyas in Peru, where this bird is not known to occur, was 

 stated by Fraser to be the origin of his type of T. fuscicaudatus -'', and seeing that 

 there are points in the description of that bird that do not apply to the species usually 

 known as A. riefferi, we continue to employ the latter name for the present species, 

 though a diflFerent course is taken by Mr. Elliot and other American writers. 



Bourcier's type of his TrochUus riefferi Cdime from Fusagasuga in Colombia^, and 

 the bird is very well known from that country, skins of it being frequently sent in 

 numbers in the trade collections of Bogota. It is also abundant in Ecuador, where 

 most collectors have met with it, and where Fraser noticed some birds of this species 

 feeding from the bark of a large tree in the forest at Babahoyo, and others searching 

 the eaves of houses in Esmeraldas, At Panama and thence northwards on the eastern 

 side of Central America and Mexico to the mouth of the Rio Grande this species seems 

 to enjoy an uninterrupted range from the sea-level to a height of 4300 feet at Cohan 

 in Vera Paz. At the latter place several specimens were procured in the months of 

 November and January, but the species was not common. At Lanquin, in March, 

 Salvin obtained two half-grown birds, showing that the nesting-season there must be 

 quite eai-ly in the year. 



