304 TEOCHILTD^. 



c. Culmen ad basin nudum ; tegulcB nasales fere omnino expositce. 



c'. Bosfrum elongatum, rectum ; cauda brevis, rotundata, rectricibus later alibus albo 



terminatis. 



FLOEICOLA. 



Floricola, Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 82. 

 Heliomaster, auctt. nee Bonaparte. 



The species here included in Floricola were usually placed under Heliomaster till 

 Mr. Elliot showed that that name properly belongs to H. furcifer, and proposed a new 

 generic name for them. In general appearance Floricola resembles Heliomaster and 

 Lepidolarynx, and these three genera have always, we believe, been placed in juxta- 

 position. Floricola, however, has several points of difference from the other two forms 

 which keeps it somewhat widely apart from them. Instead of the culmen being 

 feathered at the base to such an extent that the nasal covers ai-e completely hidden, 

 the latter are fully exposed, and this character brings Floricola into the neighbourhood 

 of a group of genera all of which have the culmen bare nearly to the base. It stands 

 apart from all these genera by virtue of its long bill and short tail. 



Four species are included in the genus, belonging to two sections, which may readily 

 be distinguished by the colour of the crown. Of these the widely ranging F. longi- 

 rostris in a slightly modified form extends as far as Central Vera Cruz. The other 

 two species belonging to the plain-headed section are peculiar, the one to Mexico, the 

 other to Central America. 



a. Pileus coeruleo-viridis micans. 



1. Floricola longirostris. 



Oiseau-Mouche a long Bee, Aud. Ois. Dor. i. p. 128, t. 59 \ 



Trochilus longirostris, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. N. vii. p. 366 ^ 



Heliomaster longirostris, Gould, Men. Troch. iv. t. 259 (May 1853) ' ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 140 * ; 



Salv. Ibis, 1860, pp. 195=, 263', 276'; 1869, p. 316"; P. Z. S. 1867, p. 155 ^ 1870, 



p. 210"; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 126". 

 Floricola longirostris, Elliot, Syn. Troeh. p. 83 " ; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 229 ". 

 Heliomaster sclateri, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 54'*; Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 139"; Lawr. 



Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 4 '* ; ix. p. 126 ". 

 Heliomaster pallidiceps, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 139"; Scl. Cat. Am. Birds, p. 310''; Salv. Ibis 



1866, p. 205=°; 1869, p. 316"; 1872, p. 320"; Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 367"; Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 229 " ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 126 ^'' ; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, 



p. 32"; deOca, La Nat. iii. p. 27"; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 250'^ Sanchez, An! 



Mus. Nac. Mex. i. p. 96 ^\ 

 Heliomaster stewartce, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 291 ''" ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 365 ". 

 Supra nitenti-aureo-viridis, nucha et tectricibus supracaudalibus cupreo tinctis, dorso postico plaga irregular! 



