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TrochUus melanotits, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 441". 



Trochibis cuculiger, Liclit. Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog. p. 1 (c/. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 55)". 



Ornismyia cirsennu, Less. His. Nat. Ois.-Mouclies, pp. xxvii, xlvi"; Suppl. p. 152, t. 27 ''. 



Heliopcedica melanotis, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. t. 64 (May 1858) "; Sanchez, An. Mus. Nac. Mex. 



i. p. 96"; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 130"; Salv. Ibis, 1860, pp. 195'', 263^ 271"; 



Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 176 '" ; A. Duges, La Nat. i. p. 141 '' ; Villada, La Nat. ii. p. 365 =' ; 



de Dca, La Nat. iii. p. 28'^; Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, (2) xxii. p. 14^^; Herrera, 



La Nat. (2) i. p. 322 -'. 



Supra nitenti-gramineo-viridis, ad nucham et ad pileiim postieum nigricantior, ad urop}-gium magis auresceus ; 

 facie ot mento micanti-cyaneis, stria postoculari elongata alba ; pectore micanti-viridi, abdomine et 

 tectricibus subcaudalibus nitenti-viridibus his griseo-albido limbatis, caudfe rectricibus mediis nitenti- 

 aureo-viridibus, lateralibus chalj'beis viridi terininatis : rostro carneo, apice nigro. Long, tota 3-5, 

 aire 2-0, caudse 1*2, rostri a rictu 0-65. 



$ siipra nitenti-aureo-viridis, eapite summo et nucha obscure fuseis rufo raarginatis, stria postoculari alba, 

 infra earn et infra oculum plaga nigra : subtus fusco-alba, gutturis plumis macula discali micanti-viridi, 

 hypochondriis quoque maculatis ; tectricibus subcaudalibus albidis, macula discali fusca ; rectricibus 

 lateralibus griseo-albo termiuatis : rostro fere nigro. (Descr. maris et feminse ex Sierra Nevada de 

 Colima. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. Mexico, Tutuaca in Sonora (W. Lloyd ^), Mazatlan [Grayson, in U. S. Nat. Mus.), 

 Ciudad in Durango (A. Forrer^), Sierra de Victoria Tamaulipas, Sierra de San 

 Luis Potosi, Sierra de Valparaiso, Sierra de Nayarit, Sierra de Bolanos, Tepic, 

 Volcan de Colima, Sierra Nevada de Colima ( W. B. Bichardson ^), Guanajuato 

 (Bttges^^, Sanchez'^^), Real del Monte, Temiscaltepec [BuIlocJc '^^), Amecameca, 

 Pinal in Puebla [F. B. G. \ Rio Frio Ixtaccihuatl, Tenango del Valle ( W. B. B.% 

 Valley of Mexico (Sanchez ^^, Villada —, de Oca ^^, Herrera ^^, White -O), Ixtapalapa, 

 Hacienda Eslava, Chimalpa, Tetelco, San Antonio Coapa, and Las Cruces in the 

 Valley of Mexico, Las Vigas, Montaiias de Orizaba (F. Ferrari-Perez ^), Tlascala 

 (F. D. G.% Cofre de Perote (M. Trvjillo% Jalapa [de Oca^^, Sanchez ^^), Mirador 

 {Sartorius, in TJ. S. Nat. Mus.), Cordova [Salle), Amula, Omilteme in Guerrero 

 [Mrs. H. H. Smith % Villa Alta, Totontepec, Tonaguia in Oaxaca [M. Trujillo % 

 Oaxaca [Fenochio^) ; Guatemala [Skinner ^^), Quezaltenango, Totonicapam [0. S. 

 & F. B. G.), Santa Maria, Chuipache [W. B. Bichardson'^), Volcan de Fuego i^, 

 V. de Agua, Clylasco, Santa Rosa above Salama, San Geronimo ^^, Santa Barbara, 

 Coban i' i^ [Q. S. & F. B. G.^) ; Nicaragua, Matagalpa [W. B. Bichardson). 



This is one of the commonest and most characteristic of the Humming-Birds of the 

 highlands of Mexico and Guatemala, its range extending from the States of Sonora and 

 Tamaulipas to the uplands of Nicaragua, birds from these widely- separated districts, 

 presenting no appreciable difference. Its range in altitude is considerable. It does 

 not occur much below 4000 feet above sea-level, and thence reaches as high as 7000 or 

 8000 feet. On the slopes of the Volcan de Fuego we used to find it not uncommonly in 

 open glades in the oak-forests, where it took its food from any plants that happened to 

 be in flower. Of the breeding-habits of this species we have no account, but a three- 



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