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the wide terminal white spots to the outer rectrices. The range of the only species is 

 given below, and includes the highlands of Mexico from Arizona to Oaxaca. 



1. Coellgena clemenci£e. 



Omismya clemencuB, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Moiiches, pp. xlv, 216, t. 80 '. 



Delattria clemenciee, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. t. 60 (May 1855)'; Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 297'; 1859, 



p. 367 * ; de Oca, La Nat. iii. p. 100 '. 

 Cmligena clemencia, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 15 ° ; Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xx. 



p. 274 •; Duges, La Nat. i. p. 141'; Villada, La Nat. ii. p. 350'; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. 



p. 250"; Brewster, Ank, ii. p. 85 " ; Herrera, La Nat. (2) i. p. 322"; Salv. Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 304 ". 



Supra nitenti-cupreo-viridis, dorso viridescentiore, uropygio saturatiore eupreo in purpurascentem transennte, alls 

 et Cauda ejusdem coloris ; capite summo obscuro, stria postoculari elongata alba ; fcectricibus auricularibus 

 obscuris : subtus grisea, gutture micanti-caenileo, hypochondriis viridi lavatis, tectaricibus subcaudalibus 

 albo maigrnatis ; caudae reetricibus lateraUbus duabus utrinque late albo terminafcis : rostro nigro. Long, 

 tota drca 5-3, alae 3-1, caudae 2-0, rostri a rietu 1'5. 



2 man similis, sed corpore toto subtus griseo, gula baud cserulea. (Descr. maris et feminae ex Amecameca, 

 Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



Hob. North Ameeica, Arizona ^K — Mexico ^ ^, Ciudad in Durango (A. Forrer ^^), 

 Guanajuato (Duges^), Sierra de Valparaiso, Sierra de San Luis Potosi [W. B. 

 Richardson ^^), Las Vigas {F. Ferrari-Perez^^), Jalapa*, Coatepec [de Oca% 

 Cordova {Salle, de Oca ^), Mirador (Sariorius, in JJ. S. Nat. Mus.), Orizaba [Sumi- 

 chrast 1"), Valley of Mexico {de Oca ^, Herrera ^^), Tetelco, Ixtapalapa, Hacienda 

 Eslava in the Valley of Mexico {F. Ferrari-Perez), Ajusco {W. £. Richardson ^% 

 Amecameca {F. B. G. ^^), Kio Frio Ixtaccihuatl ( W. B. Richardson i^), Tehuacan 

 {Bmcard "), Omilteme in Guerrero {Mrs. H. H. Smith ^% Oaxaca {Boucard ^ '', 

 Fenochio ^^), La Parada {Boucard''). 



Lesson described and figured this species from a male specimen in the Eivoli 

 collection from Mexico. The same author's subsequent description and figure of the 

 female belong not to this species but to Eugenes fulgens. 



C. clemencicB is now known to occur over a considerable area in the mountains of 

 Southern Mexico, and as far north as the Sierra of San Luis Potosi and the Sierra Madre 

 of Durango, and even beyond the Mexican frontier in Arizona, where Mr. F. Stephens 

 obtained an adult male at Camp Lowell in May 1884 ". De Oca says ^ it is found in 

 the neighbourhood of Jalapa, Coatepec, and Cordova in the State of Vera Cruz, but 

 more rarely in the Valley of Mexico, where it stays from spring till the end of autumn. 

 At Oaxaca, according to M. Boucard ^ it arrives in September, but leaves again early in 

 November. He adds that it is a bird of the mountains, and, like Eugenes fulgens, 

 capable of resisting a considerable amount of cold. 



This species has no very near ally ; the colour of the throat is peculiar, and so also 

 are the white tips to the lateral rectrices. The elongated white postocular stripe it 

 has in common with the members of Belattria and Oreopyra. 



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