DELATTRIA. 335 



With the exception of the somewhat abnormal Costa Rican B. hemileuca, all the 

 species of Belattria belong to the northern section of our region. Two occur in 

 Mexico, one of which is also found in Guatemala, the latter country possesses a 

 peculiar species, and the fourth occurs in the highlands of Nicaragua and probably of 

 Honduras. 



1. Delattria henrici. 



Omismya henrica, Less. & Delattre, Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 17'. 



Delattria henrici, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. t. 62 (Oct. 1854)='; Sol. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 297'; 1859, 



pp. 367 *, 386 ' ; Sol. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 129 ' ; Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 196 ' ; 1862, p. 96 ^ Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 308' ; ViUada, La Nat. ii. p. 351 " ; Herrera, La Nat. (2) i. p. 322". 

 Cceligena henrici, Cdib. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 15"; Boueard, Ann. Soe. Linn. Lyon, xx. 



p. 275 "; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 157". 



Sapra saturate cnpreo-viridis, uropygio brmmescente, tectrieibus snpracaudalibTis longioribus sicut rectricibus 

 purpureo-nigris ; capite smnino fosco nigricoDte, plamis singulis viridi limbatis ; stria postoculari. elongata 

 alba, stria rictali fulva : subtns gula rosaceo-rubra, corpore reliquo griseo-brunneo, hypoehondriiB viridi 

 lavatis, tectridbus subcaudalibas abdomine concoloribus albido maigLaalds, rectricibus lateralibus ad 

 apicem paJlidis : rostro mgro. Long, tota circa 4'6, alae 2-6j caudae 1-6, rostri a rictu I'O. 



5 supra mari shnilis, subtus paUidior, pectore rufescente, gula rosacea nulla, rectricibus lateralibus griseo- 

 albido terminatis. (Descr. maris et feminse ex Calderas, Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



ffab. Mexico, Valley of Mexico {Le Strange ^, Herrera ^^), Hacienda Eslava {F. Ferrari- 

 Perez ^), Jalapa {de Oca *, F. Ferrari-Perez ^% Coatepec {BeUttre i, M. Trujillo ^), 

 Cordova {F. Ferrari-Perez '^\ Boueard ^^), Mountains of Orizaba {F. Ferrari-Perez ^), 

 Playa Vicente {Boueard ^% Sierra Nevada de Colima ( W. B. Richardson ^), Toton- 

 tepec {Boueard ^ ^) ; Guatemala {Skinner ^), El Rincon in San Marcos, Cuipache, 

 San Martin, and Quezaltenango ( W. B. R. % Totonicapam ^, Volcan de Fuego and 

 Calderas on V. de Fuego ^" {0. S. & F. B. G.). 



Belattria hen/rid was one of Delattre's discoveries during his journey to Mexico, and 

 was described by himself and Lesson in 1839, and named after Henri Delattre, the 

 brother of the traveller i. The species appears to be fairly common in the forests of the 

 slopes of the mountains of Vera Cruz, thence it passes inland to the Valley of Mexico, 

 where, however, it is a comparatively rare bird, and across the country to the Sierra 

 Nevada de Colima, where Mr. Eichardson secured a male specimen in December 1889. 

 This bird is not old, and is paler grey beneath than birds from Eastern Mexico ; but a 

 specimen from Cuipache, in Quezaltenango, is similar, so that there can be little doubt 

 that the Colima bird is really the same as that of the Valley of Mexico. Totontepec 

 is the most southern place in Mexico where B. henrici is found ^, but it occurs in many 

 parts of the main mountain-range of Guatemala in the upland forests as high as 

 10,000 feet above sea-level. Guatemalan specimens, of which we have a large series, 

 are exactly like those of Eastern Mexico. 



On the ridge above Calderas (8000 feet) this bird was abxindant in September, the 

 flowers of an arborescent Fuchsia being the chief attraction. 



