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Supra saturate nitenti-grammeo-viridis, cervice postica ad basin alba, capite toto et cervice usque ad pectus 

 saturate nitenti-cyaneis, eerviee postica viridi tincta, abdomine albo, hypochondriis viridibus; caudae 

 rectridbus mediis caeruleo-viridibus, lateraKbus albis, apicibus omnibus et marginibus extemis ang^nste 

 (rectrice extima excepta) purpureo-nigris : rostro nigro. Long, tota circa 4-0, alae 2-6, caudae 1*4, rostri 

 a rictu 0-9. 



$ supra omnino viridis, plaga cervicali alba nulla : subtus albida, plumis plaga magna discali saturate viridi 

 notatis, abdomine medio fere albo, tectricibus subcaudalibus nigricantibus albo marginatis ; caudae reetri- 

 cibus lateralibus ad basin viridescentibus, fascia subterminali chalybea, apicibus albis. (Descr. maris et 

 feminae ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hob. Mexico, Orizaba {Sumichrasf ^^) ; British Honduras, Belize (Let/land *), Western 

 district {F. Blancaneaux'^^) ; Guatemala {Skinner ^), Choctum ^^, near Peten {0.S.& 

 F. JD. G.); Honduras, San Pedro {G. M. Whitely'') ; Nicaragua, Chontales {Belt ^), 

 Rio San Juan {Bovirosa, in U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; Costa Rica (Endres ^^ ^^), Bebedero 

 de Nicoya {Arce) ; Panama, Vol can de Chiriqui ^^, Cordillera de Tole ^, Santiago 

 de Veraguas ^ {JrcS), Lion Hill {M'Leannan ^ ^^), Paraiso {Hughes ^^). — South 

 America from Colombia to Guiana, Trinidad, Tobago, the Amazons Valley, and 

 Ecuador. 



Florisuga mellivora is a very common species of the lowlands of the northern portion 

 of South America, from the Valley of the Amazons to the Caribbean Sea, occurring 

 also in the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Within our limits it is equally abundant 

 in the State of Panama, and thence northwards through Costa Rica to Eastern Nicar- 

 agua, and keeping to the eastern side of the Cordillera to Guatemala and the State of 

 Vera Cruz. In Mexico, however, it must be a rare bird, as we have no skins of it 

 from that country, and its presence there rests upon Sumichrast's statement that it 

 occurs near Orizaba ^^. M. Boucard's description of P. sailed was taken from a speci- 

 men shot by himself in Southern Mexico ^'^. This last-mentioned bird appears to be a 

 stained specimen, either through damp or exposure, of the ordinary form. At one time 

 F. mellivora was stated to be found in the Tres Marias Islands on the authority of 

 Xantus ^3 1^ ; but Count Berlepsch ^^ has shovm that this and other Humming-Biids 

 stated to have come from the same islands were included in the list of their birds by 

 some oversight. Their presence there was not confirmed by Grayson or by Mr. Forrer. 



So far as our own observations go, F. mellivora is a forest-loving bird, and in Guate- 

 mala its vertical range probably does not exceed 2000 feet. 



b'. Minores : canda rotundata ; rostrum debile ; tegulw nasales celatm ; caput 



haud cristatum. 



g". Bostrum parvum, breve; caput dorsum concolor. 

 ABEILLIA. 

 Abeillia, Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i. p. 79; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 358. 



This genus and the next belong to a section of Humming-Birds which are of small 



