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size, with small feeble bills, the tomia of both maxilla and mandible being decidedly 

 rolled inwards towards the tip ; the nostrUs are concealed by feathers, which, however, 

 do not extend so far along the culmen as in some of the other genera. The tail is 

 rounded and the rectrices normal ; the head is uncrested. 



Abeillia differs from Klais in having a smaller, shorter bill, and in the crown being 

 green like the back. The sole species of the genus extends from Southern Mexico and 

 the highlands of Guatemala to those of Nicaragua. 



1. AbeiUia typica. 



Omismya abeillei, Delattre & Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 16 '. 



Abeillia typica, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 79^ Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. pp. 358, 666'; Salv. & 



Godm. Ibis, 1893, p. 327". 

 Myiabeillia typica, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 253 ^ Gould, Mon. Troch. iii. t. 211 (Oct. 1854) "; 



Sol. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 128' ; Salv. Ibis, 1860, pp. 195 ^ 262 % 263 " ; de Oca, La Nat. 



iii. p. 205". 

 Baucis abeillei. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 72'^ Boucard, Ann. See. Linn. Lyon, xxii. 



p. 23''. 



Supra nitenti-gramineo-viridis, plaga postoculari magna alba, tectricibus aurioularibus nigris; mento et gula 

 antica micanti-viridibus, infra nigro marginatis ; corpore reHquo subtns fusco, cervicis lateribus, hypo- 

 chondriis et tectricibus subcaudalibus medialiter viridibus ; caudse rectricibus mediis cupreo-vindibus, 

 lateralibus chalybeo-cyaneis ad basin viridescentibus, apicibus griseis : rostro nigrp. Long, tola circa 3-2, 

 alee 1-85, cauda; V15, rostri a rictu 0-6. 



2 mari similis, sed corpore toto subtus fusco-griseo, hypochondriis viridi lavatis. (Descr. maris et feminae ex 

 Coban, Guatemala. Mus. nosfcr.) 



Eab. Mexico, Jalapa {Delattre ^ de Oca ^^), Cordova {Boucard i^) ; Guatemala ^^, Coban 

 {Skinner \ 0. S. & F. I). 0. » % Volcan de Fuego {0. S. & F. D. G. » ^% Pie de la 

 Cuesta in San Marcos, Tollman in Solola {W. B.Bichardson^); Nicaragua, Mata- 

 galpa {W.B.B.^'t). 



This distinct species was discovered by Delattre at Jalapa in Mexico ^, where, however, 

 he says that it is very rare in the forests, seeking its food from the wild flowers of that 

 district. De Oca confirms this statement of its occurrence near Jalapa ^^, but in none 

 of the large Mexican collections we have recently examined have we found an example, 

 nor does its name occur in the original list of de Oca's collections (P. Z. S. 1859, p. 367). 

 In the British Museum are three skins of this species which were supposed to have 

 reached Gould from Ploresi, and we believe they once formed part of his collection. 

 From the mode of preparation of these skins we now think that they were made up by 

 Delattre, and therefore perhaps typical specimens. On the other hand, if they were 

 from Delattre, they may have been shot in Coban and not in Mexico at all. 



In Guatemala A. typica is a characteristic species of the upland forests, being abun- 

 dant at certain seasons in the ravines of the volcanoes amongst the second-growth 

 woods. Near Coban it was found in all the mountain hollows, feeding from the SalvicB 

 in flower in November. 



