CALOTHOEAX. 351 



( White 5, de Oca ^% Sumichrast «, Herrera ^% San Antonio Coapa, Hacienda Eslava, 

 Tetelco and Ixtapalapa in the Valley of Mexico {F. Ferrari-Perez ''), Tupataro in 

 Guanajuato (Duges, in U. S. Nat. Mm.), Puebla, San Andres Chalchicomula 

 (Boucard"), Orizaba {Sumichrast s), Cordova {Salle*}. 



The Mexican highlands seem to be the chief resort of this species, its range extending 

 from the Sierras of the north-west to the Valley of Mexico and the country imme- 

 diately adjoining. It is also recorded in the first list of M. Salle's collections made 

 when he resided chiefly at Cordova. The birds then obtained were probably from the 

 neighbouring mountains. 



De Oca says ^^ that C. lucifer, is peculiar to the valley of Mexico, where it lives from 

 the commencement of spring to the end of autumn. He adds that it is never seen 

 near Jalapa. We have seen specimens from the Valley of Mexico shot in January, so 

 that this bird is probably in that neighbourhood throughout the year, shifting its 

 ground according to the florescence of the vegetation. 



M. Boucard i^, who observed this species at Puebla and elsewhere, says that it feeds 

 chiefly from the flowers of a Convolvulus which grows in the upland cold country, 

 like so many of its family it is a very quarrelsome bird. 



2. Calothorax pulcher. 



Calothorax jntlchra, Gould, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1859, iv. p. 97'; Mon. Troch. iii. t. 144 (May 

 1860) '; Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 386 '; de Oca, La Nat. iii. p. 105 ^ Boucard, Ann. Soc. 

 Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 22 ^j Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 391 ^ 



C. pulckri similis quoad colores corporis gulae plumis lateralibus minus elongatis, rostro breviore et minus 

 robusto, caudsB quoque recfcrice utrinque extima normali ad apicem vix angustiore et nullo modo acuta, 

 distinguenda. 



5 minor et rostro breviore. 



Hab. Mexico, Venta de Zopilote in Guerrero {Mrs. H. H. Smith ®), Putla {Bebotich ^), 

 Oaxaca {Boucard ^^^, Fenochio ^), Tehuantepec {W. B. Richardson % 



The discovery of this species is due to M. Boucard, who first found it at Oaxaca, as 

 he tells us, on 28th June, 1857 ^. He forwarded his specimens to M. SaUe, who 

 sent them on to Gould, who described ^ and figured ^ them. According to M. Boucard 

 this bird feeds from the flowers of a cactus which is used to form the hedges surrounding 

 the properties of the Indians of Oaxaca. 



Female specimens sent us by MJrs. Herbert Smith from Guerrero we believe belong 

 to this species, and according to M. Boucard it is found at Putla, whence examples 

 were forwarded to him by. M. Rebouch ^. The southern limit of its range extends to 

 Tehuantepec, whence Mr. Richardson sent us two males in abraded plumage, which 

 were shot in February *. 



