BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 353 
Floricola leocardie Satvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 232 (Sierra de Ala- 
mos, Sonora; Presfdio de Mazatlan; Bolafios, Jalisco; Valley of Mexico; Dos 
Arroyos, Rio Papagaio, Alta de Camarén, and Venta de Pelegrino, Guerrero; 
Chimalapa, Oaxaca). 
Heliomaster pinicola Goutp, Mon. Troch., iv, pt. v, May, 1853, pl. 261.—Ds Oca, 
La Naturaleza, iii, 1875, 299; Troq. de Mex., 1875, 53, pl. (11), fig. 42. 
[Heliomaster] pinicola SancuEz, Anal. Mus. Nac. Mex., i, 1877, 96 (pine region 
n. Mexico). 
[Selasphorus. +. Heliomaster] pinicola Ruicnensacu, Aufz. der Colib., 1854, 13. 
[Selasphorus] pinicola Re1cHeNBACcH, Troch. Enum., 1855, 11. 
Heliomaster constantii (not Ornismya constantii Delattre) ScrateR, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. Lond., 1856, 287 (Mexico). 
Heliomaster constanti LAwRENcE, Bull. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 32 (Gineta 
Mts., Chiapas). 
Floricola constantti Boucarp, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 304, part (Mexico). 
Genus PAMPA Reichenbach. 
Pampa Reicuensacn, Aufz. der Colib., 1854, 11. (Type, P. campyloptera 
Reichenbach=Ornismya panvpa Lesson.) 
Sphenoproctus® CaBANis and Heinz, Mus. Hein., iii, Feb., 1860, 11. (Type, 
Ornismya pampa Lesson.) 
Rather large Trochilide (length about 115-125 mm.) with thickened 
shafts to outer primaries, straight, stout bill much longer than head, 
long graduated or cuneate tail, and under parts plain light gray. 
Bill about one and a half times as long as head, straight or very 
nearly so, stout, broad and depressed basally; tomia smooth; man- 
dible with a median lateral groove, the maxilla with a less distinct 
lateral groove. Nostril narrow, slit-like, overhung by a very broad, 
convex, tumid, unfeathered operculum. Tarsus densely feathered, 
slender, about as long as middle toe, the latter about as long as inner 
and slightly longer than outer toe; hallux decidedly shorter than 
outer toe; toes all slender and weak, and claws relatively small, 
especially that of the hallux. Wing much more than twice as long 
as bill, the outermost primary longest, the three outermost with 
shafts thickened basally, especially the outer one, which in adult 
males has the shaft greatly swollen in middle portion. Tail three- 
fourths (more or less) as long as wing, graduated for more than one- 
fourth its length, the rectrices broad but decreasing in width ter- 
minally, especially the middle pair, which in adult males are abruptly 
longer than the rest. 
Coloration.—Forehead and crown metallic blue or violet, the rest 
of upper parts metallic green or bronze-green; lateral rectrices dusky, 
tipped with dull grayish in females; under parts wholly pale gray. 
Range.—Southern Mexico to Guatemala. (Two species.) 
@ “Von odiy (Keil) und zpwxtéc (Steiss).’’ (Cabanis and Heine.) 
81255°—Bull. 50—11——23 
