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H[ylocharis] dowbledayi Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec., 1848, 114.—CaBanis and 
Herne, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 144, part (‘‘Rio Negro”). 
[Thaumatias] doubledayi Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 78. 
[Hylocharis. 8. Cyanophaia] doubledayi Retcnensacn, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 10. 
[Sapphironia] doubledayi Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 256. 
Circe doubledayi GoutD, Mon. Troch., pt. xx, Sept. 1, 1860 (vol. v), pl. 339 (Chi- 
nantla, Guerrero); Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 169.—D’Oca, La Natura- 
leza, iii, 1875, 302, pl.; Troq. de Mex., 1875, pl. (12), fig. 45. —Mu.sant and 
VERREAUX, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., ii, livr. 1, 1875, 44 (Chinantla).—Law- 
RENCE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 33 (Chihuitén, Oaxaca).—Sumi- 
curast, La Naturaleza, v, 1881, 250 (Chihuitén and Juchitén, Oaxaca). 
[Circe] doubledeayi. Mutsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 208. 
[Circe] doubledayi ScuateR and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 93. 
Tache doubledayt Extrotr, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 235.—Sa.vin, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 62 (Chinantla, Guerrero).—Satvin and Gop- 
MAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 259 (Venta del Pelegrino, Rincon, 
Dos Arroyos, and Acapulco, Guerrero; Chihuitin, Juchitén, Salina Cruz, 
and Tehudntepec, Oaxaca).—Boucarp, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1894, 111 (Chi- 
huit4n).—Hartert, Novit. Zool., iv, 1897, 530 (crit.). 
I[ache] doubledayi Ripaway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 320; Rep. U. S. Nat 
Mus. for 1890 (1891), 373 (diagnosis, etc.). 
P{haeoptila] doubledayi Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 64 (monogr.). 
[Phzoptila] doubledayi SHarpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 110. 
[Phaeoptila] doubledayi Stuon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 15. 
Tache nitida Satvin and Gopman, Ibis, April, 1889, 240 (Acapulco and Rio Papa- 
gaio, Guerrero; coll Salvin and Godman).—Satvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Xvi, 1892, 62 (Venta del Pelegrino, Rincén, Dos Arroyos, and Acapulco, 
Guerrero; Salina Cruz and Tehudntepec, Oaxaca).—Bovucarp, Gen. Hum. 
Birds, 1894, 111. 
Jache nitida Hartert (E. and C.), Novit. Zool., i, 1894, 61 (Dos Arroyos, near 
Acapulco, Guerrero). 
[Phaeoptila] nitida Simon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 15. 
I[ache] nitida Ripeway, Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus. for 1890 (1891), 373 (diagnosis, etc.) 
Genus BASILINNA Boie. 
Basilinna Borg, Isis, 1831, 546. (Type, Trochilus leucotis Vieillot.) 
Basilina (emendation?) RetcHensacu, Av. Syst. Nat., 1849, pl. xxxix. 
Heliopxdica * Gouin, Mon. Troch., pt. xv, May, 1858. (Type, Trochilus melanotis 
Swainson = 7". leucotis Vieillot.) 
Heliopedica (emendation) SctatER and Savin, Ibis, April, 1859, 130. 
Similar to Hylocharis, but wing relatively longer (three times as 
long as exposed culmen) and style of coloration very different, the 
side of head with a broad white postocular streak and a black (male) 
or dusky (female) auricular stripe. 
Bill longer than head, broad and depressed basally, faintly decurved; 
culmen broadly rounded but. contracted basally into a narrow meso- 
rhinal ridge; tomia smooth; mandible with a rather distinct median 
lateral groove. Nasal operculum broad, very tumid, wholly nude, 
the frontal feathering forming a transverse line across base of fore- 
head. Tarsus feathered; anterior toes about equal in length, the 
a” Hheoc, sol, et nacdexoc, juvenilis. (Gould.) 
