BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 517 
ABEILLIA ABEILLEI (Delattre and Lesson). 
ABEILLE’S HUMMING BIRD. 
Adult male.—Above metallic bronze-green or greenish bronze, 
including middle pair of rectrices; rest of tail black, faintly glossed 
with bluish or bronzy, the rectrices tipped with brownish gray (most 
broadly on outermost), and with basal half (more or less) of outer web 
rather dull greenish bronze or bronze-green; remiges purplish dusky or 
dull dusky slate faintly glossed with purplish; a small postocular spot 
of white; chin and upper throat brilliant metallic emerald green or yel- 
lowish green; lower throat velvety black in position a, dusky metallic 
bronze-green in position c, passing into duller black or dusky on 
chest, the remaining under parts deep brownish gray more or less 
glossed or overlaid with metallic bronze-green, except on abdomen; 
under tail-coverts metallic bronze-green centrally, broadly margined 
with deep brownish gray; bill dull black; iris dark brown; feet 
brownish (in dried skins); length (skins), 73-86 (80); wing, 44-50.5 
(47.8); tail, 27.5-33 (30.3); culmen, 10-11.5 (10.6).¢ 
Adult female.—Similar to the adult male, but lateral rectrices dis- 
tinctly tipped with pale brownish gray, and under parts pale gray, 
spotted or glossed with metallic green or bronze-green on sides; 
length (skins), 71-72 (71.3); wing, 41.5-46 (43.8); tail, 26.5-27 
(26.8); culmen, 11-12 (11.5).° 
Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Cérdova; 
Orizaba) and Chiapas (Tumbala); Guatemala (Cobén; Guatemala 
City; Volcén de Fuego; Pié de la Cuesta, San Marcos; ‘olim4n, 
Solol4); northern Nicaragua (Matagalpa). 
Ornismya abeillei DretaTrre and Lesson, Rev. Zool., 1839, 16 (Jalapa, Vera 
Cruz, Mexico). 
Ufellisuga] abeillet Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec., 1848, 112. 
[Ramphomicron] abeilleii Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 79. 
[Basilinna] y. Baucis abeillei RutcHensBacu, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 13. 
Basilinna abetilei RercwEnBacu, Troch. Enum., 1855, 11. 
Blaucis] abetllei Capanis and Herne, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 72 (Guatemala). 
Baucis aheillei Boucarp, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 23 (Cérdova, Vera 
Cruz); Notes Troch. du Mex., 1875, 10 (Cérdova; Guatemala).—Muusant 
and VERREAUX, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iii, livr. 2, 1876, 143; iv, livr. 3, 
1878, 219. 
a Sixteen specimens. b Three specimens. 
Ex- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | posed 
‘ culmen. 
MALES 
Six adult males from Vera Cruz.........--.22-222 eee eee eee eee eee ete ee neces 47.9 30.3 10.6 
Ten adult males from Chiapas (3) and Guatemala (7)......--.--------+--+--+++- 41.7 30.2 10.6 
