518 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
[Baucis] abeille: SctateR and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 88. 
[Baucis] abeillei Mutsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s., xxii, 1876, 221 —Hrnz 
and ReicuEeNnow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 187 (Guatemala). 
Daucis abeilleti Boucarn, Liste Ois. réc. Guat., 1878, 46. 
Adelomya abeillei MuULSANT and VERREAUX, Classif. Troch., 1866, 71. 
[Trochilus] abetllet Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 142, no. 1840. 
Al[betilea] abetlleti Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 215 (monogr.). 
[Abetileia] abetilei Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 143. 
Abetllia typica? Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 79, in text under Ramphomicron 
abeillet. 
Abeiliia typica Exiiot, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 184.—ZELEDON, Cat. 
Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 21; Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 122.— 
Satvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 358, 666 (Mexico; Cob4n, Volcén 
de Fuego, and Pié de la Cuesta, San Marcos, Guatemala)—SaLvin and 
Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 342 (Jalapa and Cérdova, Vera 
Cruz; Tolimdn in Solol4, etc., Guatemala; Matagalpa, Nicaragua).—Bov- 
carp, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 55 (Jalapa; Cobdén). 
Myiabeillia typica Gouup, Mon. Troch., iv, pt. viii, Oct., 1854 (vol. iv, 1861), 
pl. 211; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 119.—Sciater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., 1856, 287 (Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 304.—Sciater and Satvin, 
Ibis, 1859, 128 (Cob4n).—Satvin, Ibis, 1860, 195, 262, 263 (Cob4én and 
Volc4n de Fuego; habits). 
[ Myiabeillia] typica Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1854, 253. 
Myjiabiellia typica D’Oca, La Naturaleza, iii, 1875, 205 (Jalapa); Trog. de Mex., 
1875, pl. (10), fig. 35. 
Myjiabiellia tipica D’Oca, Troq. de Mex., 1875, 47. 
Genus DAMOPHILA Reichenbach. 
[Coeligena.] 8. Damophila ReicnenpacH, Aufz. der Colib., March(?), 1854, 7. 
(Type, Ornismya julie Bourcier.) 
Juliamyia Bonapartr, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., vi, May, 1854, 255. (Type, 
J. typica Bonaparte=Ornismya julie Bourcier.) 
Rather small Trochilids (length about 78-90 mm.) with bill about 
as long as head, straight, and terete; nasal operculi feathered; tail 
about two-thirds as long as wing (in female) to three-fourths as 
long (adult males), graduated, blue-black in both sexes; adult males 
with under parts of body bright metallic violet-blue, the chin and 
throat brilliant metallic green, in abrupt contrast. 
Bill as long as head, straight, terete; culmen broadly rounded but 
basally contracted into a narrow mesorhinal ridge; tomia smooth; 
mandible with a narrow median lateral groove and maxilla with a 
faint indication of a similar groove. Tarsus feathered; middle and 
inner toes about equal in length, the outer slightly shorter, the hallux 
slightly shorter than lateral toes; all the toes slender. Wing about 
three times as long as exposed culmen, the outermost primary longest. 
Tail about two-thirds as long as wing (in females) to three-fourths 
as long (in adult males), graduated, the rectrices rather narrow, the‘ 
lateral ones contracted terminally but all with rounded tip. 
