578 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Remédios, Antioquia; Las Cruces), Ecuad6r (Baeza; Quito; Sarayacu; 
Nanegél; Chimbo; Parambo), Venezuela (Yauca, Caura; Nericagua; 
Munduapo; Suapuré; La Prieion), Trinidad, Tobago,? Aruba, Car- 
riacou, British Guiana (Demerara; Merumé Mountains; Atapuroni 
River), and Cayenne to Brazil (Pernambuco; Par&é; Rio Negro; 
Humaytha; Borba; Arumatheua, Tocantins; Rio de Janeiro, and 
Peru (Pebas; Iquitos; Xeberos; Chamicuros; Yurimaguas; Rio Javari; 
Callacate). 
[Trochilus] mellivorus Linnaus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 121; ed. 12, i, 1766, 
193 (based on White-bellied Humming Bird, Avis mellivora, ventre albo Edwards, 
Nat. Hist., i, pl. 35, upper fig.).—GmeE.in, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 499.— 
Latuam, Index Orn., i, 1790, 310. 
Trochilus mellivorus AUDEBERT and Viertuot, Ois. Dorés, i, 1801, 55, pl. 23 
(Cayenne; Guiana)—TEmmMinck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 82.—ViertLoT, Nouv. 
Dict. d’Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 360.—Vicors, Zool. Beechey’s Voy., 1839, 25 
(Rio Janeiro, Brazil; habits; food).—Caxsanis, in Schomburgk’s Reis. Brit. 
Guiana, iii, 1848, 706.—BuRMEISTER, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 339. 
T{rochilus] mellivorus Viertuot, Tabl. Enc. Méth., ii, 1822, 562. 
Ornismya mellivora Lesson, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., 1829, pp. xxiii, 90, pls. 21, 
22; Index Gen. et Synop. Troch., 1832, p. xx (Guiana; Brazil; ‘‘Martinique”). 
[Florisuga] mellivorus BONAPARTE, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 73; Rev. et Mag. de 
Zool., 1854, 253. 
[Florisuga] mellivora SctateR and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1878, 83.—Mut- 
sant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 212.—SHarpr, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 
102. 
Florisuga mellivora Goutp, Mon. Troch., pt. ii, 1851; vol. ii, 1861, pl. 113; Introd. 
Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 80.—RzE1cHENBACcH, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 14; Troch. 
Enum., 1855, 12:—Moorg, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 53 (Belize, Brit. 
Honduras).—ScuaTer and Satvyy, Ibis, 1859, 128 (Guatemala); Proc. Zool. 
Soc. Lond., 1864, 365 (Lion Hill, Panam4); 1867, 584 (Par& and Cobati, Rio 
Negro, Brazil); 1868, 628 (Venezuela); 1870, 837 (San Pedro, Honduras); 
1873, 287 (Xeberos, Chyavetas, Chamicuros, and Pebas, e. Peru); 1879, 529 
(Remédios, Antioquia, Colombia).—ScuaTEerR, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 
95 (Naneg4l, Ecuador); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 295 (Cayenne).—Taytor, Ibis, 
1863, 91 (Trinid4d).—Muusant and VERREAUX, Classif. Troch., 1866, 47; 
Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., ii, livr. 3, 1876, 176 (n. Brazil to e. Peru, Ecuador, 
and Mexico); iv, livr. 4, 1878, 204 (synonymy).—Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., 1867, 155 (Cordillera de Tolé and Santiago de Ver4gua, Panamé); 
Ibis, 1872, 319 (Chontales, Nicaragua); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 329, 
665 (Belize, etc., Brit. Honduras; Chocttim, Guatemala; Chontales, Nica- 
ragua; Costa Rica; Volcdn de Chiriquf, Cordillera de Tolé, Santiago, Lion 
Hill, and Paraiso, Panam4; etc.).—Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., vii, 1862, 
292 (Lion Hill, Panamé); ix, 1868, 122 (Costa Rica); Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 
xiv, 1871, 284 (‘‘Tres Marias,’’ error; see Berlepsch, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 
xi, 1888, 561); Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 291 (‘‘Tres Marias”).—Lay- 
ARD, Ibis, 1863, 388 (Para, Brazil) —PELZzELN, Orn. Bras., i. Abth., 1868, 30; 
iv. Abth., 1870, 481.—Franrzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 315 (Costa Rica).— 
Bovucarp, Notes Troch. du Mex., 1875, 2 (Lana, Choapdém, Oaxaca; Guate- 
@The Tobago bird has, however, been separated on account of its much larger 
size. (Florisuga mellivora tobagensis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, April 
19, 1910, 55 (Tobago; coll. U. 8. Nat. Mus.). 
