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344. PyRRHOPHANA CERVINIVENTRIS, Gould.
Amazilia cerviniventris, Gould : : ; : ; 3 : ; : ‘ i Vol Vv RE 309.
Pyrrhophaena cervinwentris, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 36, note.

Habitat. Mexico. In the neighbourhood of Cordova, according to M. Sallé.

345. PyRRHOPHANA CASTANEIVENTRIS.
Amazilia castaneiventris, Gould : : : : F ; 5 : : , Vol. V. Pl. 310.
Habitat. New Granada.

346. PyrrHopH@Nna RIEFFERI.
Amazilia Riefferi . ; : : : : : : : : ‘ : ; : Wolk, Wo IPL Silil.

Ornismya amazili, Delatt. Echo du Monde Savant, No. 45, Juin 15, 1843, col. 1069.
Trochilus arsinoides, Sauc. in Mus. of Berlin.
Pyrrhophaena Rieffert, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 36.
= uous, Cal: et Hein. ab: p36:
—— suavis, Cab. et Hein. ib. p. 36, note.

Habitat. Southern Mexico, Guatemala, and along the Andes to Ecuador.

Nearly thirty specimens are now before me from these various countries, among them M. Bourcier’s type
specimen of his Trochilus Dubusi, also specimens collected by Warszewicz in Costa Rica; and I see nothing to
induce a belief that there is any specific difference between those found in Mexico, Guayaquil in Ecuador, or in
any of the intermediate countries. I admit that differences occur both in size and in the fringing of the outer tail-
feathers : generally speaking, they are darker in the Costa Rican and New Granadian specimens ; but I have some

quite as bronzy from those countries as the generality of specimens found in Honduras and Guatemala. These

latter are the birds to which the term Dubusi has been applied.

347. PyRRHOPHHNA BERYLLINA.
Amazilia beryllina .

; : : ; : : : : s ; ‘ Vol ve Pl 312)
Halitat. Southern Mexico. M Botta found it at Orizaba, and M. Sallé at Cordova.

348. PyrRRHOopHANA DEVILLEI.

Amazilia Devillei_. : : : ; ‘ : ‘ : : ; : ‘ ; Wolo. Pl 313:

Saucerottia maria, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 255 ?

Chlorestes Mariae, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pl. 695. fig. 4549.

Panychlora Mariae, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 49, note.

Amazilia Dumerili, Salv. Ibis, vol. ii. p. 270.

Habitat. Guatemala.

Speaking of this species, which by some inadvertence he has called A. Dumerili instead of A. Devillei, Mr. Salvin
says, ““ During the months of July, August, and September, one of its most favourite resorts was the western
boundary of the Llafio of Duefias, which, starting from the village and bounded to the eastward by the river
Guacalate, extends, sweeping by the Volcan de Fuego, almost to the Hacienda of Capertillo, its southern extremity.
Dispersed all over this plain is found, in groves, patches, and isolated trees, a Tree Convolvulus, bearing a white
flower, and attaining an average height of about 25 or 30 feet. During the above months this elegant species might
be seen in almost every tree, some feeding among the flowers, some settled quietly on a dead branch, uttering their
low, plaintive, hardly to be called musical, yet certainly cheering song, others less peacefully occupied in a war of
expulsion, driving out by vehement cries and more effectual blows the tenant of a tree, which in its turn wreaks

vengeance on some weaker or unexpectant antagonist.’’—Jbis, vol. ii. p. 270.

349. PyRRHOPHNA VIRIDIGASTER.
Amazilia viridigaster : : : 5 ; : : : : ; , : Vol Ve Bi aie
Chlorestes viridiventris, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p- 4, pl. 699. figs. 4564-65.
Hemithylaca viridiventris, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 38.

Habitat. New Granada. Common in the neighbourhood of Bogota.

350. PyYRRHOPHANA IODURA.
Trochilus iodurus, Sauc. in Mus. Hem.
Saucerottia iodura, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p. 8.