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To do this effectively it will be necessary to replace some of the species in the
O :

ience enables me. :
as my experience ené a further subdivision of the remainder. In go doing

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it must not be understo into which the birds appear to be naturally divided. ‘To particularize the pro-

distinctive appellation the sections

e found in the West India Islands. : , |
Ff 1 asily recognized, each of them having well-marked characters. There is but little difference in the
and are eas g :

The equatorial regions of the Andes are their head-quarters ; and it is there

The members of the genus Amazilia, as restricted, are all of somewhat large

SIZE,
outward appearance of the sexes. | |
that we find the A. pristina, the A alticola, the A. Dumerili, and the A. leucophea. These four species, I consider,
hat w 4. ; ;

very natural section.
ae Genus Amaziiia, Rezchend.

é : : i Vol. V. Pl303,
338. AMAZILIA PRISTINA  . : ‘ : : : ; : :
Phatthornis Amazili, Jard. Nat. Lib. Humming-Birds, vol. u. p. 152.
Pyrrhophaena Amazilia, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil i. p. 35.

Habitat. The neighbourhood of Lima in Peru.

339. AMAZILIA ALTICOLA, Gould . ; : : : : : : : : : : Vol. V. Pl. 304.

Habitat. The high lands of Central Peru; the precise locality uncertain.

340. Amazit1a DuMERILI . : : : s : : : : : : : : Vol. V. Pl. 305.
Pyrrhophaena Dumerili, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil ii. p 36. note.

Habitat. Ecuador, on the coast in the neighbourhood of Guayaquil, and on the Isle of Puna. Found also at
Babahoyo by Mr. Fraser, who states that the bill is red with a black tip.

341. AmMaziLia LEUCOPHa@A, Reichenb. . : : : ; : : : : : : Vol. V. Pl. 306.
Pyrrhophaena leucophaea, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii p. 35.
Habitat. Southern Peru. Collected in the vicinity of the Volcano of Arequipa by M. Warszewicz.

I retain Dr. Cabanis’s generic term Pyrrhophena for the ten succeeding species :—

Genus Pyrruopumna, Cad.
342. PyrRHOPHANA CINNAMOMEA.

Amazilia corallirostris . : : : : : : : : ; : : Vol Veins 0
Ornismya cinnamomea, Less. Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 175.

Ormsmya rutila, Delatt. L’Echo du Monde Savant, No. 45, Juin 15, 1843, col. 1069.

Pyrrhophaena corallirostris, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil ll. p. 35, note.

Habitat. Central America.

“This species,” says Mr. Salvin, “seems to be an inhabitant of the hot sea-bord only, and does not extend its

vertical range to a greater elevation than 2000 feet. In such regions on the Pacific coast it is very abundant, and

is, in fact, the commonest of the family—in some parts almost swarming. In every village numbers may be seen

flitting about the blossoms of the orange and lime trees. Its horizontal range appears to be extensive, and may be

emala, from the confines of Chiapas to the State of San
Salvador, and probably also embraces the Balsam Coast of that republic,

Tigré Island in the Bay of Fonseca.” —Jbis, vol. i. DLs:

“It is common about San Gerdnimo ;

said to include the whole of the southern portion of Guat

as Captain Taylor obtained examples on

but seems not to be found in the colder and more elevated portions of
the republic, neither occurring at Duefias nor Coban.

A nest with two young and the hen bird was brought to me
Dec. 6th; the young were half-

grown, and would have flown in about ten d
as the feathers are concerned, the sexes are alike. A

much more of the brill

ays. My specimens show that, as far
difference, however, exists in the bill,—that of the male having
ant colour from which the species takes its

name, in the upper mandible. In the young bird
the upper mandible is black.” —Thbis, y

ol. ii. pp. 268, 269.
343. PyRRHOPHANA YUCATANENSIS.
Amazilia Yucatanensis

Vol. V. Pl. 308.
Habitat. Yucatan.