Genus Hemistilbon Gould

Nearly allied to Cyanomyia is the genus Hemistilbon.

Generic characters.

Male.— Bill longer than the head and straight; wings moderately long and considerably curved; tail rather short and truncate; tarsi clothed; feet rather small; hind toe shorter than the middle toe; nails short and curved.

Although I have placed this genus next to Cyanomyia, I consider that it has some relationship to the Amaziliæ.

• 319.

  Hemistilbon Ocai (Gould)

  Habitat: Mexico

  Plate 289 Amazilia Ocai D’Ocai’s Amazili

  This beautiful species was discovered by M. Rafael Montes de Oca at Xalapa.

  • Amazilia Ocai, Gould.
  • Pyrrhophaena Ocai, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 36, note.
• 320.

  Hemistilbon Norrisi

  Habitat: Bolanos in Central Mexico

  No illustrations

  In this genus I provisionally place the Trochilus Norrisi, of which a single specimen exists in the Loddigesian collection, but unfortunately is so situated that I could not subject it to so careful an examination as I could have desired.

  • Trochilus Norrisii, Bourc. Proc. of Zool. Soc. part xv. p. 47.
  • Polytmus Norrisi, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 108, Polytmus, sp. 71.
  • Amazilia Norrisii, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p. 10; Id. Troch. Enum. p. 8.
  • Amazilia norrisi, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 254.
  • Pyrrhophaena Norrisi, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 36, note.