PICAKIAE TKOCH1LIDAE EUGENES FULGENS. 



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EUGENES FULGENS (Swains.). 



Refulgent Hummingbird. 



Eugenes ful(/ens, HENSHAW, Am. Nat., April, 1874, 241. Id., Kep. Orn. Specs., 1873, 

 Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 132. COTJES, Check-List, 1874, app., 131. (?) Id., 

 Birds Northwest, 1874, 271 (iu text). 



SP. CHAR. Male: tail rather deeply emargiuated ; head above violet purple! 

 rest of upper parts bronzed greeu, becoming pure bronze on the tail; gorget 

 brilliant emerald green, with strong purple reflections; lower portion of breast and 

 abdomen opaque black, more velvety toward the green of throat; sides of body dull 

 green ; wing above and below dull purple ; upper and lower wing coverts green ; 

 crissum pale brownish-gray ; bill and feet black. Female : tail double-rounded; above 

 dark metallic-green, each feather edged with ash, below dull white ; feathers of throat 

 and fore part of breast with dull grayish-green centers; sides green, edged with ash ; 

 wing dull purple ; each feather of the tail, except the two central, which are green 

 throughout, with broad purple baud ; three outer tail-feathers broadly tipped with 

 dull white, which, ou the outer, exteuds slightly farther up on the outer web. Length, 

 4.61 ; wiug, 2.43 ; tail, 1.75 ; bill, 1.09. 

 HAB. Mexico ; Arizona (Ilenshaw). 



A single female of this large and beautiful species was taken at Camp 

 Grant in 1873, thus giving the bird a place in our fauna ; but no information 

 was obtained of its abundance or the regions it affects. Fully expecting 

 to find the species a summer inhabitant of the mountain districts of Southern 

 Arizona, I was not surprised, when, on reaching Mount Graham, I found 

 the supposition verified. During the first three days of August I secured 



