PICARIAE TROOrilLIDAE (?)DORICIIA ENICDEA. 



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Lower mandible reddish flesh-color; tip black. "The young male is less brilliantly col- 

 ored, and has the under surface brownish-gray, with a few of the sapphire-blue feathers 

 on the center of the throat." 



Female. Above, like the male. Beneath, of a uniform vinous-gray. Two central 

 tail feathers bronzy-green. Four outer feathers bronze-green at base, succeeded by a 

 broad, median band of indigo-blue ; the three outer tipped with white, the outermost 

 one most conspicuously. 



A young female has the feathers of upper surface tipped with fulvous. 



HAB. Mexico; Arizona (Henshaw). 



For the identification of this and the following species wo are indebted 

 to Mr. G. N. Lawrence, who has kindly compared the specimens forwarded 

 to him, and finds them identical with specimens in his collection from Mex- 

 ico and Guatemala. 



Of this curious rather than beautiful hummingbird, three specimens 

 were secured in the Chiricahua Mountains, at a point a few miles distant 

 from old Camp Crittenden. As the breeding season was entirely passed, I 

 was able to note nothing concerning its habits which served to distinguish 

 it from others of the family, save what appeared to be a constant habit of 

 frequenting the agaves ; and all the specimens taken were shot as they 

 were flying about these peculiar plants, in the neighborhood of which I am 

 confident I saw several others. Great numbers of this species are found in 

 Mexico ; and, as they there inhabit the mountains and table lands, the species 

 doubtless extends in summer through Northern Mexico, and finds in the 

 extreme southern partsof Arizona a suitable climate ; while an abundance 

 of the agave, to which plants it resorts in its more tropical home for at 

 least a great portion of its subsistence, serves as a further attraction. No 

 doubt these hummers are quite numerous in the locality I have referred 

 to earlier in the season, as well as in other similar places. 



(?)DORICHA ENICURA, Vieill. 



Slender Shear-tailed Hummer. 



Doricha cnicura, IJENSHAW, Am. Sportsman, v, Feb. 20, 1875, 328. 



SP. CHAE. Male. Tail excessively lengthened and forked; the outer pair of 



