416 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



AMIZILIS FORRERI Boucard. 



FORRER'S HUMMING BIRD. 



Adult male. — Above bright metallic golden green, duller or more 

 brownish on pileum, the rump and upper tail-coverts chestnut; 

 median rectrices purplish chestnut passing into reddish bronze ter- 

 minally, the remaining rectrices purplish chestnut edged terminally 

 or subterminally with reddish black, the outermost pair wholly 

 purplish chestnut; throat and sides of neck metallic golden green; 

 breast, abdomen, and anal region white; flanks pale rufous; under 

 tail-coverts pale chestnut margined with white; remiges brown, more 

 purplish on secondaries; maxilla black, mandible flesh color with 

 black tip; length (skin), 200; wing, 54; tail, 38; culmen, 19. '^ 



Western Mexico, in State of Sinaloa (Mazatlan). 



Amazilia forreri Boucard, The Humming Bird, iii, no. 1, March, 1893, 7 (Mazat- 

 lan, Mexico; coll. A. Boucard); Gen. Hum. Birds, 1894, 193. 

 A[mazilia]foneri Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 63 (monogr.). 

 [Amazilia] forreri Sharps, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 109. 



AMIZILIS RUTILA RUTILA (Delattre). 



CINNAMOMEOTJS HUMMING BIRD. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above metallic bronze, varying from slightly 

 greenish bronze to golden; upper tail-coverts metallic bronze mesi- 

 ally, broadly margined with light cinnamon-rufous or tawny-rufous, 

 the shorter lateral coverts mostly of this color; tail deep cinnamon- 

 rufous or rufous-chestnut, the rectrices broadly tipped with dark 

 metallic bronze, the outer web of outermost rectrix edged for most 

 of its length with the same; remiges dark brownish slate or dusky, 

 faintly glossed with violaceous; under parts deep vinaceous-cinna- 

 mon or light dull cinnamon-rufous, slightly paler on chin and upper 

 throat; femoral tufts and inconspicuous lumbar tufts white; bill pale 

 brownish (carmine red or deep pinkish red in life) dusky at tip; iris 

 dark brown; feet dusky. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 85-109 (99); wing, 52.5-60 (56.5); 

 tail, 31-37 (34.6); culmen, 19.5-23.5 (21.2).^ 



« I have not seen this species, which seems to be very distinct. The above descrip- 

 tion is adapted from that by Boucard in "Genera of Humming Birds" (p. 193). 

 b Thhly-three specimens. 



