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Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 220 (Coatepec, Vera Cruz).— 

 LooMis, Auk, xix, 1902, 83 (San Gorgonio Pass, Riverside Co., California, 

 1 spec, July 15, 1899).— Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 

 1902, 233, fig. 303.— SwARTH, Pacific Coast Avif., no. 4, 1904, 17 (Huacliuca 

 Mts., bet. 5,500-7,500 ft.; habits).— Miller (W. DeW.), Bull. Am. Mas. 

 N. H., xxii, 1906, 17 (Rancho Baillon and Arroyo del Buey, Durango). — 

 WiLLARD, Condor, xi, 1909, 102 (Ramsey Canon, Huachuca Mts.; behavior of 

 young bird).— Dearborn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. H., 1907, 99 (near 

 Tecpdm, Guatemala, 9,500 ft.). — Visher, Auk, xxvii, 1910, 282 (Santa 

 Catalina Mts., breeding above 6,000 ft.). — Phillips, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 78 

 (Rampahuila, Galindo, and Realito, Tamaulipas) 



E[ugenes] fulgens Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 20 (Mexico). — 

 CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 461.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1887, 309.— Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 113. 



[Eugenes] fulgens Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 80. — Mulsant 

 Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 213.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 122. 



Clytolxma fulgens Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 59. 



Ornismya rivolii Lesson, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., 1829, pp. xxvi, 48, pi. 4 

 (Mexico; coll. Rivoli); Index Gen. et Synop. Troch., 1832, p. xviii (Temas- 

 cal tepee). 



Trochilus rivolii Swainson, Birds Brazil, Mex., etc., [1841?], pi. 76. — Jardine, 

 Nat. Libr., Humming-birds, ii, 1833, 96, pi. 18. 



T[rochilus] papantzin De la Llave, Registro Trimestre, ii, no. 5, Jan., 1833, 

 48 (Mexico; see Richmond, Auk, xvi, 1899, 325). 



{?)Eugenes viridiceps Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon. (2), xxv, 1878, 55 (Coban, 

 Guatemala; see Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 329, 

 330); Liste Ois. recol. Guat., 1878, 45. 



EUGENES SPECTABILIS (Lawrence). 



ADMIRABLE HUMMING BIRD. 



Similar to E. fulgens, but larger; adult male with chest dull bronze- 

 green or bronzy (the feathers dull brownish gray beneath surface), 

 the under tail-coverts more greenish or bronzy brownish gray mar- 

 gined with pale buffy; adult female with outer rectrices more nar- 

 rowly tipped with darker brownish gray. 



Adult male. — Forehead black (a) becoming dull dusky green in 

 position b; crown and occiput metallic violet-blue (a) changing to 

 violet or royal purple (b) ; superciliary, supra-auricular, auricular, and 

 suborbital regions and nape velvety black (a) changing to bronze-green 

 or greenish bronze (c) ; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts rather dull metallic bronze-green, the feathers dusky 

 immediately beneath surface, brownish gray basally; tail dull bronze, 

 more dusky toward edge of inner webs of rectrices; remiges dusky 

 faintly glossed with bronzy purplish, the innermost secondaries \\dth 

 outer web mostly bronze-green; primary coverts dull black faintly 

 glossed with dusky green; a small white spot at posterior angle of 

 eye; throat bright metallic emerald green (a), more bluish green 

 posteriorly, changing to more bluish green in position h, the feathers 

 brownish gray beneath surface, this gray more or less exposed on 



