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blackish; next pair dull bronze-gToeii with terminal third (more or 

 less) black, the subhasal portion edged (on both webs), more or less 

 distinctly, with cinnamon-bufT; next pair similar but with the black 

 relatively more extended and with an ai)ical s])ot (usuall}^ small and 

 wedge-shaped) of white; next similar but white a])ical spot larger 

 and basal half mostly brownish gray; outermost rectrix like the last 

 but only about the basal third grayish and white apical spot still 

 larger; auricular region light brownish gray; a dusky triangular 

 space in front of eye; chin and throat dull brownish white, usually 

 more or less streaked or flecked with dusky or bronzy brownish; 

 chest pale grayish cinnamon-bulf or dull whitish, the median i)ortion 

 of breast and abdomen similar; sides and flanks cinnamon or deep 

 cinnamon-buff, the under tail-coverts similar but paler; femoral tufts 

 and tuft on each side of rump white; bill, etc., as in adult male; 

 length (skins), 69-80 (75); wing, 41-44 (42.8); tail, 19.5-22.5 (21.5); 

 exposed culmen, 15-16 (15.6).'^ 



Young male. — Apparently not essentially if at all different from 

 the adult female but older individuals with some metallic purple 

 or purplish red feathers on middle of throat. 



Young female. — Similar to the adult female but general color of 

 upper parts more decidedly bronzy, with feathers very narrowly 

 and indistinctly margined terminally with didl brownish or grayish 

 bufiy. 



Western United States and British Columbia, south in winter 

 over western and central Mexico; north to British Columbia (both 

 sides of Cascade range, southern Rocky ]\Iountains, and interior dis- 

 tricts), and northern Idaho (Fort Sherman) ; east to Montana (Belt 

 Mountains; Fort Ellis; Bear Creek; McDonald County), Colorado 

 (Cheyenne Canyon; near Breckinridge, 9,500 feet; Antonito), New 

 Mexico (Inscription Rock; Santa Fe Mountains; Pecos River; Pecos 

 Baldy; El Moro; Hondo Canyon), and extreme western Texas (El 

 Paso); breeding in mountains, chielly above 5,000 feet, nearly to 

 southern border of United States. Mexican localities: Sinaloa (Los 

 Pieles) ; Michoacan (Patzcuaro, October) ; Guerrero (Amula) ; Mexico 

 (near City of Mexico; Ajusco; Tetelco; Cerro de Guadalupe Pedregal) ; 

 Aguas Calientes (Calvillo). 



Trochilus {Calothnmx) calliope Gould, Proc. Zuol. Sue. Loud., 1847, 11 (Mexico; 

 coll. J. Gould?). 



C[alothorax] calliope Guay, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 110. 



[Calothorax] calliope Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 85. — Gray, Ilanddiyt, i, 

 1869, 135, no. 1735. 



Calothorax calliope Gould, Mon. Troch., pL. xv, Sept., 1857; vol. iii, 1861, pi. 

 142.— Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 190 (Ft. Tejon, Califor- 

 nia).— D'Oca, La Naturaleza, iii, 1875, 27 (Valley of Mexico); Troq. de 

 Max., 1875, 18, pi. (3), fig. 10. 



a Ten specimens. 



