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without cinnamon-rufous edgings, the white tips also less purely 

 white, those of inner rectrices sometimes cinnamomeous; chin and 

 throat white, conspicuously spotted with metallic bronze; rest of 

 under parts as in the adult male, but sides and flanks more extensively 

 and uniformly cinnamon-rufous, and imder tail-coverts more or less 

 strongly tinged with the same; length (skins), 64-75 (69); wing, 

 35.5-38 (36); tail, 19-23 (21.2); exposed culmen, 11.5-13 (12.4). « 



Young male. — Similar to the adult female, but tail, sides, and 

 flanks as in adult male (the middle pair of rectrices, however, wholly 

 bronze-green or greenish bronze). 



Central and southern IMexico, in States of Tamaulipas (Galindo; 

 Realito), Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi (Sierra San Luis Potosi), 

 Aguas Calientes(Calvillo), A^era Cruz (Jalapa; Cordova; Orizaba; San 

 Lorenzo; Cuesta delMisantla; Cofre de Perote; San Andres Tuxtla), 

 ^Mexico (Valley of Mexico), Oaxaca (15 miles west of OaxacaCity; 

 Totontepec), Guerrero (Omilteme; Chilpancingo) and Territory of 

 Tepic (Tepic). 



0{rnysm:ki\ hdoisa Lesson and Delattre, Rev. Zool., ii, no. 1, Jan., 1839, 15 

 (Jalapa and Coatepec, Vera Cruz, Mexico). 



M[ellisugd\ heloisa Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 113. 



T[ryphiena] heloisa Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 257. 



TrypJmna heloisse Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 297 (Oaxaca); 1859, 367 

 (Jalapa) . 



[TrocMlus.] 0. Atthis heloisa Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 12. 



[Trochilus] heloisa Reichenbach, Troch. Enum., 18.55, 10, pi. 835, figs. 4966- 

 4968.— Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 145, no. 1870. 



Trochilus heloisa American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 435. — 

 Herrera, La Naturaleza, (2), i, 1891, 322 (Valley of Mexico). 



T[rochilus] heloisa Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 315. 



Selasphorus? heloisx Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. \dii, Oct., 1854, pi. 2; vol. iii, 1861, 

 pi. 141. 



Selasphorus heloisx Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 288 (Cordova, Vera 

 Cruz); 1859, 386 (Totontepec, Oaxaca); 1864, 177 (Valley of Mexico); Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 298.— Mul.sant and Verreaux, Clas.sif. Troch., 1866, 89.— 

 Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 281.— D 'Oca, La Naturaleza, iii, 1875, 19 

 (Jalapa); Troq. de Mex., 1875, pi. (1), fig. 3. 



[Selasphorus\ heloisx Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 185. 



Selasphorus heloisa D'Oca, Troq. de Mex., 1875, 9. 



Atlhis heloisx Gould, Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 89. — Reichenbach, Aufz. 

 der Colibr., 1854, 12. — Elliot, Illustr. New and Unfig. Birds N. Am., pt. 

 xii, 1868, pi. (vol. i, 1869, pi. 21); Cla.ssif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 113.— 

 Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, 361 ("Southern New Mexico;" error). — Boucard, 

 Notes Troch. du Mex., 1875, 7, part (Cordova, Jalapa, Orizaba, and San 

 Andres Tuxtla, Vera Cruz); Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 12 (Jalapa; San Andres 

 Tuxtla). — MuLSANT and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 2, 

 1877, 91. — Villada, La Naturaleza, ii, 1874, 357 (Valley of Mexico).— 

 Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 10 (descr.; synon.; crit.); iii, 1880, 



a Eight specimens. 

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