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tail-coverts and tail deep cinnamon-rufous, the rectrices with a ter- 

 minal, more or less fusiform, streak of purplish black or dusky, the 

 lateral ones with this dusky confined mostly to outer web; remiges 

 dark brownish slate or dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; loral, 

 orbital, auricular, and postocular regions deep cinnamon-rufous, tliis 

 sometimes extending, brokenly, across nape; chin and throat bril- 

 liant metallic scarlet or orange-red, changing in position I to golden 

 and greenish, the latero-posterior feathers of the gorget elongated; 

 chest white, passing gradually into pale cinnamon-rufous or cinnamon- 

 buff on breast and abdomen, this into deep cinnamon-rufous on sides 

 and flanks; femoral tufts white; under tail-coverts cinnamon-rufous, 

 paler basally; bill dull black; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length 

 (skins), 82-90 (86); wing, 36.5-38.5 (37.8); tail, 25-26.5 (25.6); 

 exposed culmen, 15-16.5 (15.9)." 



Adult female. — Above metallic bronze-green, the upper tail-coverts 

 with basal portion light cinnamon-rufous (partly exposed) ; middle 

 pair of rectrices with basal half (laterally, at least) cinnamon-rufous, 

 the terminal half (more or less) metaUic bronze-green; next pair 

 similar, but terminal portion (extensively) black, the tip of inner web 

 sometimes with a small spot of white; three outer rectrices (on each 

 side) broadly tipped with white, crossed by a broad subterminal area 

 of black, the basal portion cinnamon or dull hght cinnamon-rufous, 

 this separated from the subterminal black (at least on third rectrix) 

 by more or less of metallic greenish; remiges dark brownish slate or 

 dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; under parts dull white (some- 

 times slightly tinged with pale cinnamon-buffy), passing into light 

 cinnamon-rufous on sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts, the throat 

 usually spotted, more or less, with metalhc orange-red or scarlet; 

 bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 78-90 (85); wing, 41-42 

 (41.6); tail, 23-26 (24.7); exposed culmen, 17-18.5 (17.8).'' 



Young male. — Similar to the adult female, but upper tail-coverts 

 mostly (sometimes wholly) cinnamon-rufous, rectrices more exten- 

 sively cimiamon-rufous, and throat strongly tinged with cinnamon- 

 rufous and spotted or speckled with dark bronzy. 



Pacific coast district of Cahfornia and southern British Columbia 

 (158-niile House, Caribou District; east side of Cascade range and 

 southern Rocky Mountain district), eastward through southern Cah- 

 fornia to southern Arizona (Bisbee; Santa Catalina Mountains; 

 Iluachuca Mountains), and to northern Lower Cahfornia (Piilon, 

 San Pedro Martir Mountains) ; breeding, locally (in Upper Sonoran 

 and Transition zones), nearly throughout its range, as well as on 

 Santa Barbara Islands (San Clemente ; Santa Catalina; Santa Cruz); 

 in migration extending to Los Coronados Islands, I^iower CalifoiTiia, 



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