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1909, 208 (Los Coronados Islands, April, common). — Kermode, Prov. Mus. 

 1909, 52 ("eastern Cascades and Rocky Mts.," Brit. Columbia). 



S[eIusphorus] alleni Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 463.— Hautert, 

 Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 205. 



[Selasphorus] alleni Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 140. 



TwcMlus alleni Ridoway, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., viii, sig. 23, Sept. 2, 1885, 355.— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 434. — Scott, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 431 (Santa Catalina Mts., Arizona, 4,500 ft., 1 spec, July). — 

 Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 30 (e. Cascade and Rocky Mt. 

 districts). — Lawrence (R. H.), Auk, ix, 1892, 44 (Grays Harbor, Wash- 

 ington, summer resid.). 



T[rochilus\ alleni Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 314. 



SELASPHORUS RUFUS (Gmelin). 



RTirOlIS HUMMING BIRD. 



Adult male. — Pilcimi dull metallic bronze or bronze-green; rest of 

 upper parts, including loral, orbital and auricular regions, sides of 

 oc(iput, and greater part of tail, plain cinnamon-rufous, the back 

 sometimes glossed with metallic bronze-green; rectrices with a ter- 

 mmal median, more or less fusiform or cuneate, area of purplish 

 or bronzy dusky; remiges dark brownish slate or dusky, faintly 

 glossed with puri)lish; chin and tliroat brilliant metallic scarlet; 

 changing to golden green in position h; chest white, passing through 

 cinnamon-buff posteriorly into cinnamon-rufous on rest of under 

 parts (paler medially) ; the under tail-coverts whitish basally ; femoral 

 tufts white; bill dull black; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length 

 (skins), 73-91 (84); wing, 38-41.5 (40.3); tail, 26-29 (27.9); exposed 

 culmen, 15-17.5 (16.5).« 



Adult female. — Above metallic bronze-green, usujilly slightly duller 

 on pileum; remiges dark brownish slate or dusky, faintly glossed 

 with purplish; middle pair of rectrices metallic bronze-green (usuallyj 

 more dusky terminally), both webs broadly edged basally with 

 cinnamon-rufous (sometimes with whole basal half or more of this 

 color); next pair with more than basal half cinnamon-rufous, then 

 metallic bronze-green, the terminal portion purplish black; three 

 outer pairs broadly tipped with white, the subtenninal portion 

 (extensively) purplish black, the basal half (approximately) cinna- 

 mon-rufous, the latter usually separated from the black by more or 

 less of metallic bronze-green; chin, throat, and chest dull white, the 

 throat usually with tips of some of the feathers metallic orange-red 

 or scarlet (changing to golden and greenish), sometimes with a large 

 patch of this color; rest of under parts cinnamon-rufous laterally, 

 fading into dull bufl'y whitish on breast and abdomen ; femoral tufts 

 white; under tail-coverts pale cinnamon-rufous or cinnamon-buff 

 centrally, broadly margined with white or buffy white, the longer 



a Eighteen Bpecimens. 



