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Calliphlox rufa Bonaparte, Comp. and Geog. List, 1838, 10. — Gambel, Proc. 



Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1846, 111; Weigmami's Archiv f iir Naturg., xiv, 1848, 82. 

 Polytmus ru/us Woodhouse, Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuui and Col. R., 1853, 



66 (New Mexico). 

 Trochilus ruffus Audebert and Vieillot, Ois. Dor^s, i, 1802, 110, 111, pis. 



61, 62. 

 [Trochilus] collaris Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 318 (based on T. rufns Gmelin; 



cites also Sasdnecr sasin Cook's Last Voy., ii, 297, etc.). 

 Trochilus collaris Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 75; Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 



Nat., vii, 1817, 374 (cites Ois. Dorc'vs, pis. 61, 62).— Shaw, Gen. Zool., viii, 



1811, 343. 

 T[rochilus] collaris Vieillot, Tabl. Enc. M6tli., ii, 1822, 571. 

 [Selosphorus] ruber (not Trochilus ruber Linnfeus)a Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 



1850, 82. 

 [Selasjihorus] ruber Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 256. 

 Selasphorus ruber Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 13; Troch. Enum., 



1855, 10, pi. 852, figs. 5021-5023.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 



126 (San Jos6 Valley, California); 1858, 297 (Oaxaca). 

 S[clasphorus'\ ruber Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1800, 50 (California). 

 Selasphorus henshaivi Elliot, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, Oct., 1877, 97, 102 (crit.); 



Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 111. 

 " Trochilus sitkensis Rathke (Bonaparte)." 



SELASPHORUS FLORESH Gould. & 



FLORESI'S HUMMING BIRD. 



Adult male. — Forehead and crown, chin, and throat gUttering 

 metalhc rose red, changing to scarlet, especially on chin and upper 

 throat; occiput, lundncck, back, scapulars, wing-coverts, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts metallic bronze-green; remiges dusky, or 

 dull bro^vnish slate, faintly glossed with purplish; middle pair of 

 rectrices metalhc green (much less bronzy than back, etc.), the outer 

 web broadly edged with rufous-chestnut nearly to the tip, the inner 

 web similarly marked for basal half; next rectrix chestnut-rufous 

 with a median stripe of purplish-black, this stripe gradually coming 

 to a point before the base of the feather is reached, but in the other 

 direction widening so as to reach the edge of each web about 6.3 

 mm. from the tip; next rectrix similar, but the black occupying 

 whole mdth of outer web to a distance of half an inch from 

 the tip, but much restricted on iimer web; next with the black 

 extending about as far along the edge of the outer web, but not 

 reaching farther along the shaft, while on the inner web it follows 

 the shaft no farther than 5 mm. from the tip; lateral rectrix dusky, 

 with shaft chestnut-rufous nearly to the tip and inner web a paler 



a Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 193; based on Little Brown Humming Bird Edwards, 

 pi. 32; Oiseau- Mouche Pourpre Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., \i, 24; Mellisuga surinamensis 

 Bri.sson, Orn., iii, 701. 



f* Almost certainly a hybrid of aS. allcni and Calypte anna. 



