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tint of the same for about the basal half; chest pale brownish gray, 

 paler anteriorly against the lower margin of the metallic gorget; 

 middle line of breast and belly similar; sides and flanks metallic 

 bronze-green, the feathers margined mth pale brownish gray; axillars 

 and adjacent smaller under \ving-coverts light cliestnut or cinna- 

 mon-rufous; femoral do^\^ly tufts white; under tail-coverts pale 

 cinnamon-rufous, becoming grayish white on latero-basal portion; 

 bill black; wing, 43.2; middle rectrices 25.4, longest rectrices (third 

 pair), 30.5, shortest (outer pair), 24.1; exposed culmen, 1G.5." 



Bolaiios, Jalisco, 1845;^ San Francisco, Cahfornia, 1885; Hay- 

 wards, Alameda Co., California, Feb. 20, 1901; near Nicasio, Marin 

 Co., California, Feb. 26, 1909. 



Selnspliorus floresii (not Trochilus Jloresii Bourcier, 1846 c) Gould, Mon. Troch., 

 pt. xxiii, Sept. 1, 1861, pi. 10; vol. iii, 1861, pi. 139 (Bolauos, Jalisco, Mexico; 

 coll. J. Gould; ex Trochilus Jloresii Loddiges, manuscript); Introd. Troch., 

 oct. ed., 1861, 89.— MuLSANT and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 89; 

 Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 2, 1877, 98 (Bolaiios).— Villada, La Natur- 

 aleza, ii, 1874, 356.— De Oca, La Naturaleza, iii, 1875, 101, pi. 6, fig. 21; 

 Troq. de Mex., 1875, 31, pi. (6), fig. 21. — Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 

 xxii, 1876, 20; Notes Troch. du Mex., 1875, 7.— Elliot, Classif. and Synop. 

 Troch., 1879, 109.— Bryant, Forest and Stream, xxvi, no. 22, July 24, 

 1886, 426 (San Francisco, Cal.).— Ridgway, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mua. for 1890 

 (1891), 340, pi. 38, fig. 1; Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 598.— Salvin, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 392. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 352. — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, 

 Auk, X, 1893, 62; Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 431.1.— Bendire, Life Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 209.— Emerson, Condor, iii, 1901, 68 (Haywards, 

 Alameda Co., California, 1 spec, Feb. 20, 1901). — Grinnell (J.), Pacific 

 Coast A\'ifauna, no. 3, 1902, 41 (California records). — Bailey (Florence M.); 

 Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 238.— Taylor (W. P.), Auk, xxvi, 1909, 291, 

 in text (near Nicasio, Marin Co., California, 1 spec, Feb. 26, 1909; crit.). 



a Description from no. 2020, coll. Walter E. Bryant, from San Francisco, California. 

 This specimen agrees exactly with Mr. Gould's description and colored figures except 

 in some minor and unessential points, and since Mr. Gould's description and figures, 

 though from the same specimen, do not agree with one another, it is altogether likely 

 that neither is quite correct. Mr. Gould describes the color of the middle pair 

 of rectrices as "green with purple reflexions," and the lateral ones as having the 

 outer webs "purple" and the "inner webs deep reddish buff," but they are not so 

 colored in the plate, which represents the middle pair as green with a continuous 

 broad border of rufous, and the outer pair as uniform purplish dusky, the interme- 

 diate rectrices being rufous with a narrow median stripe of purplish dusky, expanding 

 into a wedge-shaped space near the tip. The coloration of the tail as represented 

 in the plate agrees very well with that of the San Francisco specimen, except that 

 the latter has the basal half of the inner web of the outermost rectrix rufous, and 

 lacks the rufous border around the end of the middle rectrices the rufous running 

 out to the edge a little past the middle of the feather, and thus confined to a little 

 more than the basal half. 



b It is possible that the specimen (Gould's typo) in reality came from California, 

 since Floresi collected there as well as in Mexico. 



c Trochilus Jloresii Bourcier, Rev. Zool., 1846, 316 (Jamaica); =Anthracothorax 

 mango (Linnajus). 



