Birds of north akd middle America. 633 



[Ornis7nya] colubris Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. a., xxii, 1876, 226. — Bou. 



CARD, Notes Troch. du Mex., 1875, 4. 

 Me[llisuga] colubris Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zoo!., xiv, pt. i, 1826, 247. 

 Mellisuga colubris Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' ExpL Zuiii and CoL R., 1853, 



65 (Indian Territory; Texas). 

 M[eUisuga] colubris Gray and Mitchell, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 113. 

 Melisuga colubris Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba). 

 "Cynanthus colubris, Jard[ine], Nat. Libr. Humming-Birds, vol. ii, p. 143." 



(Elliot.) 

 Orthorhynchus colubris D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1840, 126. 

 Archilochus colubris American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxvi, 



July, 1909, 298; 3d ed., 1910, 202.— Stansill, Auk, xxvi, 1909, 395 (central 



Alberta, rare). 

 Trochilus aurigularis a Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vii, 1862, 458 



(locality unknown; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.; =discolored alcoholic specimen). 

 [Twchilus] aureigularis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 136, no. 1746. 

 T[rocMlus] aureigularis Heine, Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 208. 



ARCHILOCHUS ALEXANDRI (Bourcier and Mulsant). 



BLACK-CHINNED HUMMING BIRD. 



Adult male. — Above rather dull metallic bronze-green, darker and 

 duller on pileum, the forehead sometimes dull dusky; remiges dark 

 brownish slate or dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; tail (except 

 middle pair of rectrices) bronzy purpHsh black; loral, suborbital, 

 auricular, and malar regions, cliin, upper throat, and sides of throat 

 uniform opaque or velvety black ; lower throat metallic violet or violet- 

 purple, changing to black in position h; chest dull grayish white 

 or very pale brownish gray, the under parts of body similar, but 

 usually more decidedly grayish medially, the sides and flanks darker 

 and glossed or overlaid with metallic bronze or bronze-green; under 

 tail-coverts brownish gray (sometimes glossed with bronzy) centrally 

 or medially, broadly margined with wliite; femoral tufts and tuft on 

 each side of rump white; bill dull black ; iris dark brown ; feet dusky; 

 length (skins), 80-88 (86); wing, 41.5-44 (42.7); tail, 23.5-28 (25.6); 

 middle rectrices, 20.5-23.5 (21.9); exposed culmen, 18-20.5 (19.2).^ 



Adult feinale. — Above rather dull metallic bronze-green, the pileum 

 much duller, usually dull grayisli brown or brownish gray, at least on 

 forehead and crown; remiges dark brownish slate or dusky, faintly 

 glossed with purplish; three outer rectrices (on each side) broadly 

 tipped with white, the subterminal portion (extensively) black, the 

 basal half (more or less) metallic bronze-green (sometimes grayish 

 basally) ; under parts dull wliite or grayish white (more purely white 

 on abdomen and under tail-coverts), the throat sometimes streaked 

 or guttately spotted with dusky; femoral tufts and tuft on each side 



fl"Wrongly cited as "Trochilus aureigaster {aureigula?)'" in Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 

 1874, 448, in text, and as "Trochilus aureigaster Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 

 p. 58" by Salvin in Cat. Birds Brit. Mufl. 



b Ten specimens. 



