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Co., Nfw Mexico, breeding up to 8,000 ft.). — Grinnell (J.), Pub. 2, Pasa- 

 dena Ac. Sci., 1898, 27 (Los Angeles Co., California, sum. resid.); Condor, 

 vi, 1904, 42 (Palm Springs, Riverside Co., California, Dec); Univ. Calif. 

 Pub. Zool., V, 1908, 70 (San Bernardino Mts., breeding on foothills). — 

 Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 221 (Culiacdn, Sinaloa).— 

 Snyder, Auk, xvii, 1900, 244 (Blue Lake, Idaho, July). — Carroll, Auk, 

 xvii, 1900, 344 (Refugio Co., Texas, transient). — Bailey (Florence M.), 

 Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 235.— Stone and Rehn, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1903, 27 (Dry Canon, Otero Co., New Mexico, breeding). — Swarth, 

 Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 4, 1904, 17 (Huachuca Mts., Arizona, up to 7,000 

 ft.). — Johnson, Condor, viii, 1906, 28 (Cheney, e. Washington, breeding). — 

 Miller (W. De W.), Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xxii, 1906, 167 (Rio Setin, n. w. 

 Durango, April). — Sharp, Condor, ix, 1907, 88 (San Diego Co., California, 

 breeding). — Kermode, Prov. Mus., 1909, 51 (Chilliwack, Brit. Columbia). 



[Trochihis] alexandri Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 256. — Coues, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 184. — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 

 1873, 84.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 140. 



M[ellisuga] alexaridri Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 113. 



[Selasphorus] ^. Archilochus alexandri Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854,13. 



[Selasphorus] alexandri Reichenbach, Troch. Enum., 1855, 10, pi. 855, figs. 

 5030-5032. 



Ornismya alexandri Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 91; Hist. 

 Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 1, 1877, 61. — Boucard, Notes Troch. du Mex., 

 1875, 4 (coast of Chiapas). 



{Ornisvxya\ aZexancZa Mulsant, Ann. Soc Linn. Lyon, n. s., xxii, 1876, 227. 



{Trochilus] alexandrei Simon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 38. 



ArcMlochus alexandri America.-^ Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxvi, 

 July, 1909, 298; Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 202. 



ARCHILOCHUS VIOLAJUGULUM « (Jeffries). 



VIOLET-THROATED HUMMING BIRD. 



Adult male J' — Pileum dull dusky green — almost black when viewed 

 from in front, more metallic from behind ; rest of upper parts, except 

 remiges and rectrices (but including middle pair of the latter), bronzy 

 green; remiges and primary coverts dull purplish dusky; tail (except 

 middle pair of rectrices) dull black, the feathers tinged at tips with 

 metallic green; a small wliite spot behind eye; chin and a rather 

 indistinct stripe thence backward beneath eye and along upper margin 

 of gorget opaque dull black; gorget metallic auricula purple (much 

 less violaceous than in A. alexandri), the posterior and lateral feathers 

 not elongated; chest dull grayish white; rest of under parts dull 

 light bronzy green, nearly uniform on sides and flanks, elsewhere 

 broken by whitish margins to the feathers, these particularly distinct 

 on the lower tail-coverts and along middle line of the belly; bill 

 black, feet dusky; length (skin), 86; wing, 47; tail, 33; middle 



a Probably a hybrid of Archilochus alexandri and Calypte anna. 

 b Description from type, no. 1616, coll. Dr. J. Amory Jeffries, (now in coll. Mtis. 

 Comp. Zool.). 



