650 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



DORICHA ELIZA (Lesson and Delattre). 



MEXICAN SHEAR-TAIL. 



Adult male. — Above metallic bronze or bronze-green, duller on 

 pileum, the forehead sometimes dull brownish gray; three lateral 

 rectrices (on each side) purplish bronzy black, the inner web of 

 second and third broadly edged -with light cinnamon; remiges deep 

 brownish gray, very faintly glossed with purplish; chin (except 

 anterior portion) and throat bright metallic solferino purple, tinged 

 with Adolet laterally or posteriorly; chest white; median portion of 

 breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts dull white, the latter (and 

 sometimes lower abdomen) tinged with cinnamon-buff; sides and 

 flanks (broadly) metallic bronze or bronze-green; femoral tufts wliite; 

 bill dull black; iris dark brown; legs and feet dusky; length (skins), 

 86-97 (93); wing, 34.5-36.5 (35.5); tail, 35.5-38 (37.1), middle rec- 

 trices 10-12.5 (11); exposed culmen, 20.5-22.5 (21.3).« 



Adult female. — Above similar to the adult male, but three outer 

 rectrices (on each side) with basal half (more or less) light cinnamon- 

 rufous, the two outermost broadly tipped with white and crossed by 

 a broad subterminal area of black, the third with terminal half black, 

 with or without a small wlnte tip; the second and third with more 

 or less of metallic bronze-green between the cinnamon-rufous and 

 black areas; under parts dull grayish white, more or less tinged with 

 brownish buffy, especially on flanks and under tail-coverts, the sides 

 and flanks (broadly) glossed wdth metallic bronze or bronze-green; 

 bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 82-85 (83); wing, 37.5-4C 

 (38.7); tail, 23-25 (24.4), middle rectrices 19.5-23 (20.8); exposed 

 culmen, 22-23 (22.4).^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Barranca de 

 Jico, near Jalapa; Mirador; Cordova; Llano de Camerones, near Vera 

 Cruz) and Yucatan (Merida; Progreso; Sisfi.1; Holbox Island). 



Trochilus eliza Lesson and Delattre, Rev. ZooL, 1839, 20 (between Vera Cruz 

 and Jalapa, Vera Cruz, Mexico). 



C[alothorax\ eliza Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 110. 



Calothorax eliza Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 288 (C6rdova, Vera Cruz). 



[Doricha] eliza Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 85.— Sharpe, Hand- 

 list, ii, 1900, 140. 



Doricha eliza Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 157 (Jalapa). 



D[oricha] eliza Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 200. 



[Lucifer] /?. Myrtis elisa Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 13. 



[Lucifer] elisa Reichenbach, Troch. Enum., 1855, 10, pi. 845, figs. 4996-4998.— 

 Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 257. 



Thaumastura elizse Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xiii, May, 1857; vol. iii, 1861, pi. 

 155.— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 299 (Mexico).— De Oca, Proc. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 552 (habits); La Naturaleza, iii, 1875, 17. 



o Seven specimens. ^ Four specimens. 



