BIRDS OF NOETII AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 653 



bronzy dusky or blackish; a small post ocular spot (sometimes also a 

 rictal spot) of dull whitish; chin and throat brilliant metallic solferino 

 or magenta purple, changing to violet, the posterior feathers of sides 

 of throat much elongated; chest dull white; sides and flanks mixed 

 light cinnamon and metallic bronze or bronze-green, the median 

 j)ortion of ])reast and abdomen pale grayish or dull grayish white; 

 untler tail-coyerts dull white with a central area of pale brownish 

 gray; femoral tufts white; bill dull black; iris dark brown; feet 

 dusky; length (skins), 84-96 (89); wing, 36-39 (37.6); tail, 27-31 

 (28.6), middle rectrices 14-16.5 (15.3); exposed culmen, 19.5-22 

 (21.1).« 



Adult female. — Aboye as in adult male but lateral rectrices much 

 broader, the tliree outermost (on each side) with basal half (approxi- 

 mately) light cumamon-rufous, then (distally) purplish black, 

 the two outermost broadl}" tipped with white, the black terminal or 

 subterminal area on second and third separated from the cinnamon- 

 rufous of basal portion by a narrow space of metallic bronze-green; 

 fourth rectrix (from outside) mostly metallic bronze-green but 

 terminal or subterminal portion blackish and outer web edged basally 

 with light cinnamon-rufous; a postocular spot or streak of cinnamon- 

 buff, and beneath this a narrow auricular area of grayish brown; 

 malar region and underparts dull light yinaceous-cinnamon or cinna- 

 mon-buif, passing into dull whitish on abdomen, the under tail- 

 coyerts mostly (sometimes almost wholly) whitish; femoral tufts 

 white; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 83-92 (87); wing, 

 39-44 (41.2): tail, 23-27 (24.7), middle rectrices 16-21 (20); ex- 

 posed culmen, 20-22.5 (21.2).'' 



Mexico, hi States of Sinaloa (Mazatlan; Sierra Madre), Jalisco 

 (Bolailos; Lake Chapala), Durango (Rancho Baillon), Guanajuato 

 (Tupataro), Nueyo Leon (Monterey), San Luis Potosi (Sierra de San 

 Luis Potosi; Hacienda La Parada), Vera Cruz (Mirador; 

 Jalapa; Orizaba; Cordoya; San Andres Tuxtla), Puebla (Chalchi- 

 comula), Mexico (Temascaltepec; Valley of Mexico; Ajusco; Tetelco; 

 San Antonio, Coapa; Hacienda Eslaya; Ixtapalapa), Plidalgo (Real 

 del Monte), Guerrero (Chilpancmgo), and Chiapas (Ocozucuantla), 

 and northward into southern Arizona (Camp Bowie) and south- 

 western Texas (Chisos Mountains, breeding). 



Cynanthus lucifer Swainson, Philos. Mag., n. s., i, 1827, 442 (Temascdltepec, 

 Mexico). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 444, in text. 



C[alothorax\ lucifer Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 110. — Cabanis and Heine, 

 Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 55.— Heine, Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 207.— Coues, Key 

 N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 466.— Harteet, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 193. 



o Ten specimens. & Eight specimens. 



