BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 655 



[Lucifer] labrador Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 257. 



Doi-icha enicura (not Trochilus enicurus Vieillot) Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. 

 ^^^leeler's Surv., 1873 (1874), 162 (Camp Lowell, Arizona); Am. Sportsman, 

 V, 1875, 328 (Camp Bowie); Zool. Expl. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 381 (Camp 

 Bowie; see Lawrence, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 108). 



T[rochiluf^] cohuatl De la Llave, Registro Trimestre, ii, no. 5, Jan., 1833, 47 

 (Mexico; see Richmond, Auk, xvi, 1899, 324). 



CALOTHORAX PULCHER (Gould). 



BEAUTIFUL HUMMING BIRD. 



Similar to C. lucifcr, but bill much more slender and less decurved; 

 adult male with lateral rec trices much broader (nearly as wide as 

 next pair), rounded (instead of acuminate) at tip, the tail much 

 longer; adult female with under parts much less rufescent (more 

 buffy grayish). 



Adult male. — Above metallic bronze or bronze-green, including four 

 middle rectrices, the rest of tail plain purplish bronzy black; remiges 

 dull brownish slate or dusky, faintly glossed with puq:)lish; a small 

 postocular spot of whitish; chin and throat brilliant metallic magenta 

 purple, changing to violet and blue, the more posterior feathers on 

 sides of throat much elongated; cliest dull white or gra3ash white, 

 the median portion of breast similar, passing into metallic bronze or 

 bronze-green on sides and into light cinnamon-rufous on flanks; 

 femoral tufts and under tail-coverts white; bill dull black; iris dark 

 brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 77-89 (84); wing, 35-39 (36.7); 

 tail, 28-31.5 (29.2), middle rectrices 12-16.5 (13.9); exposed culmen, 

 17-18.5 (17.9).« 



Adult female. — Above metallic bronze or bronze-green, duller 

 (sometimes dull grayish brown) on pileum or forehead; middle pair 

 of rectrices bright bronze-green, the next pair similar but becoming 

 blackish terminally or subterminally; three lateral rectrices (on each 

 side) with basal half (approximately) light cinnamon-rufous, then 

 (distally) black, the two outermost broadly tipped with white (the 

 third sometimes with a small apical spot of white); remiges dull 

 brownish slate or dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; under parts 

 pale dull grayish buffy, deepening on sides and flanks into more 

 decided cinnamon-buff; femoral tufts white; bill, etc., as in adult 

 male; length (skins), 81-82 (81.5); wing, 36.5-40.5 (38.5); tail, 22-24 

 (23); exposed culmen, 18.5-19 (18.7).^ 



Southern Mexico, in States of Puebla (Tehuacan; Chalchicomula), 

 Oaxaca (Putla; Tehuantepcc; Oaxaca; Tamazulapdm) and Guerrero 

 (Venta de Zopilote). 



Calolhorax pulchra Gould, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d scr., iv, 1859, 97 (Oaxaca, 

 Mexico; coll. J. Gould); Men. Troch., pt. xix. May, 1860; vol. iii, 1861, pi. 

 144; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 91.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



o Eight speciroene. b Thr»« specimens. 



