BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDI^E AMERICA. 667 



trix sometimes (in younger birds ?) with light gray replacing chestnut- 

 rufous, except on part of inner web; remiges dusky, faintly glossed 

 with violaceous; under parts pale brownish gray laterally, whitish 

 medially, the throat usually with a darker median stripe, often inter- 

 mixed with metallic orange or golden feathers; bOl, etc., as in adult 

 males; length (skins), 84-96 (92); wing, 51-58 (53.7); tail, 29-35 

 (30.9); exposed culmen, 13-17 (14.8).« 



Immature. — Similar to the adult female, as described above, but 

 without any rufous on tail, the basal half, or more, of rectrices (except 

 middle pair) being brownish gray, faintly glossed with greenish or 

 bronzy, the shaft of that portion being whitish. Immature males to 

 be distinguished by a greater or less number of scattered metallic red 

 feathers on pileum and a median stripe of metallic orange or golden 

 on throat or throat and chest. 



Yot<7i^.— General color of upper parts cinnamon-rufous, this uni- 

 form on rump, but broken elsewhere by exposed dusky basal portion 

 of feathers, the hindneck glossed with metallic bronze; otherwise like 

 the immature stage, described above, but under parts of body and 

 under tail-coverts suffused with pale cinnamon-rufous and whitish tips 

 to outer rectrices tinged with the same. 



Northern and eastern South America, from Colombia (Bogota; 

 Bonda, Santa Marta; Rio Lima; Rio Cauquita; Cauca; Ocana; 

 Cartagena; Bucaramanga), through Venezuela (Ciud^d Bolivar; 

 Caracas; Conejos; Cucuruti; Guaria; Cariaco; Caura; Caicara; 

 mouth of Rio Meta; La Pricion), islands of Margarita, Blanquilla, 

 Los Testigos, Bonaire, Aruba, Curasao, Tobago, and Trinidad, British 

 Guiana (Georgetown, Demerara; Annai River), Cayenne (Sinna- 

 mary), to Brazil (Macuca; Pernambuco; Par^; Baliia; Rio de 

 Janeiro; Serra dos Organos; Minas Geraez; Goiaz; Porto Re^l); 

 southwestern Costa Rica (San Pedro). 



[Trochilus] mosquitus Linn/EUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 120 ("Indiis"); ed. 



12, i, 1766, 192 ("America").— Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 147, no. 1900. 

 [Trochilus] moscMtus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 494. — Latham, Index 



Orn., i, 1790, 316. 

 Trochilus moschitus Audebert and Vieillot, Ois. Dores, i, 1801, 62, pi. 29 



(Brazil; Guiana). — Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 82. — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. 



d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 372, pi. 13, 19, fig. 2 (Cayenne; Brazil).— Jardine, Ann. 



and Mag. N. H., xx, 1847, 373 (Tobago).— Cabanis, in Schomburgk's Reis. 



Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 705. 

 T[rochilus] moschitus Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 14 (Brazil). — Swainson, 



Birds Brazil, Mex., etc., [1841?], pi. 30. 

 ' Ornismya moschita Lesson, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., 1829, pp. xxviii, 166, pis. 



52-54 (Guiana); Les Trochilidees, 1831, 55, pi. 15; Index Gen. et Synop. 



Troch., 1832, p. xxxvi. 

 Mellisuga moschita Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiv, 1826, 253. — Leotaud, 



Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 145. 



o Fifteen specimens. 



