TROCHILID^ — TROCHILIN^ : HUMMING-BIBDS. 



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Pig. 301. - Refulgent Humming-bird, head, 

 nat. size. (From Elliot.) 



Pig. 302. —Tail of the same, (f , 

 nat. size. (Prom Elliot.) 



chestnut, with a dark terminal spot. Length 3.50; extent 4.75; wing 2.10; tail 1.25; biU 

 0.72. Cape St. Liica.s. 

 135. EU'GENES. (GiY. evy(vr)s, eugenes,we\\-hora.) Fulgent Hummers. Of great size: about 5 

 inches long. Bill niucli longer than head, not quite straight, Hatteued and slightly widened at 

 base, subcylindrical in continuity, with lancet -pointed tip. Frontal feathers extending on nasal 

 scale. Tail ample, in $ moderately forked, in 9 double-rounded, all the feathers broad, with 

 rounded ends. Tarsi feathered. A tuft of downy white at insertion of feet. Outer primary 

 but little narrower or more falcate than the rest. Sexes nearly alike in form, unlike in color. 

 Hill black ; no white on taU of $. 

 408. E. ful'gens. (Lat. fulgens, glittering. Figs. 301, 302.) Refulgent Humming-bird. ^ : 

 Tail simply forked. General body-color shining golden-green above and below, duller on belly 

 and crissum, on breast showing opaque black when viewed from before backward. Crown 



glittering metallic vio- 

 let in proper light, 

 opaque black viewed 

 obliquely from behind 

 forward. Gorget glit- 

 tering emerald-green 

 in proper light, opaque 

 greenish-black from 

 the opposite direc- 

 tion. White marks about eyes. Tail like body, but more brassy. Wing-coverts and lining of 

 wings like body ; quiUs dusky-purplish. Large : length about 5.00 ; extent 6.50 ; wing 2.75 : 

 tail 1.75 ; biU over an inch from the feathers on culmen, nearly 1.50 along gape. 9 • Upper 

 parts like those of the ^, but crown like back. No emerald gorget, the whole under parts 

 whitish, specked here and there with green, the throat with dusky specks. Wings as in ,^, but 

 tail very different; double-rounded, both central and lateral feathers shorter than intermediate 

 ones ; middle feathers brassy-green, others the same in decreasing extent, increasing in blackish 

 towards ends, and squarely tipped with duU white. Smaller : length about 4.50 ; wing 2.50 ; 

 tail 1.50 ; bill, however, about as long. Our largest and most magnificent species, lately 

 discovered in Arizona. Texas ? 



TRO'CHILUS. (Gr. rpoxiXos, trocMlos, Lat. trocMlus 



Herodotus : by Linnaeus transferred to Humming-birds.) 



Gorget Hummers. Bill slender and subulate, not widened 



at base ; frontal feathers covering nasal 



scale. Tail in ^ forked or emarginate, 



with lanceolate feathers; in 9 sin^- 



ply rounded or double-rounded, with 



broader feathers. Outer four primaries 



not peculiar; but the 1st one strongly 



curved or bowed at end inwards ; inner 



six abruptly smaller and more linear (in 



^ at least). Tarsi naked. Bill black. 



A metallic gorget in ^, not prolonged into a ruff; no scales 



on crown. 9 lacking the gorget ; and tail white-tipped. 



T. co'lubris. (Latinized from the barbarous colibri. Figs. 



299 303, 304.) Ruby-throated Humming-bird. ^: p.^. 304. - Ruby-throated Hum- 

 Tail forked, its feathers all narrow and pointed ; no scales ming-bird, cf. nat. size. (From Elliot.) 

 on crown ; metallic gorget reflecting ruby-red. Above, golden-green ; below, white, the sides 

 green; wings and tail dusky-purplish. 9: Lacking the gorget; throat white, specked with 



a runner : a plover so named by 



Pig. 303. — Ruby 

 throated Humming- 

 bird, 9, tail, nat. size, 

 (From Elliot.) 



