;i!(() TKOCHILl. 



112. CALOTHORAX. „, 



i.vpe. 



Calotliorax, Gray, Gen. B. p. 13 (1840) C. lucifer. 



Lucifer, Reich. Aiifz. d. Col. p. 13. 



Amathusia (Manilla), Muh. ii,- Terr. Class. Troc/i. p. 86 



( 1865) C. pulchra. 



Ornismva (Lucifer), Mids. lij- Verr. C/ass. Troch. p. iy<6 



(I860) C. lucifer. 



Ranrfe. Mexico from the Central Plains to the State of Oaxaca. 



Kei/ to the Species. 



a. Outermost rectrix filiform, gradually narrowed to a 



point lucifer, p. 390. 



b. Outermost rectrix normal pulchra, p. 391 . 



1 . Calothorax lucifer. 



Cynanthus lucifer, <SV, Phil. 3Iai/. new ser. i. p. 4A'2. 



Ornismva evanopogon, Z*-*-*-. Mist. JSat. Ois.-Mouehes, pp. xvi, xlvi, 



50, pi. 5 { Sttppl. p. 117, pis. 9, 10 ; id. Traite d'Orn. p. 274. 

 Trochilus evanopogon. Less. Ind, Gen. Troch. ]). xxiii ; ftw. Birds 



Brazil Sf Me.i: pi. 77. 

 Trochilus simplex. Less. Hist, Nat. Col. p. 86, pi. 23 ; id. Ind. G4n, 



Troch. p. xiii. 

 Trochilus corruscus, Licht. Preis-Verz. Mea: Vor/. p. 1 (cf. J.f. Orn. 



1803, p. 55). 

 Calothora.x lucifer. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 110 ; id. Hand-l. B. i, p. 135 ; 



Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 85 ; Cah. Sf lleine, Mas. Hein. iii. p. 55 ; Scl. 



Cat. Am. B. p. 298 ; id. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 177 ; Goidd, hitr. Troch. 



p. 90 ; Mids. Hiet. Nat. Ois.-Muuches, iv. p. 26 ; id. Ann Soc. Idnn. 



Lyon, xxii. p. 226 ; Later. Mem. Bost. >Soc. X. H. ii. p. 291 ; Elliot, 



Syn. Troch. p. 118; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Cull. p. .■?(i4. 

 Lucifer S. Calothorax tendali, Eeich. Auft. d. Ctd. p. 13. 

 Lucifer evanopogon, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 13 ; id. Troch. Enuni. 



p. 10, pi. 843. ff. 4990-1; Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 257. 

 Lucifer labrador, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 287. 



Calothorax cyanopogon, Gould, Mon. Troch. iii. pi. 143 (Sept. 1857) ; 

 Villada, La Xat. ii. p. 357 ; de Oca, La Nat. iii. p. 104 : Boueard, 



Ami. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 21. 

 Ornismva (Lucifer) cyanopogon, Mids. ^~ Verr. Class. Troch. p. 91. 

 Trochilus lucifer, Finsch, Abh. nat. T'er. zu Bremen, 1870, p. 324. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining golden green, duller on the 

 ciown, more golden on the rump ; throat glittering lilac-red ; breast, 

 middle of the abdomen, and under tail-coverts white ; flanks pale 

 fulvous, washed with shining green ; tail purple-black, the lateral 

 rectrices tipped with white, the four central rectrices shining olive- 

 green : bill black. Total length about 3'5 inches, wing I'o ; tail, 

 central rectrices 0*6, longest 1-2; bill 1. 



Adult female. Under surface pale fulvous ; ear-coverts dark 

 brown; lateral rectrices fulvous at the base, white at the tip, and 

 with a wide subterminai black band. 



Yninui mates like the female, the glittering gular feathers being 

 gradually assumed. 



Hub. Mexico. 



