114. TROCHILUS. 399 



Ramie. North America : Mexico and Central America, in winter, 

 to Chiri(]ui. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Throat trhttering ruhy-red cohibris, p. 399. 



b. Chin and upper part of the throat black, lower part 



glittering violet-purple alexanclri, p. 402. 



1. Trochilus colubris. 



Red-throated Humming Bird, Echo. Nat. Hist. i. pi. 38 ; Lath. Gen. 



Sijn. i. p. 769. 

 Huuimiug Bird, Cateshij, Carolina, i. p. 65, pi. 65. 

 Red-throated Honey Sucker, Penn. Arct. Zool. i. p. 286. 

 Mellisuga carolinensis, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 716, pi. 36. ff. 5, 6. 

 Rubis. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 13 ; Aiul. Ois. Dor. i. p. 80, pis, 



31^33. 

 Trochilus colubris, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 191 ; Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 492 ; 

 Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. i. p. 73, pis. 31, 32 ; id. N. Diet. (FHist. N. 



vii. p. 371 ; id. Enc. Meth. p. 369; id. Gal. Ois. i. p. 293 ; Wih. 



Am. Orn. ii. p. 26, pi. 10. ff. 3, 4 ; Aud. Orn. Biogr. i. p. 248 ; id. 



B. Am. i. pi. 47; Sic. Faun. Bor.-Am. ii. p. 323; Less. Ind. Gen. 



Track, p. xxxiv ; Bj}. Consji. Av. i. p. 81 ; id. Eev. Zool. 1854, p. 256; 



Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 12 ; id. Troch. Enum. p. 10, pi. 826. ff. 4939- 



44; Guid'd, Mon. Troch. iii. pi. 131 (Mav 1858); id. Litr. Troch. 



p. 86 ; Baird, B. N. Am. p. 131 ; Scl. Sj' Sale. Ibis, 1859, p. 129 ; 



Salv. Ibis, 1860, pp. 195, 263, 266 ; id. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 208; id. 



Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 364 ; Cab. ^ Heine, Mns. Hein. iii. p. 57 ; Scl. 



P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 367, 386, 1864, p. 176 ; id. Cat. Am. B. p. 297 ; 



Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 470 ; Baird, Ibis, 1867, p. 288 ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 136 ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 123 ; id. 



Bull. U.S. Nat. Mm. no. 4, p. 32; Fraiitz. J.f. Orn. 1869, p. 315 ; 



Elliot, Ibis, 1872, p. 354; id. Syn. Troch. -p. 105 ; Villada, La Nat. 



ii. p. 352 ; Baird, Brewer, ^- Ridgw. N. Am. B. ii. p. 462 ; de Oca, 



La Nat. iii. p. 22 ; Gundl. Orn. Cub. pp. 28, 107, 234, 271 ; id. 



J. f. Orn. 1878, p. 180 ; Bovcard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 70 ; id. P. Z. S. 



1883, p. 451; Merrill, Auk, i. p. 146; Nutting, Pr. U.S. Nat. 



Mns. vi.p. 394; Ridgtr. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. ]). 573 ; Ferrari- 

 Perez, Pr. U.S. iVrtf. Mus. X. p. 157 ; Breicster, Auk, iii. p. 105 ; 



Cory, B. West Ind. p. 148 ; Rwhm. Auk, v. p. 21 ; Lloyd, Auk, v. 



p. 191 ; Everm. Auk, vi. p. 23 ; Fa.von, Auk, vi. p. 44 ; Allen, Auk, 



vi. p. 77; Faavn 6f Allen, Auk, vi. p. 151 ; Scott, Auk, vi. p. 252; 



Purdie, Auk, vi. p. 314. 

 Ornismya colubris, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-3Iouches, pp. xvi, xlvi, 151, 



pis. 48, 48 bis ; Muk. ^ Terr. Class. Troch. p. 91 ; Muls. Hist. 



N^at. Ois.-Moiicli^s, iv. p. 52 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. 



p. 226. 

 Orthorhynchus colubris, d'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Cuba, p. 99. 

 Trochilus aureigaster, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 58. 

 Trochilus aurigularis, Heine, J.f. Orn. 1863, p. 208. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining grass-green, dusky on the 

 crown, brighter on the rump ; under surface white, dusky on the 

 middle of the abdomen, whiter on the breast, the flanks washed 

 with green; chin black; throat glittering ruby-red; tail blue- 



