414 TROCHILI. 



i-t.(Sad.;u-z.S Santa F(5 Mts., N. Mexico Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 juv.; «'-«?'. 9 ad.; {H. W. II.). 

 e'. $ juv. sk. 

 f,ff'. cjad. sk. Colton, Cal., April {F. Ste- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



p/ie»s). 

 h'. iS ad. sk. San Bernardino, Cal., June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{F. Stephens), 

 i'. 2 ad. sk. White Mts., Arizona, Aug. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. TV. H.). 

 ). (S ad. sk. Arizona (H. W. H). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



'k'. $ ad. sk. Mexico {Fluresi). Gould Coll. 



/'. c? ad. sk. Mexico. Salvin-(Todman Coll. 



7n'-o'. c? ad. ; p'. Valley of Mexico. Gould Coll. 



r? juv. sk. 

 q'. (S' ad. sk. Valley of Mexico (Boucard). Sclater Coll. 



r', s'. (S ad. sk. Ajusco, Valley of Mexico, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sept. (W. B. Richardson), 

 t'. cT ad. sk. Amula, Guerrero, Aug. (Mrs. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



H. H. Smith). 



121. CH.ZETOCERCUS *. 



Type. 



Chsetocercus, Gray, Gen. ^ Subgen. B. p. 22 (1856) .... C. jourdani. 



Omismya (Osalia), Mnls. t^ Verr. Class. Troch. p. 92 



(1865) C. jourdani. 



Polyxemus, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iv. p. 123 



(1877) C. bombus. 



Range. Venezuela, Trinidad, Ecuador, and Tucuman. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Second and third rectrices from the outside 



longest, equal in width and subequal in length. 

 a . Longest rectrices v^rith the basal portion of the 

 inner web, including the shaft, cinnamon. 



a". Throat glittering rosy-red rosa, p. 414. 



b". Throat glittering violet-red jourdani, p. 415. 



b'. Second rectrix black, third cinnamon on its 



inner web for nearly its whole length burmeisteri, p. 415. 



b. Second rectrix from the outside shorter than the 



third and acute ; throat glittering rosy-red .... bombus, p. 416. 



1. Chaetocercus rossB. 

 Trochilus rosse, Bourc. ^ Muls. Ann. Sc. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, ix. p. 316 



(1846). 

 Mellisuga rospe. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 113. 

 Lucifer 8. Calothorax rosffi, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 13. 

 Calothorax roste, Bp. Rev. Zool 1854, p. 257 ; Gould, Mon. Troch. 



iii. pi. 149 (Sept. 1857) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 145. 

 Chfetocercus rosse. Cab. ^ Seine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 60 ; Gould, Intr. 



Troch. p. 92 ; Scl. ^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 629, 1875, p. 235 ; 



Mids. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iv. p. 127, pi. 112 ; id. Ann. Soc. 



Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 228 ; Flliot, Syn. Troch. p. 121. 

 Omismya (Osalia) rosse, Muls. Sr Verr. Class. Troch. p. 92. 



* I do not know the bird from Ecuador described (Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. 1889, 

 p. 230) by M. Simon as : — Ch.etocercus nEULEi'Scmi. 



