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SYNOPSIS OF THE HUMMING-BIRDS. 



Fig. 53. 



Male. Entire upper parts and flanks bronzy-green. Chin black; throat metallic 

 ruby-red. Breast and under parts white, the latter tinged with green. Median 

 rectrices golden-green, lateral ones purplish-brown. Bill black. Total length, 3| 

 in. AVing, If in. Tail, If in. Culmen, If in. 



Female. Above golden-green ; beneath white. Tail — median 

 rectrices green, lateral ones green at base, then black with white 

 tips. ^^ 1101 ? 



2. Trochilus alexandri. 



Trochibis alexandri, BouRC. and Muls., Anu. Soc. Scien., Lyon (1846), toni. ix, p. 330. — Cass., 111. B. Calif., 

 p. 141, pi. 22. — Bon., Consp. Gen. Av., p. 81, vol. i. — Id., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (18.i4), p. 2.')C. — Gould, 

 Mon. Troch., vol. iii, pi. 132. — Id., Intr. Troch., octavo ed., p. 87. — Cab. aud Hein., Mus. Heiu. Th., iii, 

 p. oT (1860). 



Mellisiiija alexandri, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 113. 



Sela.'iphorus alexandri, Reich., Troch. Einim., p. 10 (1855). 



Archilochus alcxayidri, Rek-ii., Troch. Enuin., p. 10 (1855). 



Ornismya alexandri, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., torn, iv, p. 61 (1877). 



Hah. California and Mexico. 



Male. Top of head dark brown. Upper parts bronzy-green. Wings purplish- 

 brown. Throat black bounded beneath by a brilliant band of metallic-purple. 

 Breast white, rest of under parts bronzy-gray. Median 

 rectrices bronzy-green, lateral ones black glossed with Fig. 54. 



green. Total length, 3| in. Wing, If in. Tail, 1| in. 

 Culmen, }l in. Description taken from a specimen 

 collected at Sacramento, California, by Dr. xV. L. Ilear- 

 mann, now in my collection. 



Female. Top of head brown. Upper surface bronzy- 

 green ; under surface grayish-white. Central tail feathers 

 bronze-green, lateral ones greenish-gray at base, then black with white tips. 

 Bill black. 



Trochihia alexandri. 



Genus LTII.— CALYPTE. 



Cali/ptc, Gould, Intr. Troch., octavo ed., p. 87 (1861), dcscr. 

 Leu carta, Muls., Cat. Ois. Mouch. (1875), p. 31. 



Type. 

 O. costw, Bourc. 

 0. costw, Bourc. 



Fig. 55. 



Ch. "Bill longer than the head; straight or slightly 

 arched ; tail rather short, the three outer feathers 

 stiff, narrow, and slightly incurved ; tarsi clothed, 

 feet small, hind and fore toes nearly equal in length." 

 (Gould, 1. c.) 



Range. Mexico and the island of Cuba. 



The species of this genus have the head and face of the males brilliantly metallic, 

 and the feathers of the throat are elongated at the sides. They are small in size. 



Calypte annS. S. Cnlifoniia. Terre-inx. 



