SELASPHOKUS. 



Ill 



feathers, covering all the throat and extending on to i'ig- CO. 



the sides of the neck, brilliant coppery-red with brassy- 

 reflections in certain lights. Upper part of breast white. 

 Wings pnrplish-brown. Tail short, cuneate, all the 

 feathers acutely pointed. Median rectrices rather 

 broad, lateral ones narrowing rapidly to the outermost 

 which is extremely attenuated. Bill straight, black. 

 Total length, 3^l in. Wing, 1^ in. Tail, Ig in. Cul- 

 men, | in. 



Female. Above green. Throat white spotted with metallic-red. Under parts 

 white, washed with rufous on the flanks and abdomen. Under tail coverts buffy- 

 white. Median rectrices green, lateral ones rufous at base, then green and then 

 black tipped with white. Bill black. 



6. Selasphorus scintilla. 



Trochilus [Selasphorus) scintilla, Goci.d. P. Z. S. {18.i0), p. 162. 



Selas2>liortis scintilla, Gould, Moii. 'rroch.. vol. iii, pi. 138.- — Id., Intr. Troch., octavo cd.. p. 89. — Retch., Aufz. 

 der Colib., p. 13 (1853) —Id., Troch. Ennm., p. 10 (1855).— Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (1854), p 257.— 

 Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hcin. Th., iii, p. 5G (1800).- Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Moucli., torn, iv, p. 104 (1877). 



ITah. Costa Rica and Vcragua. 



Male. This species is a diminutive of S. rn,fus. The upper parts are a darker 

 green, and there is no rufous on the sides of the back. Throat and under parts 

 like S. rufus. Tail rufous with a median line of pui-plish-black on the central 

 feathers, external ones rufous on inner web, purplish-black on the outer. Maxilla 

 black, mandible flesh-color at base, rest black. Total length, 2g in. Wing, 1| in. 

 Tail, 1| in. Culmen, g in. 



Female. Head blackish-brown; upper parts golden-green. Throat white spotted 

 with buff, rest of under parts like the male. Median rectrices bronze-green margined 

 with rufous, lateral ones rufous, with a subterniinal black bar. Bill black. 



Pijr. Gl. 



7. Selasphorus hensha^vi. 



Trochilus nifus, Een.sh., Bull. Xutt. Ornith. Club (1877), vol. ii, p. 54. 

 Selasphorus henshawi, Elliot, Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club (1877), vol. ii, p. - 



ITab. Mexico, northwards along the Pacific coast to 

 Sitka. 



Male. Top of head metallic-green; upper parts cinna- 

 mon, but some specimens have green feathers intermixed 

 with the rufous ones on the back. Throat metallic- 

 orange, not brilliant as in the other species. Breast and 

 centre of abdomen white; flanks and under tail coverts 

 rufous. Tail rufous tipped with dark brown; feathers 

 pointed at tip, median pair broad, lateral ones growing 

 narrower to the outermost which is the most attenuated. 

 On the inner web near the tip of the rectrices next the median pair is a well- 



