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broad ; bill long, stout, and straight, nearlj^ as 

 long as tail ; outer tail-feathers tipped with white 



in both sexes Floricola} 



g\ Wing less than 2.00 (1.30-1.70) ; tail forked in males, 

 double-rounded in females ; bill slender, distinctly 

 curved (except in two or three species of Boricha) ; 

 outer tail-feathers tipped with white only in fe- 

 males; wing about 1.30-1.70. 

 A'. Tail shorter than wing or exposed culmcn, the 

 feathers j)ointed in adult mules. 



Calothorax. (Page 316.)' 

 A'. Tail longer than wing, or else longer than ex- 

 posed eulmen, the feathers not pointed in 



either sex Doricha? 



p. Exposed eulmen less than half as long as wing. 



(/'. Tail 2.25, or more, rounded, feathers very broad, the 

 three outermost broadly tipped with white in both 

 sexes; shafts of three outer quills very strong, 

 often enormously thickened ; wing 2 90-3.20 ; 

 adult male (of the Mexican species) with head, 

 neck, and lower parts rich metallic violet or 

 violet-blue, the female graj' beneath, with blue 



throat Campylopterus} 



g\ Tail less than 2.25. 



h\ Tail moi'c than three-fourths as long as wing, 



forked for more than one-fourth its length, 



the feathers broad and rounded at tips; adult 



males whollj- bright green beneath, the tail 



blue-black, or bronze-black. 



j". Middle tail-feathers blue-black, like the rest 



(tipped with dull grayish in Mexican 



species) ; females and young males with 



outer tail-feathers grayish white, or pale 



' Floricola Elliot, Class, t Synop. Troch. Sept. 1878, 82. Type, Trochilui longirottrii Tibill. (Two 

 species inhabiting pine forests of Mexican highlands, another in Guatemala, two or three others in monntains 

 of northern South America.) 



' As a subgenus of Trorhilu», in accordance with the A. 0. U. Check List, but in reality a very distinct 

 genus. 



' D'^Hcha Reich., Aufi. der Colib. 1853, 12. Type, Trocliilus enimrut Vieill. (One Mexican, one Guate- 

 malan, and two Bahaman species.) 



« Campylopleriu SwAiss., Zool. Jour. 1826, 328. Type, Trochilut largipcnnu Bonn. (One Mexican species, 

 — a splendid bird,— one peculiar to Guatemala, and several in northern South America. The first, C. heml/eii- 

 citnii (LiCHT.), is the largest hummingbird found north of the Isthmus of Panama, being nearly six inches in 

 length. It is very possibly the species to which Dr. R. W. Shufcldt, l'.S..\., refers in a letter dated .Tunc 9, 

 1S86, as having been seen by him the day before, near Fort Wingate, Xew Mexico, and which he described as 

 being "fully large enough for Emjentt /ulyeng, and whirre<l like an old quail." 



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