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the famia of that Ten-itory. This was in August, when the birds were 

 migrating ; in this section it appears wholly absent duiing summer. 



SELASPHORDS PLATYCEKCUS (Swains.). 



Broad-tailed Hummiiigbird. 



Trochilvs platycercus, Swains., Phil. Mag., i, 1827, 441 (Mexico). 



Selasphorus platycercus, Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, 135, 922.— Id., U.S. & Mex. Bound. 

 Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 6, pi. v, figs. 1, 2. — Henry, Proc. Acad. >^at. 

 Sci. Phila., 1859, IOC (New Mexico).— CouES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1866, 57.— Cooper, Proc. Cal. Acad., 1801, 68.— W., Birds Cal., i, 1870,357.— 

 Allen, Bui. Mus. Coinp. Zool., iii, 1872, 180 (western edge of plains, and 

 mountains of Colorado up to timber line ; Cheyenne, Wyo. ; Ogdeu, Utah). — 

 CouES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 185.— Hold., Proc. Bost. Soc. Kat. Hist., 



1872, 200 (Wyoming).— Bd., Brew., & Ridg., X. A. Bird.s, ii, 1874, 462, pi. 

 47, f. 5.— Henshaw, An. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, 1S74, 8.— Id., An. 

 List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 47. — Id., Rep. Orn. Specs., 



1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 88, 132.— Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 271. 



The Broad-tailed Hummer possesses a wide distribution, and in Utah, 

 Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona is the most common and generally diffused 

 of the family ; being found in the breeding season thi'oughout the mountain 



