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Camp Apache, Ariz . . . 

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EUGENES FULGENS (Swaius.). 

 Refulg:ent Hnminin^bird. 



Evijenes fulgcns, Henshaw, Am. Nat., April, 1874, 241. — Jrf., Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, 



Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 132.— Coues, Check-List, 1874, app., 131.— (!) /</., 



Birds Northwest, 1874, 271 (in text). 



Sp. CHAR. — Male: tail rather deeply emargiuated; head above violet purple! 



rest of upper parts brouzed green, becoming pure brouze ou the tail ; gorget 



brilliant emerald green, with strong purple reflections; lower portion of breast and 



abdomen opaque black, more velvety toward the green of throat; sides of body dull 



green ; wing above and below dull purple ; upper and lower wing coverts green ; 



crissum pale brow nishgray ; bill and feet black. Female: tail double-rounded; above 



dark metallic-green, each feather edged with ash, below dull white ; feathers of throat 



and fore part of breast with dull grayish-green centers ; sides green, edged with ash ; 



wing dull purple ; each feather of the tail, except the two central, which are greeu 



throughout, with broad purple band ; three outer tail-feathers broadly tipped with 



dull white, which, on the outer, extends slightly farther up ou the outer web. Leugth, 



4.61 ; wing, 2.43 ; tail, 1.75 ; bill, 1.09. 



Hab. — Mexico ; Arizona (Henshaw). 



A single female of this large and beautiful species was taken at Gamp 

 Grant in 1873, thus giving the bird a place in our fauna ; but no information 

 was obtained of its abundance or the regions it affects. Fully exj^ecting 

 to find the species a summer inhabitant of the mountain districts of Southern 

 Arizona, I was not surprised, when, on reaching Mount Graham, I found 

 the supposition verified. During the first three days of August I secured 



