33 1 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



The tliice species of Caly])te may be distiuguished by the following 

 ell a meters : 



fl'. Wing not less than 1.70; upper tail-coverts and middle tail-feathers bronze-green; 

 outer tail-feather of male much narrower than the next. 

 &'. Tail 1.15 or more (1.30-1.45 in the male) ; adiilt male with gorget and top of head 

 metallic purplish red; adult female dull light brownish gray beneath. Hah. : 

 California, resident, a few migrating to Arizona and northern Mexico in win- 

 ter. C. flHJm (Less.). Annans Humming Bird. (Page 1^3-1.) 

 6^. Tail not more than 1.10 (still shorter in female); adult jHrtie with gorget and 

 top of head metallic violet; adult female with under parts white. Hob.: West- 

 ern Mexico, Arizona, Lower California, and southern California. 



C. cos/ft' (BoURC). Costa's Bummiruj Bird. (Page 337.) 



a*^. Wing not more than 1.15 ;. upper tail-coverts and middle tail feathers metallic 

 blue or greenish-blue; outer tail-feather of male not narrower than the next. 

 Adult male with gorget and top of head metallic purplish red (as in C. anva) ; 

 adult female with anterior half of lower parts pale ash-gray, posterior half 

 white. Hah. : Cuba. C. helence (Gundl.). Prineess Helena's Humming Bird." 



Anna's Humming Bird. Calypte anna {Less.). 



Ornismya anna LESS.,Ois. Monch., 1829, 205, pi. 74. 



Ti-oclnlus anna jARD.,Nat. Libr. Humming B., I, 1833, 93, pi. 6.— Aud., Orn. 



Biog. V, 1839, 438, pi. 425; Synop. 1839, 170; B. Am. IV, 1842, 1-8, pi. 252. 

 Calypie annw Gould, Mon. Trocb., pt. xi, 1856, pi. 5; vol. iii, 1861, pi. 135. — 

 Coop. Orn, Cal. i, 1870, 358.— B. B. and R., Hist. N. Am. B. li, 1874, 454, pi. 

 47, tig. 7. 

 Red-headed Humming Bird. 

 Anna's Calypte (Gould). 



Chupamirto de cabeza y cuello escarlata (D'Oca). 

 Le Calypte d' Anna (Mulsant and Verreaux). 

 Oiseau-Monche Anna (Lesson). 



Eange. — California, resident in warmer portions; performs a partial 

 migration south tbrougb Arizona to table-lands of Mexico; south in 

 Lower California as far as Cerros Island. 



Sp. Char. — Adult male : Entire head (except occiput), including ruff, 

 brilliantly metallic purplish red; length about 3.40-3.75, wing 1.90- 

 2.00, tail 1.30-145, exposed cnlmen 0.65-0.70. Adult female : bronze- 

 green above, including top of head, the latter sometimes dull grayish 

 brown, with little if any metallic gloss ; throat pale gray or grayish 

 white, the feathers with darker central spots, often mixed with spots of 

 metallic crimson; length 3.80-4.15, wing 2.00-2.05, tail 1.15-1.30, 

 exposed culmen 0.70-0.75. 



Adult male (No. 84123, Marin County, California, February 15, 1877 ; 

 C. A. Allen) : Entire head (except occiput), including gorget, with its 

 elongated latero-posterior feathers, forehead, crown, and post ocular 

 region, rich, brilliant, metallic purplish red, or rose-red, with more 

 purplish, and in certain lights somewhat golden or bronzy, reflections; 

 occiput, hind neck, back, scapulars, wing coverts, rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, and middle pair of lail-feathers metallic bronze green ; remiges 



* Orthorhjinchus helenw Gundl. Lemh., Aves dc la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 70, pi. 10, 

 fig. 2.— Calypte helenai Gould, Mon. Troch. iii, pi. 136. 



