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c'. Middle tail-featliers edged with riifoas; outer primary not attenuated at tip. 



clK Middle tail-feathers purplish bhick with little or no metallic green, this, 



if present, on outer web only and not extending nearly to the shaft. 



(Gorget metallic "pomegranate-purple," uot very brilliant.) Hab. Ve- 



ragnaand Costa Rica. S.ardens Salv. Blazing Humming Bird.* 



d-. Middle tail-feathers, metallic green, the inner web (only) sometimes partly 



purplish black. 



e'. Gorget dull " heliotrope-purple," or dull grayish purple, with silvery or 



even greenish rellections. Hab. Veragua. * 



S. torridus Salv. Parched Humming BirdA 

 e^. Gorgel dull lilac-purple or wine-purple. Hab. Costa Rica and Veragua. 



S.flammula Salv. Flaming Humming Bird.t 

 c^. Middle tail-fe£ithers metallic green, without rufous edgings ; outer primary at- 

 tenuated and curved outward at tip ; wing, 1.85 or more. (Gorget rose- 

 purple or solferino.) Hab. Rocky Mountain district, south to Guatemala. 

 S. jilatijcercHs (Swains.) Broad-tailed Humming Bird. (Page 350.) 



females. 



a\ Outer tail-feathers tipped with white. 

 ¥. Wing not less than 1.65. 

 c2. Wing more than 1.90 (2.00-2.10), middle tail feathers without any rufous, and. 

 next feather with merely a slight edging of this color if any. 



S.platijcercus. 

 c2. Wing less than 1. 90 ; middle tail-feathers with more or less of rufous on basal 

 portion, the next feather with basal half or more rufous. 

 d\ Outer tail-feather about .15 wide across middle of black space; wing 1.75- 



1-80. s. rufus. 



d^. Outer tail-feather only .10 wide across middle of black space; wing 1.65- 

 1-70. S. alleni. 



¥. Wing less than 1.65. , s. torridus. 



rt^. Outer tail-feathers tipped with light cinnamon-rufous or ochraceous buff. 

 bK Middle tail-feathers margined on both webs with cinnamon-rufous; outer tail- 

 feathers wirh both webs rufous at base, 

 c'. All the tail-feathers except middle pair cinnamon-rufous across both webs at 

 base. s. scintilla, 



c''. Only three outer tail-feathers cinnamon-rufous across both webs at base. 



S. ardens. 



&2. Middle tail-feather with only the outer web margined with cinnamon-rufous; 



outer tail-feather with only the inner web rufous at base. S. ftammula. 



Flouksi's Humming Bird. Selasphoms ruhromitratus Ridgw. 

 (Plate xxxviii, Fig. 1.) 



Selasphorus florcsii Gould, Mon. Troch. pt. xxiii, Sept. 1, 1361, pi. 10; vol. iii, 1861, 

 pi. 1.39 {nee Trochilus floresii BouRC, Rev. Zool. 1846, 316).— Bryant, Forest 

 and Stream, xxvi. No. 22, July 24, 1888, 426 (San Francisco, Cal.). 

 Trochilus florcsii GYiAY, Hand., 1. i, 1869, 144 (Subgen. Stlasphorus).—RiDGW.-'Msin. 

 N. Am. B. 1887, 315.— A. O. U., Abridged Check List, 1889, No. 431.1. 



Trochilusruhromitratasa,ud Selas2)horus ruhromitratus, RiDG\y.,Auk.viu, Jan., 1891, 114. 



Le S61asphore de Floresi (Mulsant and Verreaux). 



Chupamirto de corona y pecho escarlata (D'Oca). 



Floresi's Flame-bearer (Gould). 



* Selasjyhorus ardens Salv., P. Z. S. 1870, 209. 

 ^Selasphorus torridus Salv., P. Z. S. 1870, 208. 

 t Sela><phorus flammula Salv., P. Z. S. 1864,586. 



