344 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



Nootka Sound Hummin/r Bird. 



Riift-neoked Huiumiuo; Bird (Latham, Audubon). 



Rnff-iiecked Honey sncker (Pknnant). 



Cinnamon, or Nootka Humming Bird (Swaiksox). 



Rufous-backed Hnmming Bird. 



Rufous Flame-bearer (GorLD). ' 



Le St^laspbore sasin (Mulsant and Verreaux). 



Cbupamirto pecbo dorado (D'Oca). 



Eange. — Western North America, breeding from the higher mouu- 

 tains of southern California northward, near the coast, to Nootka 

 Sound, Ahiska; during migrations, -east to Montana, Colorado, New 

 Mexico, and western Texas ; wintering on table-lands of Mexico. 



Sp. Char. — Adult male with the upper parts, except top of head and 

 wing-coverts, deep cinnamon-rufous or brick-color, the back sometimes 

 washed witlj green but never continuously of this color; top of head 

 dull bronze or bronzy green; gorget intensely brilliant metallic scarlet, 

 changing to golden in certain lights; chest white, the remaining under 

 parts light cinnamon-rufous, paler along median line. Tail-feather next 

 to middle pair with a notch near end of inner web, the outer web sinu- 

 ated near tip; outer tail-feather more than 0.10 of an inch wide; 

 length, about 3.25-3.70; wing, 1.50-1.60; tail, 1.30-1.35; exposed cul- 

 men, 0.00-0.65. Adu'.t female, bronze-green above ; all the tail-feathers, 

 including middle pair, cinnamourufons basally, the three outer broadly 

 tipped with white and crossed by a broad subterminal band of black ; 

 terminal or subterminal portion of fourth feather also black, the white 

 tip, if present, very small ; outer feather more than 0.10 of an inch 

 wide; chin, throat, chest, and median i)ortion of breast white, other 

 lower parts pale cinnamon-rufous ; throat usually spotted with metallic 

 scarlet or golden red, often with a considerable patch of this color; 

 length, about 3.50-3.90; wing, 1.75-1.80; tail, 1.12-1.30; exposed cul- 

 meu, 0.65-0.72. 



Adult )nale (No. 2896, Columbia River, Oregon, May, 1835; J. K. 

 Townsend): Forehead and crown dull bronze, without greenish tinge ; 

 wing-coverts greenish bronze; remiges ilusky, or dull brownish slate, 

 very faintly glossed with purplish ; rest of upper parts uniform deep 

 cinnamon-rufous, without a trace of green; rectrices with a broad 

 median streak of purplish dusky on the terminal portion (this streak 

 about .45 of an inch long on middle feathers), but on two outer feathers 

 this dusky color confined to outer webs. A small white spot immediately 

 behind eye. Lores, suborbital region, and earcoverts light cinnamon- 

 rufous. Chin and entire throat, including the elongated posterolateral 

 feathers or "ruff," intensely brilliant metallic scarlet, more purplish, or 

 ruby, red in some lights, golden red in others; chest white ; rest of 

 lower parts light cinnamon rufous, deeper on sides and flanks; downy 

 tufts between rump and flanks white, tinged with rufous. Bill and feet 

 black. Length (skin), 3.40; wing, 1.50; tail, 1.20, lateral feathers, 0.30 

 shorter; exposed culraen, 0.02- 



