35. 
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TROCHILIDA — TROCHILINA:: HUMMING-BIRDS. 461 
chestnut, with a dark terminal spot. Length 3.50; extent 4.75 ; wing 2.10; tail 1.25; bill 
0.72. Cape St. Lucas. 
EU/GENES. (Gr. evyevjs, eugenes,well-born.) FuLGent Hummers. Of great size: about 5 
inches long. Bill much longer than head, not quite straight, flattened and slightly widened at 
base, subeylindrical in continuity, with lancet-pointed tip. Frontal feathers extending on nasal 
scale. Tail ample, in @ moderately forked, in 9 double-rounded, all the feathers broad, with 
rounded ends. Tarsi feathered. <A tuft of downy white at insertion of feet. Outer primary 
but little narrower or more faleate than the rest. Sexes nearly alike in form, unlike in color. 
Bill black ; no white on tail of @. 
E. ful’gens. (Lat. fulgens, glittering. Figs. 301, 302.) RerruLGent HUMMING-BIRD. @: 
Tail simply forked. General body-color shining golden-green above and below, duller on belly 
and crissum, on breast showing opaque black when viewed from before backward. Crown 
glittering metallic vio- 
let in proper light, ~-\—== 
oe opaque black viewed —— : 
4 obliquely from behind ) BS : Wy 
forward. Gorget glit- >> eos \ 
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in proper light, opaque 
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Fic. 301. — Refulgent Humming-bird. head, greenish-black from Fic. 302. — Tail of the same, ¢, 
nat. size. (From Elliot.) the opposite direc- nat. size. (From Elliot.) 
tion. White marks about eyes. Tail like body, but more brassy. Wing-coverts and lining of 
wings like body ; quills dusky-purplish. Large: length about 5.00; extent 6.50; wing 2.75: 
tail 1.75 ; bill over an inch from the feathers on culmen, nearly 1.50 along gape. 9 : Upper 
parts like those of the ¢, but crown like back. No emerald gorget, the whole under parts 
whitish, specked here and there with green, the throat with dusky specks. Wings as in @, but 
tail very different; double-rounded, both central and lateral feathers shorter than intermediate 
ones; middle feathers brassy-green, others the same in decreasing extent, increasing in blackish 
towards ends, and squarely tipped with dull white. Smaller: length about 4.50; wing 2.50; 
tail 1.50; bill, however, about as long. Our largest and most magnificent species, lately 
discovered in Arizona. Texas? 
TRO'CHILUS. (Gr. tpoxidos, trochilos, Lat. trochilus, a runner: a plover so named by 
Herodotus: by Linnzus transferred to Humming-birds.) 
GorGEeT Hummers. Bill slender and subulate, not widened 
at base; frontal feathers covering nasal 
seale. Tailin ¢ forked or emarginate, 
with lanceolate feathers; in Q sim- 
ply rounded or double-rounded, with 
broader feathers. Outer four primaries 
not peculiar; but the lst one strongly 
eurved or bowed at end inwards; inner 
Fie. 303. — Ruby- 
throated Humming- | ; ; 
bird, 9, tail, nat. size. six abruptly smaller and more linear (in 
eons EMtbe:) g atleast). Tarsi naked. Bill black. 
A metallic gorget in @, not prolonged into a ruff; no scales 
on crown. lacking the gorget ; and tail white-tipped. 
T. co/lubris. (Hatinized from the barbarous colibri. Figs. 
299, 303, 304.) RuBY-THROATED HUMMING-BIRD. ¢: Hig. 304. —S Ruby-throated Bune 
Tail forked, its feathers all narrow and pointed; no scales Ming-bird, ¢, nat. size. (From Elliot.) 
on crown; metallic gorget reflecting ruby-red. Above, golden-green; below, white, the sides 
green; wings and tail dusky-purplish. 9: Lacking the gorget; throat white, specked with 
