228 LIFE niSTOllIES OF i^OETH AMEEICAN BIRDS, 



j)horus platyccrcus and many Eugenes fulgens and CccUgcna clemencice were seen 

 daily about the clumps. Early on the morninj^ of June 9, in company with 

 Mr. Fred. Ilall Fowler, the writer saw a female Basilinna leucotts sitting- on a 

 dead twig' of a Loniccra bush, close to the ground, warming itsett" in the rays of 

 the rising sun. The white stripe on the side of tlie liead \\ns plainly visible, 

 and led to its speedy capture. Subsequently others were looked for, but none 

 were seen."' 



Messrs. Salvin and Godman say: "This is one of the commonest and most 

 characteristic of the Hummingbirds of the highlands of Mexico nnd Giiatemala, 

 its range extending from the States of Sonora and Tamaulipas to the uplands of 

 Nicaragua, birds from these widely separated districts presenting no appreciable 

 difference. Its range in altitude is considerable. It does not occur much below 

 4,000 feet above sea level, and thence reaches as Ingli as 7,000 or 8,000 feet. 

 (3n the slopes of the Volcan de Fuego we used to find it not unconnnonly in 

 open glades of the oak forests, where it took its food from any plants that 

 happened to be in flower. Of the breeding habits of this species we have no 

 account, but a three parts grown bird from Sierra de Victoria was shot l)y Mr. 

 Richardson in Ajiril; so that the nesting time in that district would commence in 

 ]\Iarch or the end of February. But the nesting season probably extends over a 

 ct)nsideraljle period, for De Oca says he once found a nest in December, though 

 the usual nesting time in the Valley of Mexico, Avhere the bird is more common 

 than at Jalapa, is in July and August, According to Villada it feeds from the 

 flowers of Cacti and Agave, and also from those of Jjouvardia and Salvia." 



I have Ijeen unable to find a detailed description of the nest and eggs of 

 this species, and there are no specimens in the United States National Museum 

 collection. 



83. lache latirostris (Swainson). 



BROAD-BILLED HUMMINGBIRD. 



Cynantlius latirostris SwAiNSON, Philosophical Magazine, 1827, 441. 



lache latirostris Elliott, Classificatiou and Synopsis of the Trochilidii", March, 1879, 235. 



(B — , C — , R 348, C 421, U 441.) 



GEOGRAPniOAL RANGE: Monntains of southern Arizona and southwestern ISTew 

 Mexico; south to the Valley of Mexico and ]Mielioaean, Mexico. 



The Broad-liilled or Circe Hunnningbird appears to be a m<:)derately com- 

 mon smnmer resident in suitable localities in southern Arizona and southwestern 

 New Mexico, at altitudes from 3,500 to 5,()(»0 feet. It was iirst added to our 

 fauna l)y Mr. H. W. HenshaAv, wlio took two adult males in the Santa Kita 

 IMountains, a few miles from old Cami) Crittenden, Arizona, on August '23, 1S74. 

 Since then it has also been taken by Mr. F. Ste])hens in the same locality, where 

 he secured five specimens, which ai-e now in Mr. William Brewster's collection. 



' The Anlc, Vol. XI, 1894, p. 32.=>-326. 



-Biologia Centrali Americana, Aves, Vol. II, .July, IS'Jl', pp. 313, 314. 



