I08 BIRDS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. 



FAM. TROCHILID.^. 



HUMMING-BIRDS. 



DO RICH A EVELYN.^. {Bonn.) 

 Bahama Woodstar. 



Local A^a me. — H u m m e r . 



Winter Plumage, Male. — Above, green, showing slight golden 

 reflections on the back, with the tips of the feathers in some speci- 

 mens bluish; head darker; throat, beautiful purple-violet, below 

 which is a band of white ; under parts, green, mixed with rufous, 

 shading into white on the flanks; crissum, pale rufous-white; 

 wings, brownish purple ; tail appearing black, very dark purple in 

 some lights; outer feathers with faint terminal spot of rufous, second 

 with inner web, and third with inner and basal half of outer web 

 cinnamon ; bill and feet, black. 



Winter Plumage, Female. — Purple gorget wanting, and replaced 

 by dull white, with a slight tinge of rufous ; upper parts paler than 

 in the male ; sides, cinnamon, becoming brightest under the wings ; 

 central feathers of the tail, bright green, the rest cinnamon ; an 

 oblique purplish band on the tips of the fourtli feathers. 



Length 3.40, wing 1.70, tail 1.40, tarsus .15, bill .70. 



