344 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



Nootka Sound Humming Bird. 



Ruff-necked Humming Bird (LATHAM, AUDUBON). 



Ruff-necked Honey-sucker (PENNANT). 



Cinnamon, or Nootka Humming Bird (SwAiNSON). 



Rufous-backed Humming Bird. 



Rufous Flame-bearer (GOULD). 



Le S<51asphore sasin (MULSANT and VERREAUX). 



Chupamirto pecho dorado (D'OCA). 



RA.NGE. Western North America, breeding from the higher moun- 

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

 Sound, Alaska; 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 with 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 medfan 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, 0.60-0.65. AduHfetnale, bronze-green above ; all the tail-feathers, 

 including middle pair, cinnamon-rufous basally, the three outer broadly 

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

 terminal or subtermiual 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 portion 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- 

 men, 0.65-0.72. 



Adult male (No. 2896, Columbia Eiver, Oregon, May, 1835; J. K. 

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

 wing-coverts greenish bronze; remiges dusky, 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 ear-coverts light cinnamon- 

 rufous. Chin and entire throat, including the elongated postero-lateral 

 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 culmen, 0.62. 



