THE HUMMING BIRDS. 559 



LUCIFEH HUMMING BIRD. Calothorax lucifer (SWAINS.). 

 (Plate XLII.) 



Cynantkus lucifer SWAINS., Philos. Mag., i, 1827, 442. 



Calothorax lucifer GRAY, Gen. B., i, 1848, 110. LAWR., Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, n, 



1877, 108 (Camp Bowie, Ariz.). 

 Ornismya cyanopogon LESS., Ois.-Mouch., 1829, 50, pi. 5. 



Calothorax cyanopogon GRAY, Geu. B., i, 13. GOULD, Mon. Troch., pt.-xiv, 1857, 



pi. 1 ; vol. in, 1861, pi. 143. 

 Doriclia enicura (error) HEXSIT., Am. Sportsm., v, Fob. 20, 1875, 328 (Camp Bowie, 



Ariz.) ; Zool. Wheeler's Exp. 1875, 381. 

 Mexican Star (GOULD). 



Le Calothorax Barbe-Bleue (MULSANT and VERREAUX). 

 Chupamirto morado grande (D'OcA). 

 Oiseau-Mouche Barbe-Bleue (PREVOST). 



RANGE. Table-lands of Mexico, north to southern Arizona. 



SP. CHAR. Adult male with the gorget rich metallic violet, varying 

 to purplish blue; upper parts metallic bronze-green, the three outer 

 tail-feathers purplish black, the outermost one excessively narrow; 

 chest buffy white, belly and under tail-coverts purer white ; sides and 

 flanks dull greenish bronze, tinged with rusty; length, about 3.40- 

 3.80; wing, 1.40-1.60; tail, 1.20-1.35 (forked for nearly half its length); 

 exposed culmen, 0.75-0.90; the bill strongly curved. Adult female 

 bronze-green above, including middle pair of tail-feathers; three outer 

 tail-feathers light cinnamon-rufous for about the basal half, then black, 

 the tips broadly white; post-ocular stripe, sides of neck, chin, throat, 

 malar region, sides. and flanks pale cinnamon-buff; belly white; length 

 (skin), about 3.30; wing, 1.65-1.80; tail, 1.20-1.25; exposed cuhnen, 

 0.75-0.90. 



Adult male (No. 97727, Tupataro, Mexico; Prof. A. Duges): Above, 

 metallic bronze-green, duller on top of head, more decidedly bronzy on 

 rump and upper tail-coverts; remiges dull dusky slate, faintly glossed 

 with purplish ; four middle tail-feathers metallic green (scarcely bronzy), 

 the other tail-feathers purplish dusky, some of them tinged at tips 

 with metallic green, others minutely tipped with white. Gorget rich 

 metallic magenta-purple, changing to violet in certain lights; chest 

 dull white, tinged laterally and posteriorly with pale rusty; middle 

 line of belly whitish, sides and flanks metallic bronze-green, tinged 

 with rusty; under tail-coverts white, some of the feathers faintly 

 bronzy-grayish at base; bill and feet black. Length (skin), 3.80; wing, 

 1.50; tail, 1.20, the middle feathers 0.50 shorter; exposed culmen, 0.85. 



Adult female (No. 35170, Mifador, Mexico ; Dr. C. Sartorius) : Above, 

 metallic golden green, much duller on top of head, the middle tail- 

 feathers nearly pure green ; remiges dull brownish slate or dusky, very 

 faintly glossed with purplish ; tail-feathers next to middle pair chiefly 

 metallic green, the terminal portion black, shaft of the green portion 

 pale rufous, and outer web broadly edged toward base with cinnamon- 

 rufous ; next feather with more than the basal half of both webs, includ- 



