376 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



Mr. R Stephens subsequently found the Circe Humming Bird in 

 the Santa Kita Mountains, where five specimens were obtained and oth- 

 ers seen. They were always found near water, and usually along the 

 streams which flowed through canons, high among the mountains. They 

 seemed to prefer sycamores to other trees, and invariably perched on 

 dead twigs where they could command an open view. Their notes were 

 flat and differed from those of other Hummers.* 



The Santa Catalina Mountains were afterward added to their range 

 by Mr. W. E. D. Scott, who thus records his observations: 



During the spring, summer, and early fall of 1884 this was a rather common 

 species in the Catatina Mountains, from an altitude of 3,500 to 5,000 feet, but in the 

 corresponding season of 1885 the birds were apparently rare. The birds arrive at this 

 point early in April, the 5th of that month being my earliest record, when I took two 

 adult males. They remain throughout the spring and summer, leaving from the 

 middle to that last of September. I took an adult female on June 26, 1884, {that con- 

 tained an unlaid egg with shell nearly formed, so that there can be but little doub^ 

 that the birds breed at this point. Besides, I have the young birds in first plumage 

 from July 1 until late in August, t 



SPECIES WHICH HAVE BEEN WRONGLY ADMITTED TO THE NORTH 

 AMERICAN FALNA, OR WHICH ARE PURELY ACCIDENTAL STRAG- 

 GLERS. 



The following species have been given in works on North American 

 birds, but are properly not entitled to a place in our fauna. One of 

 them (Atthis heloisa), being a bird of eastern Mexico, will doubtless yet 

 be found in southern Texas, but the other two belong to regions far be- 

 yond our limits. 



Genus LAMPORNIS SWAINSON. 



Lampornis SWAINS., Zool. Jour., in. 1827, 358. Type, Trochilus mango LINN. 

 Anthmcothorax BOIE, Isis, 1831, 546. Type, Trochilus nigricollis, VIEILL. 

 Smaragdites BOIE, Isis, 1831, 547. Type, Trochilus dominicus LINN. 

 Floresia REICH., Aufz. Colib., 1853, 11 (subgenus). Type, Trochilus porpliyrurm 



SHAW,=T. mango LINN. 

 Hypopliania REICH., Aufz. Colib., 1853, 11 (subgenus)* Type, Trochihis dominieus 



LINN. 

 Margarochrysis REICH., Aufz. Colib,, 1853, 11. Type, Trochilus aurulentus, Vieill.= 



T. dominicus LINN. 

 Endoxa HEINE, J. f. O., 1863, 179. Type, Trochihie porpliyrnrm SHAW. (Substitute 



for Floresia REICH ! . ) 



GENERIC CHARACTERS. Size large (wing, 2.5C or more); tail large, 

 slightly rounded, double rounded, or emarginate, considerably more 

 than half as long as wing, the feathers broad, with rounded tips, their 

 color mainly chestnut, glossed with purple, or bright purple (blackish 

 green in L. viridis); wing ample, the primaries of normal shape ; bill 

 longer than head, slightly curved, its vertical thickness least through 

 the middle ; nasal opercula partly feathered ; greater part of tarsi 

 naked. 



*Brewster, the Auk., vol. vn, p. 211. 

 tThe Auk, vol. HI, 1886, p. 432. 



