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the fauna of that Territory. This was in August, when the birds were 

 migrating ; in this section it appears wholly absent during summer. 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



491 



495 

 496 



53° 



3S 

 537 



559 

 563 

 564 

 603 

 616 

 624 

 888 

 150 



153 



"57 





Inscription Rock, N. 



Mex. 

 do 



July 24, 1S73 

 . do 



H. W. Henshaw 

 do 



1. So 



i-75 

 '•94 

 1. 60 



1.63 

 1.63 



1.60 

 1.59 

 1.5S 



i-73 

 1.74 

 1.80 

 1.70 



t-3« 



1.25 



1.50 

 1.30 



'•33 

 1.30 



'•32 



1.27 



1-23 



1. 15 



1.25 

 1.2S 

 1.26 



0.6S 



0. 72 

 0. 72 

 °-34 



0.65 

 0.6S 



0.65 

 0.62 

 0.66 

 0.64 

 0. 71 

 0.66 

 o-73 







do 



do 



do 





Mountains near Camp 



Apache, Ariz. 

 Deer Spring, N. Mex.. 

 Mountains near Camp 



Apache, Ariz. 

 do 



do 



do 



July 25, 1873 

 Aug. 5, 1S73 



Aug. 9, 1873 

 do 



Dr. C. G. Newberry .. 

 H. W. Henshaw 



do 





do 



do 





do 



. ... do 



do 





Camp Apache, Ariz .... 

 do 



Aug. 11, 1874 

 Aug. 23, 1S74 

 Aug. 27, 1874 

 Sept. 27, 1S74 

 Aug. 12, 1874 

 do 



do 



do 





do 



do 



do 



9jun. 

 2 ad. 

 $jun. 



Camp Grant, Ariz 



Fort Garland, Colo 



do 



C. E. Aiken 



do 











do 



do 



do 

























SELASPHORUS PLATYCERCUS (Swains 



Broad-tailed Hummingbird. 



Trochilus platycercus, Swains., Phil. Mag., i, 1827, 441 (Mexico). 



Selasphorus platycercus, Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, 135, 922. — Id., U. S. & Mex. Bound. 

 Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1850, Birds, C, pi. v, tigs. 1, 2. — Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1859, 10G (New Mexico).— Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 



I860, 57.— Cooper, Proc. Cal. Acad., 1SC1 , 08.— Id., Birds Cal., i, 1870,357 



Allen, Bui. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 180 (western edge of plains, and 

 mountains of Colorado up to timber line ; Cheyenne, Wyo. ; Ogdeu, Utali). — 

 Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 185.— Hold., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist.. 



1872, 200 (Wyoming).— Bd., Brew., & Ridg., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 402, pi. 

 47, f. 5.— Henshaw, An. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, 1874, 8. — Id, An. 

 List Birds Utab, 1872, Wheelers Exped., 1874, 47.— Id., Rep. Orn. Specs., 



1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 88, 132. — Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 271. 



The Broad-tailed Hummer possesses a wide distribution, and in Utah, 

 Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona is the most common and generally diffused 

 of the family ; being found in the breeding season throughout the mountain 



