PICAKIAE— TKOCHILIDAE— EUGENES FOXGENS. 



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No. 



347 



126 



127 



12S 



128A 



128B 



157 



■59 



492 



543 

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 540 

 568 

 649 

 9' 

 «73 



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Locality. 



Fort Garland, Colo 



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Inscription Rock, N. 



Mex. 

 White Mountains, Ariz. 



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Camp Apache, Ariz.. .. 

 White Mountains, Ariz. 



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Camp Apache, Ariz . . . 

 Camp Grant, Ariz 



Date. 



May 14, 1S73 

 May 2 S , 1S73 



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May 27, 1S73 

 May 2S, 1873 



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July 24, 1S73 



Aug. S, 1S74 

 Aug. 9, 1S74 



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Aug. 12, 1S74 

 Aug. 28, 1S74 

 Sept. — , 1874 

 Sept. 26, 1S74 



Collector. 



H. W. Henshaw I 1.96 



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IT. W. Henshaw 1 I. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



1.96 



1.4S 



1-97 



1-44 



1.9S 



1-45 



1.90 



1.50 



1-97 



1.44 



1-93 



1.40 



1. 88 



1.50 



1.90 



1.36 



2.02 



1.38 



1.95 



'•33 



1.90 



1. 48 



1. 91 



'.38 



1.95 



1.3S 



1 1.90 



i-33 



i.SS 



1.36 



1.9S 



1.42 



Bill. 



o. 72 

 0.44 

 0.65 

 0.65 

 0.65 

 0.6S 

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 0.64 

 o. 76 



0.71 



o-73 

 0.71 

 0.64 

 0.64 

 0.75 

 0.67 



Tarsus. 



EUGENES FDLGENS (Swains.). 



Refulgent Hummingbird. 



Eugenes fulgens, Henshaw, Am. Nat., April, 1874, 241. — Id., Rep. Orn. Specs., 1S73, 



AVheeler's Exped., 1874, 132.— Coues, Check-List, 1874, app., 131.— (?) Id.. 



Birds Northwest, 1874, 271 (in test). 



Sp. char. — Male: tail rather deeply emarginated ; head above violet purple? 



rest of upper parts bronzed green, becoiniug pure bronze on the tail ; gorget 



brilliant emerald green, with, strong purple reflections; lower portion of breast and 



abdomen opaque black, more velvety toward the green of throat ; sides of body dull 



green ; wing above and below dull purple ; upper and lower wing coverts green ; 



crissum pale brownish-gray ; bill and feet black. Female : tail double-rounded; above 



dark metallic-green, each feather edged with ash, below dull white ; feathers of throat 



and fore part of breast with dull grayish-green centers ; sides green, edged with ash ; 



wing dull purple ; each feather of the tail, except the two central, which are green 



throughout, with broad purple baud ; three outer tail-feathers broadly tipped with 



dull white, which, on the outer, extends slightly farther up ou the outer web. Length, 



4.61 ; wing, 2.43 ; tail, 1.75 ; bill, 1.09. 



Hab. — Mexico ; Arizona (Henshaw). 



A single female of this large and beautiful species was taken at Camp 

 Grant in 1873, thus giving the bird a place in our fauna ; but no information 

 was obtained of its abundance or the regions it affects. Fully expecting 

 to find the species a summer inhabitant of the mountain districts of Southern 

 Arizona, I was not surprised, when, on reaching Mount GVaham, I found 

 the supposition verified. During the first three days of August I secured 



