PICAEIAE— TEOOIIILIDAE— ("?)DORICUA ENICURA. 



381 



Lower mandible reddish flesh-color; tip black. "Tbe young male is lessbrilHantly col- 

 ored, and has the under surface brownish-gray, with a few of the sapphire- bine feathers 

 on the center of the throat." 



Female. — Above, like the male. Beneath, of a uniform vinous-gray. Two central 

 tail feathers bronzy-green. Four outer feathers bronze-green at base, succeeded by a 

 broad, median band of indigo-blue; the three outer tipped with white, the outermost 

 one most conspicuously. 



A young female has the feathers of upper surface tipped with fulvous. 



Hab. — Mexico; Arizona (ETenshaw). 



For the identification of this and the following species we are indebted 

 to Mr. G-. N. Lawrence, who has kindly compared the specimens forwarded 

 to lum, and finds them identical with specimens in his collection from Mex- 

 ico and Guatemala. 



Of this curious rather than beautiful hummingbird, three specimens 

 were secured in the Chiricahua Mountains, at a point a few miles distant 

 from old Camp Crittenden. As the breeding season was entirely passed, I 

 was able to note nothing concerning its habits wdiich served to distinguish 

 it from others of the family, save what appeared to be a constant habit of 

 frequenting the agaves ; and all the specimens taken were shot as they 

 were flying about these peculiar plants, in the neighborhood of which I am 

 confident I saw several others. Great numbers of this species are found in 

 Mexico ; and, as they there inhabit the mountains and table lands, the species 

 doubtless extends in summer through Northern Mexico, and finds in the 

 extreme southern partsof Arizona a suitable climate ; while an abundance 

 of the agave, to which plants it resorts in its more tropical home for at 

 least a great portion of its subsistence, serves as a further attraction. No 

 doubt these hummers are quite numerous in the locality I have referred 

 to earlier in the season, as well as in other similar places. 



No. 



4S2 



493 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



$ ad. 

 S ad. 



Chiricahua Mts., Ariz.. 

 do 



Aug. 23, 1874 

 do 



H. W. Henshaw 

 do 



2.00 



2.00 

 2.02 



1-31 

 '•33 



i-35 



0.S0 

 0.85 

 0.85 











(I)DOUICHA ENICURA, Vieill. 



Slender Shear-tailed Huninier. 



Doricha cnicura, Henshaw, Am. Sportsman, v, Feb. 20, 1S75, 32S. 



Sp. chae. — Male. — Tail excessively lengthened and forked; the outer pair of 



