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ohestirat, with a dark terminal spot. Length 3.50; extent 4.75; wing 2.10; tail 1.25; hill 

 0.72. Cape St. Lucas. 

 135. EU'GENES. (Gr. evyevf]^, eugenea,-wA\-\)OT:n.) Fulgent Hummers. Of great size: about 5 

 inches long. Bill much longer than head, not quite straight, flattened and slightly widened at 

 base, subcylindrical in continuity, with lancet-pointed tip. Frontal feathers extending on nasal 

 scale. Tail ample, in $ moderately forked, in 9 double-rounded, all the feathers broad, with 

 rounded ends. Tarsi feathered. A tuft of d(.iwny white at insertion of feet. Outer primary 

 but little narrower or more falcate than the rest. Sexes nearly alike in form, unlike in color. 

 Bill black ; no white on tail of $ . 

 408. E. ful'gens. (Lat. fulgens, glittering. Figs. 301, 302.) Eepulgent Humming-bied. $ : 

 Tail sinuply forked. General body-color shining golden-green aliove and below, duller on belly 

 and crissum, on breast showing opaque black when viewed from before backward. Crown 



glittering metallic vio- 

 let in proper light, 

 opaque black viewed 

 obliquely from behind 

 forward. Gorget glit- 

 tering emerald-green 

 in proper light, opaque 

 greenish-black from 

 the opposite direc 

 Tail like body, but more brassy. Wing-coverts and lining of 

 Large : length about 5.00 ; extent 6.50 ; wing 2.75 ; 



Flu. 301. — Eefulgent Humming-bird, head, 

 nat. size. (Prom Elliot.) 



Pig. 302. —Tail of the same, cf, 

 nat. size. (From Elliot.) 



tion. White marks about eyes, 

 wings like body ; quills dusky-purplish. 



tail 1.75 ; bill over an inch from the feathers on culmen, nearly 1.50 along gape. $ : Upper 

 parts like those of the $ , but crown like back. No emerald gorget, the whole under parts 

 whitish, specked here and there with green, the throat with dusky specks. Wings as in <J, but 

 tail very different; double-rounded, both central and lateral feathers shorter than intennediate 

 ones ; middle feathers brassy-green, others the same in decreasing extent, increasing in blackish 

 towards ends, and squarely tipped with duU white. Smaller: length about 4.50 ; wino- 2.50 ■ 

 tail 1.50 ; bill, however, about as long. Our largest and most magnificent species, lately 

 discovered in Arizona. Texas? 

 ioD. TRO'CHILUS. (Gr. rpuxiKos, trochilos, Lat. trochilus, a runner: a plover 

 Herodotus : by LinnaBQs transferred to Humming-birds.) 

 Gorget Hummers. Bill slender and subulate, not widened 



at base ; frontal feathers covering nasal 



scale. Tail in ^ forked or emarginate, 



with lanceolate feathers; in 9 sim- 

 ply rounded or double-rounded, with 



broader feathers. Outer four primaries 



not peculiar ; but the 1st one strongly 



curved or bowed at end inwards ; inner 



named 



Fig. 303. — Euby 

 throated Humming- 

 bird, 9, tail, nat. size, six abruptly smaller and more linear (in 

 (From Elliot) ^ at least). Tarsi naked. Bill black. 



A metaUic gorget in <J, not prolonged into a ruff; no scales 

 on crown. 9 lacking the gorget ; and tail white-tipped. 

 409. T. co'lubris. (Latinized from the barbarous eolihri. Figs. 



299, 303, 304.) Euby-throated Humming-bird. ^f : ,,, ,„, 



rr„;i f 1 J V J? xu n , "^' 301. — Eaby-throated Hum- 



lail forked, its leathers all narrow and pointed; no scales mlng-Wrd, d', nat. size. (From Elliot.) 



on crown; metallic gorget reflecting ruby-red. Above, golden-green; below, white the .ides 



green; wings and tail dusky-purplish. 9: Lacking the gorget; throat white, specked with 



