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SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —PICABI2E— CYPSELIFOBMES. 



Calothorax lucifer 

 . Eugenes fulgens 



Calypte anncR 

 Calypte costtB 



418 

 408 



414 

 415 



. Stetlula calliope 417 



If a female or young, he must refer to the detailed descriptioBS. He will be much assisted by 

 the figures of generic details, drawn from nature by Mr. K. Kidgway for Mr. D. Gr. Elliot's 

 monograph, and kindly loaned to me by Prof. Baird. 



Analysis of Genera and Species ofN. A. Trochitidte {adult males). 

 Frontal feathers not fully oovering nasal scale. Tarsi feathered. Tail emarginate. Bill broad, in part 

 flesh-colored. 

 Nasal scale entirely naked. 



White stripe on head. Crown, face, and chin, black. Tail rufous .... Basiliniia xantusi 407 

 Nasal scale partly naked. 



Crown green; throat blue; tail blackish lache latirostris 421 



Throat green; tail rufous; sides rufous .... AmazUia cerviniventris 420 



Throat green j tail rufous ; sides green Amaziliafascoca^idata 419 



Frontal feathers covering nasal scale. 

 Bill not perfectly straight. 



Bill curved throughout. Tail forked, with almost filiform lateral feather 

 Bill nearly straight. Length over 4 inches. Throat and breast green . 

 Bill perfectly straight. Length under 4 inches. 

 Crown as well as throat with metallic scales. 



Scales lilac-crimson. Lateral tail-feather parallel-edged . . . . 

 Scales violet. Lateral tail-feather acutely falcate , .... 



Crown simply glossy, like back ; throat with metallic scales. 

 Middle tail-feathers unlike baok in color. 



Scales confined to ends of throat- feathers, their bases snow-white 

 Middle tall-feathers like back in color ; throat-scales iorming a continuous surface. 



Lateral tail-feathers white-tipped ; none acuminate. Outer primary abruptly emarginate 



and acute Atthis li^loisce 416 



Lateral tail-feathers not whit&-tipped ; some or all acuminate. 

 Throat-scales coppery-red ; back and tail greenish ; outer two primaries acute, falcate : 



all the tail-feathers acuminate, the two outer acicnlar ... . SelaspJiorus alteni 412 

 Throat-scales coppery-red; back and tail mostly chestnut; primaries as in S. rufus; 



next to middle tail-feather abruptly notched Selaspkorus rufus 411 



Throat-scales lilac-red; back golden-green; 1st primary emarginate, turned outward, 



next obliquely incised at end Selasphorus platycercus 41^ 



Throat-scales opaque black, becoming violet posteriorly ; back golden-green ; primaries 



not peculiar ^ Trochilus alexandri 410 



Throat-scales ruby-red ; back golden-green. Primaries not peculiar (Eastern) 



Trochilus colubris 409 



134. BASILIN/NA. (Gr. ^a(TiKivva, hasilinna, a queen.) Queen Hummeks. Head appearing 

 more globose than in any other JJ. Am. genus, in consequence of the non-extension of the 



feathers on base of upper mandible, where they do not reach 

 opposite those on chin, leaving the turgid nasal scale entirely 

 exposed. Bill broad at base, tapering regularly to tip, with dis- 

 tinct supra-nasal grooves ; scarcely longer than head, straight. 

 Tarsi feathered. Tail ample, all the feathers broad and 

 rounded; nearly even, in ,J a little double-rounded by short- 

 ness of both lateral and central pair of feathers, in ? simply a 

 little rounded. No peculiarity of primaries. Sexes nearly alike ' 

 in form ; 9 lacking the green gorget of $ ; bill in both sexes 

 largely flesh-colored ; $ with white stripe on head ; no white 

 on tail of either sex. (N. B. This genus would be better 

 ranged next after lache.") 

 407. B. xan'tusi. (To L. J. Xantus de Vesey. Fig. 300.) Xantus Humming-bird. Adult $ : 

 Above, and the throat, metallic grass-green ; below, cinnamon-rufous ; face blue-black ; a 

 white stripe through the eye ; wings purplish-dusky ; tail purplish-chestnut, the central feathers 

 glossed with goldep-green ; bill flesh-colored, black-tipped. 9 : Shining green above, including 

 central tail-feathers ; below, and the face, pale rufous, whitening about the vent, and the sides 

 greenish ; head-stripe rufous, whitening on the auriculars ; tail-feathers, except the centraj. 



Fig. 300. — Xantus Humming- 

 bird, nat. size. (From Elliot.) 



