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Fi(t. 301. ' Kefulgent Humming-bird. head, 

 nat. size. (From Elliot.) 



Fig. 302. — Tail of the same, (f, 

 nat. size. (From Elliot.) 



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

 0.72. Cape St. Lucas. 

 l3o. EU'GBNES. (Gr. ciyfK^s, eiejfewes, well-born.) 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 downy 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. Pigs. 301, 302.) Refulgent Humming-bird. ^ : 

 Tail simply forked. General body-color shining golden-green above 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- 

 tion. White marks about eyes. Tail like body, but more brassy. Wing-coverts and lining of 

 wings like body ; quills dusky-purplish. Large : length about 5.00 ; extent 6.50 ; wing 2.75 : 

 tail 1.75 ; biE over an inch from the feathers on culmen, nearly 1.50 along gape. 9 '■ 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 ^, but 

 tail very difierent; double-rounded, both central and lateral feathers shorter than intermediate 

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

 towards ends, and squai-ely tipped with dull white. Smaller : length about 4.50 ; wing 2.50 j 

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

 discovered in Arizona. Texas 1 

 136. TRO'CHIIiUS. (Gr. rpoxO^os, trochilos, Lat. trochilus, a runner: a plover so named by 

 Herodotus : by Linnseus 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 

 six abruptly smaller and more linear (in 

 (J at least). Tarsi naked. Bill black. 

 A metallic 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 eoUbri. Figs. 

 299, 303, 304.) Euby-throatbd Humming-bird. ^ : 

 Tail forked, its feathers all narrow and pointed ;• no scales 

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

 green; wings and tail dusky-purpUsh. 9 '• Lacking the gorget; throat white, specked with 



Fig. 303. — Euby- 

 throated Humming- 

 bird, $, tail, nat. size. 

 (From Elliot) 



Fig. 304. — Euby-throated Hum- 

 ming-bird, tf, nat. size. (From Elliot.) 



