185. 
408. 
136. 
409. 
TROCHILID.F — TROCHILIN-E: HUMMING-BIRDS. 461 
chestnut, with a dark terminal spot. Length 3.50; extent £75; wing 2.10; tail 1.25; bill 
0.72. Cape St. Lucas. 
BU GENES. (Gr. et-yerns. eugenes,well-born.) FULGENT HruMers. Of great size: about 5 
inches long. Bill much longer than head. not quite straight, Hattened and slightly widened at 
base, subcylindrical in continuity. with lancet-pointed tip. Frontal feathers extending on nasal 
seale. Tail ample. in J moderately forked. in Q double-rounded, all the feathers broad, with 
rounded ends. Tarsi feathered. A tuft of downy white at insertion of feet. Quter primary 
but little narrower er more faleate than the rest. Sexes nearly alike in form. unlike in color. 
Bill black : no white on tail of J. 
E. fulgens (Lat. fudgens. glittering. Figs. 301,302.) Rervigext Hranoye-pirp. ¢: 
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 vie 
let in proper light. SSS Sar 
ae) opaque black viewed ~ = 
-: obliquely from behind Jae Hh // 
forward. Gorget glit- SAS N\ 
tering emerald-green S=—— ——— 
in proper light.opaque 
Fie. 301. — Refulgent Humming-bird, head, gTeenish-black from — Fie. 32. — Tail of the same. 3. 
nat. size. (From Elliot.) the opposite diree- 2&6 Size .From Elliot.) 
tion, White marks about eres. Tail like body, but more brassy. Wing-coverts and lining of 
wings like bedy : quills dusky-purplish. Large : length about 5.00; extent 6.50; wing 2.75: 
tail 1.75: bill over au inch from the feathers on culmen, nearly 1.50 along gape. 9 : Upper 
parts like those of the 2. 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 different; deuble-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 squarely tipped with dull white. Smaller: length about £50: wing 2.50; 
tail 1.50: bill. however. about as long. Our largest and most magnificent species. lately 
discovered in Arizona. Texas? 
TRO'CHILUS. (Gr. tp¢,Aos, trochilos, Lat. trochilus, a runner: a plover so named by 
Herodotus: by Linneus transferred to Humming-birds.) 
Gorcet Huueers. Bill slender and subulate. not widened 
at base: frontal feathers covering nasal a 
seale. Tailin ¢ forked or emarginate, 
with lanceolate feathers: in 9 sim- 
ply reundsi or doubdle-rounded, with 
broader feathers. Outer four primaries 
net peouliar: but the Ist one strongly 
eurved or bowed at end inwanls: inner 
bind, $. tail, nat. sie, six abruptly smaller and more linear (in 
sErus Bibs) @ atleasi). Tarsi naked. Bill black. 
A metallic gorget in ¢, not prolonged inte a ruff; ne seales 
onerown. @ lacking the corget; and tail white-tipped. 
T. co'lubris. (Latinized from the barbarous cvlibri. Figs. 
299, 303, 304.) ReuBy-THROATED Hramoye-BIRD. =: Re. wy. = Ran peheoatel Hats 
Tail forked, its feathers all narrow and pointed: no scales ming-bind, 7. nat. size. From Ellior) 
_ on crown: metallie gorget reflecting ruby-red. Above, golden-green: below. white. the sides 
green; wings and tail dasky-purplish. 2: Lacking the gorget; throat white, specked with 
