TROCHILIDJE. 



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broad; bill long, stout, and straight, nearly as 

 long as tail ; outer tail-feathers tipped with white 



in both sexes Floricola. 1 



g\ "Wing less than 2.00 (1.30-1.70) ; tail forked in males, 

 double-rounded in females ; bill slender, distinctly 

 curved (except in two or three species of Doricha) ; 

 outer tail-feathers tipped with white only in fe- 

 males ; wing about 1.30-1.70. 

 A 1 . Tail shorter than wing or exposed culmen, the 

 feathers pointed in adult males. 



Calothorax. (Page 316.) J 

 A 2 . Tail longer than wing, or else longer than ex- 

 posed culmen, the feathers not pointed in 



either sex Doricha. 3 



f- Exposed culmen less than half as long as wing. 



g 1 . Tail 2.25, or more, rounded, feathers very broad, the 

 three outermost broadly tipped with white in both 

 sexes; shafts of three outer quills very strong, 

 often enormously thickened; wing 2.90-3.20; 

 adult male (of the Mexican species) with head, 

 neck, and lower parts rich metallic violet or 

 violet-blue, the female gray beneath, with blue 



throat Campylopterus.* 



g\ Tail less than 2.25. 



h l . Tail more than three-fourths as long as wing, 



forked for more than one-fourth its length, 



the feathers broad and rounded at tips ; adult 



males wholly bright green beneath, the tail 



blue-black, or bronze-black. 



i 1 . Middle tail-feathers blue-black, like the rest 



(tipped with dull grayish in Mexican 



species) ; females and young males with 



outer tail-feathers grayish white, or pale 



1 Floricola Elliot, Class. & Synop. Troch. Sept. 1878, 82. Type, TrocMlua longirostris Vieill. (Two 

 species inhabiting pine forests of Mexican highlands, another in Guatemala, two or three others in mountains 

 of northern South America.) 



2 As a subgenus of Trochilus, in accordance with the A. O. TJ. Check List, but in reality a very distinct 

 genus. 



3 Doricha Reich., Aufz. der Colib. 1853, 12. Type, Trochilus enicurus Vieill. (One Mexican, one Guate- 

 malan, and two Bahaman species.) 



4 Campylopterus Swains., Zool. Jour. 1826, 328. Type, Trochilus largipennis Bodd. (One Mexican species, 

 — a splendid bird, — one peculiar to Guatemala, and several in northern South Amerioa. The first, C. hemileu- 

 curus (Licht.), is the largest hummingbird found north of the Isthmus of Panama, being nearly six inches in 

 length. It is Yery possibly the species to which Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, U.S.A., refers in a letter dated June 9 , 

 1886, as having been seen by him the day before, near Fort Wingate, New Mexico, and which he described as 

 being " fully large enough for Eugenes fulgens, and whirred like an old quail." 



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