BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 589 
blackish; next pair dull bronze-green with terminal third (more or 
less) black, the subbasal portion edged (on both webs), more or less 
distinctly, with cinnamon-buff; next pair similar but with the black 
relatively more extended and with an apical spot (usually small and 
wedge-shaped) of white; next similar but white apical spot larger 
and basal half mostly brownish gray; outermost rectrix like the last 
but only about the basal third grayish and white apical spot still 
larger; auricular region light brownish gray; a dusky triangular 
space in front of eye; chin and throat dull brownish white, usually 
more or less streaked or flecked with dusky or bronzy brownish; 
chest pale grayish cinnamon-buff or dull whitish, the median portion 
of breast and abdomen similar; sides and flanks cinnamon or deep 
cinnamon-buff, the under tail-coverts similar but paler; femoral tufts 
and tuft on each side of rump white; bill, etc., as in adult male; 
length (skins), 69-80 (75); wing, 41-44 (42.8); tail, 19.5-22.5 (21.5); 
exposed culmen, 15-16 (15.6).¢ 
Young male—Apparently not essentially if at all different from 
the adult female but older individuals with some metallic purple 
or purplish red feathers on middle of throat. 
Young female—Similar to the adult female but general color of 
upper parts more decidedly bronzy, with feathers very narrowly 
and indistinctly margined terminally with dull brownish or grayish 
buffy. 
Western United States and British Columbia, south in winter 
over western and central Mexico; north to British Columbia (both 
sides of Cascade range, southern Rocky Mountains, and interior dis- 
tricts), and northern Idaho (Fort Sherman); east to Montana (Belt 
Mountains; Fort Ellis; Bear Creek; McDonald County), Colorado 
(Cheyenne Canyon; near Breckinridge, 9,500 feet; Antonito), New 
Mexico (Inscription Rock; Santa Fé Mountains; Pecos River; Pecos 
Baldy; El Moro; Hondo Canyon), and extreme western Texas (El 
Paso); breeding in mountains, chiefly above 5,000 feet, nearly to 
southern border of United States. Mexican localities: Sinaloa (Los 
Pieles) ; Michoacan (Patzcuaro, October); Guerrero (Amula) ; Mexico 
(near City of Mexico; Ajusco; Tetelco; Cerro de Guadalupe Pedregal) ; 
Aguas Calientes (Calvillo). 
Trochilus (Calothorax) calliope Goutp, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 11 (Mexico; 
coll. J. Gould?). 
C[alothoraz] calliope Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec., 1848, 110. 
[Calothoraz] calliope Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 85.—Gray, Hand-list, i, 
1869, 135, no. 1735. 
Calothoraxz calliope Goutp, Mon. Troch., pt. xv, Sept., 1857; vol. iii, 1861, pl. 
142.—Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 190 (Ft. Tejon, Califor-_ 
nia).—D’Oca, La Naturaleza, iii, 1875, 27 (Valley of Mexico); Troq. de 
Mex., 1875, 18, pl. (3), fig. 10. 
@ Ten specimens, 
