BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 593 
without cinnamon-rufous edgings, the white tips also less purely 
white, those of inner rectrices sometimes cinnamomeous; chin and 
throat white, conspicuously spotted with metallic bronze; rest of 
under parts as in the adult male, but sides and flanks more extensively 
and uniformly cinnamon-rufous, and under tail-coverts more or less 
strongly tinged with the same; length (skins), 64~75 (69); wing, 
35.5-38 (86); tail, 19-23 (21.2); exposed culmen, 11.5-13 (12.4).¢ 
“Young male.—Similar to the adult female, but tail, sides, and 
flanks as in adult male (the middle pair of rectrices, however, wholly 
bronze-green or greenish bronze). 
Central and southern Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas (Galindo; 
Realito), Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi (Sierra San Luis Potosi), 
Aguas Calientes (Calvillo), Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Cérdova; Orizaba; San 
Lorenzo; Cuesta de Misantla; Cofre de Perote; San Andrés Tuxtla), 
Mexico (Valley of Mexico), Oaxaca (15 miles west of Oaxaca City; 
Toténtepec), Guerrero (Omilteme; Chilpancingo) and Territory of 
Tepic (Tepic). 
O[rnysmia] heloisa Lesson and Deatrre, Rev. Zool., ii, no. 1, Jan., 1839, 15 
(Jalapa and Codtepec, Vera Cruz, Mexico). 
M[ellisuga] heloisa Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec., 1848, 113. 
T[ryphena] heloisa Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 257. 
Tryphena heloise ScuateR, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 297 (Oaxaca); 1859, 367 
(Jalapa). 
[Trochilus.] 6. Atthis heloisa RetcuenBacu, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 12. 
[Trochilus] heloisa Retcuensacu, Troch. Enum., 1855, 10, pl. 835, figs. 4966~ 
4968.—Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 145, no. 1870. 
Trochilus heloisa AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ Unton, Check List, 1886, no. 435.— 
Herrera, La Naturaleza, (2), i, 1891, 322 (Valley of Mexico). 
T{rochilus] heloisa Ripaway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 315. 
Selasphorus? heloise Goutp, Mon. Troch., pt. viii, Oct., 1854, pl. 2; vol. iii, 1861, 
pl. 141. 
Selasphorus heloise ScuaTER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 288 (Cérdova, Vera 
Cruz); 1859, 386 (Toténtepec, Oaxaca); 1864, 177 (Valley of Mexico); Cat. 
Am. Birds, 1862, 298.—Mutsanvt and VerREavx, Classif. Troch., 1866, 89.— 
Covss, Check List, 1878, no. 281.—D’Oca, La Naturaleza, iii, 1875, 19 
(Jalapa); Troq. de Mex., 1875, pl. (1), fig. 3. 
[Selasphorus] heloise Cours, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 185. 
Selasphorus heloisa D’Oca, Troq. de Mex., 1875, 9. 
Atthis heloise Goutp, Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 89.—RerIcHENBaAcH, Aufz. 
der Colibr., 1854, 12.—Extiot, Hlustr. New and Unfig. Birds N. Am., pt. 
xii, 1868, pl. (vol. i, 1869, pl. 21); Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 113.— 
Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, 361 (‘‘Southern New Mexico;’’ error).—Bovucarp, 
Notes Troch. du Mex., 1875, 7, part (Cérdova, Jalapa, Orizaba, and San 
Andrés Tuxtla, Vera Cruz); Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 12 (Jalapa; San Andrés 
Tuxtla)—Muisant and VERREAUX, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 2, 
1877, 91—Vittapa, La Naturaleza, ii, 1874, 357 (Valley of Mexico).— 
Riveway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 10 (descr.; synon.; crit.); iii, 1880, 
a Hight specimens, 
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