610 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
tail-coverts and tail deep cinnamon-rufous, the rectrices with a ter- 
minal, more or less fusiform, streak of purplish black or dusky, the 
lateral ones with this dusky confined mostly to outer web; remiges 
dark brownish slate or dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; loral, 
orbital, auricular, and postocular regions deep cinnamon-rufous, this 
sometimes extending, brokenly, across nape; chin and throat bril- 
liant metallic scarlet or orange-red, changing in position b to golden 
and greenish, the latero-posterior feathers of the gorget elongated; 
chest white, passing gradually into pale cinnamon-rufous or cinnamon- 
buff on breast and abdomen, this into deep cinnamon-rufous on sides 
and flanks; femoral tufts white; under tail-coverts cinnamon-rufous, 
paler basally; bill dull black; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length 
(skins), 82-90 (86); wing, 36.5-38.5 (37.8); tail, 25-26.5 (25.6); 
exposed culmen, 15-16.5 (15.9).¢ 
Adult female—Above metallic bronze-green, the upper tail-coverts 
with basal portion light cinnamon-rufous (partly exposed); middle 
pair of rectrices with basal half (laterally, at least) cinnamon-rufous, 
the terminal half (more or less) metallic bronze-green; next pair 
similar, but terminal portion (extensively) black, the tip of inner web 
sometimes with a small spot of white; three outer rectrices (on each 
side) broadly tipped with white, crossed by a broad subterminal area 
of black, the basal portion cinnamon or dull ight cinnamon-rufous, 
this separated from the subterminal black (at least on third rectrix) 
by more or less of metallic greenish; remiges dark brownish slate or 
dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; under parts dull white (some- 
times slightly tinged with pale cinnamon-buffy), passing into light 
cinnamon-rufous on sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts, the throat 
usually spotted, more or less, with metallic orange-red or scarlet; 
bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 78-90 (85); wing, 41-42 
(41.6); tail, 23-26 (24.7); exposed culmen, 17-18.5 (17.8).° 
Young male.—Similar to the adult female, but upper tail-coverts 
mostly (sometimes wholly) cinnamon-rufous, rectrices more exten- 
sively cinnamon-rufous, and throat strongly tinged with cinnamon- 
rufous and spotted or speckled with dark bronzy. 
Pacific coast district of California and southern British Columbia 
(158-mile House, Caribou District; east side of Cascade range and 
southern Rocky Mountain district), eastward through southern Cali- 
fornia to southern Arizona (Bisbee; Santa Catalina Mountains; 
Huachuca Mountains), and to northern Lower California (Pifion, 
San Pedro Martir Mountains); breeding, locally Gm Upper Sonoran 
and Transition zones), nearly throughout its range, as well as on 
Santa Barbara Islands (San Clemente; Santa Catalina; Santa Cruz); 
in migration extending to Los Coronados Islands, Lower California, 
@ Ten specimens, b Nine specimens, 
