612 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
1909, 208 (Los Coronados Islands, April, common).—Kernrmopz, Prov. Mus. 
1909, 52 (‘‘eastern Cascades and Rocky Mts.,’’ Brit. Columbia). 
S[elasphorus] alleni Cours, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 463.—Harrert, 
Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 205. 
[Selasphorus] allenit Suarre, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 140. 
Trochilus alleni Ripaway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., viii, sig. 23, Sept. 2, 1885, 355.— 
AmERICAN OrnitHoLogists’ Union, Check List, 1886, no. 434.—Scorr, 
Auk, iii, 1886, 431 (Santa Catalina Mts., Arizona, 4,500 ft., 1 spec., July).— 
Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 30 (e. Cascade and Rocky Mt. 
districts).—LawreEnce (R. H.), Auk, ix, 1892, 44 (Grays Harbor, Wash- 
ington, summer resid.). 
T[rochilus] allent Ripeway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 314. 
SELASPHORUS RUFUS (Gmelin). 
RUFOUS HUMMING BIRD. 
Adult male.—Pileum dull metallic bronze or bronze-green; rest of 
upper parts, including loral, orbital and auricular regions, sides of 
occiput, and greater part of tail, plain cinnamon-rufous, the back 
sometimes glossed with metallic bronze-green; rectrices with a ter- 
minal median, more or less fusiform or cuneate, area of purplish 
or bronzy dusky; remiges dark brownish slate or dusky, faintly 
glossed with purplish; chin and throat brilliant metallic scarlet; 
changing to golden green in position 6; chest white, passing through 
cinnamon-buff posteriorly into cinnamon-rufous on rest of under 
parts (paler medially); the under tail-coverts whitish basally; femoral 
tufts white; bill dull black; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length 
(skins), 73-91 (84); wing, 38-41.5 (40.3); tail, 26-29 (27.9); exposed 
culmen, 15-17.5 (16.5).% 
Adult female.—Above metallic bronze-green, usually slightly duller 
on pileum; remiges dark brownish slate or dusky, faintly glossed 
with purplish; middle pair of rectrices metallic bronze-green (usually 
more dusky terminally), both webs broadly edged basally with 
cinnamon-rufous (sometimes with whole basal half or more of this 
color); next pair with more than basal half cinnamon-rufous, then 
metallic bronze-green, the terminal portion purplish black; three 
outer pairs broadly tipped with white, the subterminal portion 
(extensively) purplish black, the basal half (approximately) cinna- 
mon-rufous, the latter usually separated from the black by more or 
less of metallic bronze-green; chin, throat, and chest dull white, the 
throat usually with tips of some of the feathers metallic orange-red 
or scarlet (changing to golden and greenish), sometimes with a large 
patch of this color; rest of under parts cinnamon-rufous laterally, 
fading into dull buffy whitish on breast and abdomen; femoral tufts 
white; under tail-coverts pale cinnamon-rufous or cinnamon-buff 
centrally, broadly margined with white or buffy white, the longer 
@ Highteen specimens. 
