616 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Calliphlor rufa Bonaparte, Comp. and Geog. List, 1838, 10—GamBet, Proc. 
Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1846, 111; Weigmann’s Archiv fiir Naturg., xiv, 1848, 82. 
Polytmus rufus Woovuovuss, Rep. Sitgreaves’ Expl. Zufii and Col. R., 1853, 
66 (New Mexico). 
Trochilus rufus AUDEBERT and VrEtLot, Ois. Dorés, i, 1802, 110, 111, pls. 
61, 62. 
[Trochilus] collaris Laraam, Index Orn., i, 1790, 318 (based on T. rufus Gmelin; 
cites also Sassineer sasin Cook’s Last Voy., ii, 297, etc.). 
Trochilus collaris Virttot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 75; Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. 
Nat., vii, 1817, 374 (cites Ois. Dorés, pls. 61, 62)—Suaw, Gen. Zool., viii, 
1811, 343. 
T[rochilus] collaris Viertiot, Tabl. Enc. Méth., ii, 1822, 571. 
[Selosphorus] ruber (not Trochilus ruber Linnzeus)* Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 
1850, 82. 
[Selasphorus] ruber BONAPARTE, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 256. 
Selasphorus ruber RetcHenBacH, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 13; Troch. Enum., 
1855, 10, pl. 852, figs. 5021-5023.—ScxiateR, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 
126 (San José Valley, California); 1858, 297 (Oaxaca). 
S[elasphorus] ruber CaBANIS and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 56 (California). 
Selasphorus henshawi Exiiot, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, Oct., 1877, 97, 102 (crit.); 
Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 111. 
“ Trochilus sitkensis RATHKE (Bonaparte).”’ 
SELASPHORUS FLORESI Gould.? 
FLORESI’S HUMMING BIRD. 
Adult male-—¥orehead and crown, chin, and throat glittering 
metallic rose red, changing to scarlet, especially on chin and upper 
throat; occiput, hindneck, back, scapulars, wing-coverts, rump, 
and upper tail-coverts metallic bronze-green; remiges dusky, or 
dull brownish slate, faintly glossed with purplish; middle pair of 
rectrices metallic green (much less bronzy than back, etc.), the outer 
web broadly edged with rufous-chestnut nearly to the tip, the inner 
web similarly marked for basal half; next rectrix chestnut-rufous 
with a median stripe of purplish-black, this stripe gradually coming 
to a point before the base of the feather is reached, but in the other 
direction widening so as to reach the edge of each web about 6.3 
mm. from the tip; next rectrix similar, but the black occupying 
whole width of outer web to a distance of half an inch from 
the tip, but much restricted on inner web; next with the black 
extending about as far along the edge of the outer web, but not 
reaching farther along the shaft, while on the inner web it follows 
the shaft no farther than 5 mm. from the tip; lateral rectrix dusky, 
with shaft chestnut-rufous nearly to the tip and inner web a paler 
@ Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 193; based on Little Brown Humming Bird Edwards, 
pl. 32; Oiseau-Mouche Pourpre Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vi, 24; Mellisuga surinamensis 
Brean Orn., iti, 701. 
b Almost certainly a hybrid of S. allent and Calypte anna. 
