BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 617 
tint of the same for about the basal half; chest pale brownish gray, 
paler anteriorly against the lower margin of the metallic gorget; 
middle line of breast and belly similar; sides and flanks metallic 
bronze-green, the feathers margined with pale brownish gray; axillars 
and adjacent smaller under wing-coverts light chestnut or cinna- 
mon-rufous; femoral downy tufts white; under tail-coverts pale 
cinnamon-rufous, becoming grayish white on latero-basal portion; 
bill black; wing, 43.2; middle rectrices 25.4, longest rectrices (third 
pair), 30.5, shortest (outer pair), 24.1; exposed culmen, 16.5.% 
Bolafios, Jalisco, 1845;° San Francisco, California, 1885; Hay- 
wards, Alameda Co., California, Feb. 20, 1901; near Nicasio, Marin 
Co., California, Feb. 26, 1909. 
Selasphorus floresit (not Trochilus floresti Bourcier, 1846 ¢) Goutp, Mon. Troch., 
pt. xxiii, Sept. 1, 1861, pl. 10; vol. iii, 1861, pl. 139 (Bolafios, Jalisco, Mexico; 
coll. J. Gould; ex Trochilus floresii Loddiges, manuscript); Introd. Troch., 
oct. ed., 1861, 89.—Muisant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 89; 
Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 2, 1877, 98 (Bolafios)—Vittapa, La Natur- 
aleza, ii, 1874, 356.—Dr Oca, La Naturaleza, iii, 1875, 101, pl. 6, fig. 21; 
Troq. de Mex., 1875, 31, pl. (6), fig. 21—Boucarp, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 
xxii, 1876, 20; Notes Troch. du Mex., 1875, 7.—Ettiot, Classif. and Synop. 
Troch., 1879, 109.—Bryant, Forest and Stream, xxvi, no. 22, July 24, 
1886, 426 (San Francisco, Cal.).—Ripaway, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1890 
(1891), 340, pl. 38, fig. 1; Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 598.—Saxvin, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 392.—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.- 
Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 8352.—AmERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION COMMITTEE, 
Auk, x, 1893, 62; Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 431.1.—Bernpire, Life Hist. 
N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 209.—Emerson, Condor, iii, 1901, 68 (Haywards, 
Alameda Co., California, 1 spec., Feb. 20, 1901).—Grinnetu (J.), Pacific 
Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 41 (California records).—BatLey (Florence M.); 
Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 238.—Taytor (W. P.), Auk, xxvi, 1909, 291, 
in text (near Nicasio, Marin Co., California, 1 spec., Feb. 26, 1909; crit.). 
@ Description from no. 2620, coll. Walter E. Bryant, from San Francisco, California. 
This specimen agrees exactly with Mr. Gould’s description and colored figures except 
in some minor and unessential points, and since Mr. Gould’s description and figures, 
though from the same specimen, do not agree with one another, it is altogether likely 
that neither is quite correct. Mr. Gould describes the color of the middle pair 
of rectrices as ‘‘green with purple reflexions,’’ and the lateral ones as having the 
outer webs ‘‘purple” and the ‘‘inner webs deep reddish buff,’’ but they are not so 
colored in the plate, which represents the middle pair as green with a continuous 
broad border of rufous, and the outer pair as uniform purplish dusky, the interme- 
diate rectrices being rufous with a narrow median stripe of purplish dusky, expanding 
into a wedge-shaped space near the tip. The coloration of the tail as represented 
in the plate agrees very well with that of the San Francisco specimen, except that 
the latter has the basal half of the inner web of the outermost rectrix rufous, and 
lacks the rufous border around the end of the middle rectrices the rufous running 
out to the edge a little past the middle of the feather, and thus confined to a little 
more than the basal half. 
bIt is possible that the specimen (Gould’s type) in reality came from California, 
since Floresi collected there as well as in Mexico. 
¢ Trochilus floresiti Bourcier, Rev. Zool., 1846, 316 (Jamaica); =Anthracothorax 
mango (Linneeus). 
