BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 625 
Lower California, May), 530 (Santa Rosalia Bay), 531 (Cerros I., breeding), 
542 (San José del Cabo, Cape San Lucas, Miraflores, and La Paz, Lower 
California, breeding); vi, 1883, 343 (Guaymas, Sonora), 348 (mts. Lower 
California below 2,000 ft.)—BrewstTEr, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 
210 (Tucsén, Arizona); Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 112 (Cape San 
Lucas district; crit., habits, etc.).—Covurs, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 
415._StrepHens, Auk, i, 1884, 354 (Colorado Desert)—Gavir, Auk, ii, 
1885, 309-311 (San Bernardino Co.; descr. nest and eggs).—Satvin, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 404.—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 
Aves, ii, 1892, 359.—AxLEN, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 36 (El Pinita, 
Sonora, Oct.).—ANTHONY, Zoé, iv, 1893, 237 (San Pedro Martir Mts., Lower 
California, up to 7,500 ft., breeding); Auk, xii, 1895, 140 (San Fernando, 
Lower California).—AmERICcAN OrniTHOLOGISTS’ Unton Committee, Auk, x, 
1893, 62; Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 430; 3d ed., 1910, 203.—Harrert 
(E. and C.), Novit. Zool., i, 1894, 22 (California; descr. nest and eggs).— 
Benprire, Life Hist. Birds N. Am., ii, 1895, 202.—GrinnELL (J.), Pub. 
no. 1, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1897, 15 (San Clemente I., 1 spec., March 30); 
Pub. no. 2, 1878, 28 (Los Angeles Co., summer res.); Condor, vi, 1904, 42 
(Palm Springs, Riverside Co., Dec.); Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., v, 1898, 71 
(base of San Bernardino Mts., 2,500 ft., breeding).—Bamery (Florence M.), 
Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 236, fig. 310.—FisuEer (A. K.), North Am. 
Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 56 (Amaragosa Desert, Coso, Argus, Funeral, Panamint, 
and Grapevine Mts., Death Valley, etc., s. e. California; Mt. Magruder, 
Ash Meadows, Pahranagat Valley, Charleston Mts., Vegas Wash, Muddy 
Mts., Bend of Colorado R., etc., s. Nevada, breeding; Beaver Dam Mtz., 
8. Utah; habits)—Sronz, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1905, 682 (Cocopah 
Major Mts., Arizona, breeding)—Swartu, Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 4, 
1904, 17 (Huachuca Mts., Arizona, up to 5,500 ft., breeding chiefly in val- 
leys); Condor, vii, 1905, 79 (Santa Rita Mts., Arizona).—Kaxpine, Condor, 
vii, 1905, 184 (Todos Santos and San Benito islands and Turtle Bay, Lower 
California, March, April).—Suarp, Condor, ix, 1907, 88 (San Diego Co., 
breeding).—VisHer, Auk, xxvii, 1910, 282 (Tucsén, Arizona, summer res.). 
C[alypte] costae Hztne, Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 208. 
[Calypte] coste Scrarer and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 84. 
C[alypte] coste Cours, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 464. 
Atthis coste Barrp, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 138; ed. 1860 (Birds 
N. Am.), 138, pl. 19; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 106; Rep. U. 8. and 
Mex. Bound., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 22, pl. 19 (Bill Williams Fork, Arizona).— 
Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 190 (Ft. Tejon).—Covzs, Proc. 
Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 57 (Bill Williams Fork and Ft. Mojave); 1868, 82 
(s. Arizona).—Bovucarp, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1875, 20. 
Zephyritis costae MuLsANT and VERREAUX, Classif. Troch., 1866, 88. 
[Leucaria] costae Mutsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. 8., xxii, 1876, 227. 
Leucaria costae Mutsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 1, 
1877, 69, pl. 104; Suppl., pl. 6. 
[Calypte] costai Stuon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 39. 
CALYPTE HELEN (Lembeye). 
HELENA’S HUMMING BIRD. 
Adult male—Whole head, except postocular region (narrowly) very 
brilliant metallic rose red (slightly more purplish red on pileum), the 
feathers on sides of throat much elongated; hindneck, back, scapu- 
81255°—Bull. 50—11——40 
