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Athabaska, latitude 59°) and central Alberta; west to about middle 
portion of Great Plains (along streams); breeding southward to 
middle Florida (Tarpon Springs) and along the Gulf coast to west- 
central Texas (Bexar, Tom Green, and Concho counties); wintering 
from middle and southern Florida (Tarpon Springs, Punta Rassa, 
Key West, Dry Tortugas, etc.) and southern Texas (Bexar, Lee, and 
Cameron counties, etc.) southward over greater part of Mexico, in 
States of Tamaulipas (Sierra de Victoria; Tamasi; Tampico; Escan- 
dén), Puebla, Vera Cruz (Miradér; Jalapa; Cordova: Orizaba; Coate- 
pec; Maltrata; Catemaco; Misantla; Playa Vicente), Mexico (Valley 
of Mexico; Ajusco; Amecameca), Morelos (Cuernavaca; Turrtceres), 
Michoacan (La Salada), Jalisco (Bolafios; Volcan de Colima), Sinaloa 
(Escuinapa), Guerrero (Chilpancingo; Acahuitzotla; near Ometepec; 
E] Limon; Tecpén; Venta de Zopilote), Oaxaca (Tehuantepec; 15 
miles west of Oaxaca; Santa Efigénia; Tonaguia), Tabasco (Frontera), 
Chiapas (Comitan), and Yucatan (Mérida; Labna; Tabi; La Vega; 
Schkolak; Progreso; Chichen-Itza; Cozumél Island; Holbox Island), 
Guatemala (Duefias; Coban; San Gerénimo; Acatenango; Guatemala 
City; Salama; Gualin; Panajach4l; Lake Amatitlan; Rincon de San 
Marcos; Santa Ana de Petén; between Coban and Chiséc), Nicaragua 
(Omotepe) and Costa Rica (Las Cruces de la Candelaria; Volcan de 
Irazi; San José; Turrticares; Santo Domingo de San Mateo; Juan 
Vifias; Bebedero; Bagaces) to western Panamé (Volcén de Chiriquf, 
Verégua); also Bahamas (New Providence Island), Cuba, Porto Rico, 
and Bermudas. 
[Trochilus] colubris Linnaus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 120 (based on Red- 
throated Humming Bird, Avis mellivora, minor, gutture rubro, Edwards, Nat. 
Hist., i, pl. 38; Humming Bird Catesby, Carolina, i, 65, pl. 65); ed. 12, i, 
1766, 191.—Gme.in, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 492.—Laraam, Index Orn., i, 1790, 
312. 
Trochilus colubris Viz1LLoT, Ois. Dor., i, 1801, 66, 69, 70, pls. 31, 32, 33; Ois. 
Am. Sept., i, 1807, 73, pls. 31, 32; Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 371.— 
Temmincx, Cat. Syst., 1807, 83.—Winson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 26, pl. 10, 
figs. 3, 4Jarpinz, Nat. Libr., Humming-birds, i, 1833, 85, pl. 5.—Bowna- 
PARTE, Synop. Birds U. S., 1828, 98; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 10; Consp. 
Av., i, 1850, 81; Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 256.—Swainson and Ricu- 
ARDSON, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 323.—Nurraun, Man. Orn. U. 8. and 
Can., i, 1832, 588.—AupuBon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 248, pl. 47; v, 1839, 544; 
Synop., 1839, 170; Birds Am., iv, 1842, 190, pl. 253.—Grravup, Birds L. I., 
1844, 169.—Hurpis, Jardine’s Contr. Orn., 1850, 37 (Bermudas).—ReEtcu- 
ENBACH, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 12; Troch. Enum., 1855, 10, pl. 826, figs. 
4939-44.—Cazanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 98 (Cuba).—ScratEeR, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 287 (Cérdova, Vera Cruz); 1859, 367 (Jalapa, Vera 
Cruz), 386 (Oaxaca); 1864, 176 (City of Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 297 
(Duefias, Guatemala).—Barrp, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 131; 
Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 101; Rep. U. 8. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, 
pt. 2, 1859, 6 (Brownsville, Texas).—GovuLp, Mon. Troch., pt. xv, 1858; 
vol. iii, 1861, pl. 131; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 86 (crit.).—MaRTENs, 
Journ. fiir Orn., 1859, 216 (Bermudas).—Scnater and Satvin, Ibis, 1859, 
