636 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Co., New Mexico, breeding up to 8,000 ft.).—-GRINNELL (J.), Pub. 2, Pasa- 
dena Ac. Sci., 1898, 27 (Los Angeles Co., California, sum. resid.); Condor, 
vi, 1904, 42 (Palm Springs, Riverside Co., California, Dec.); Univ. Calif. 
Pub. Zool., v, 1908, 70 (San Bernardino Mts., breeding on foothills).— 
Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 221 (Culiac4n, Sinaloa).— 
Snyper, Auk, xvii, 1900, 244 (Blue Lake, Idaho, July).—Carrott, Auk, 
xvii, 1900, 344 (Refiigio Co., Texas, transient).—Bamery (Florence M.), 
Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 235.—Sronz and Regn, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 
Phila., 1903, 27 (Dry Cafion, Otero Co., New Mexico, breeding).—Swartu, 
Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 4, 1904, 17 (Huachuca Mts., Arizona, up to 7,000 
ft.).—Jounson, Condor, viii, 1906, 28 (Cheney, e. Washington, breeding).— 
Mitter (W. De W.), Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xxii, 1906, 167 (Rio Setin, n. w. 
Durango, April) —Suarp, Condor, ix, 1907, 88 (San Diego Co., California, 
breeding).—Krrmopg, Prov. Mus., 1909, 51 (Chilliwack, Brit. Columbia). 
[Trochilus] alexandri Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 256.—Covsgs, 
Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 184.—ScLaTer and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 
1873, 84.—Suarre, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 140. 
Mf[ellisuga] alexandri Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec., 1848, 113. 
[Selasphorus] 8. Archilochus alexandri ReicHEnBacH, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 13. 
[Selasphorus] alecandri ReicHenBAcH, Troch. Enum., 1855, 10, pl. 855, figs. 
5030-5032. 
Ornismya alexandri Mutsant and VERREAUX, Classif. Troch., 1866, 91; Hist. 
Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 1, 1877, 61.—Bovcarp, Notes Troch. du Mex., 
1875, 4 (coast of Chiapas). 
[Ornismya] alexandri Mutsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. 8., xxii, 1876, 227. 
[Trochilus] alexandrei Stuon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 38. 
Archilochus alexandri AMERICAN OrNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION CommirtrTEsz, Auk, xxvi, 
July, 1909, 298; Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 202. 
ARCHILOCHUS VIOLAJUGULUM @ (Jeffries). 
VIOLET-THROATED HUMMING BIRD. 
Adult male.-—Pileum dull dusky green—almost black when viewed 
from in front, more metallic from behind; rest of upper parts, except 
remiges and rectrices (but including middle pair of the latter), bronzy 
green; remiges and primary coverts dull purplish dusky; tail (except 
middle pair of rectrices) dull black, the feathers tinged at tips with 
metallic green; a small white spot behind eye; chin and a rather 
indistinct stripe thence backward beneath eye and along upper margin 
of gorget opaque dull black; gorget metallic auricula purple (much 
less violaceous than in A. alexandri), the posterior and lateral feathers 
not elongated; chest dull grayish white; rest of under parts dull 
light bronzy green, nearly uniform on sides and flanks, elsewhere 
broken by whitish margins to the feathers, these particularly distinct 
on the lower tail-coverts and along middle line of the belly; bill 
black, feet dusky; length (skin), 86; wing, 47; tail, 33; middle 
@ Probably a hybrid of Archilochus alexandri and Calypte anna. 
6 Description from type, no. 1616, coll. Dr. J. Amory Jeffries, (now in coll. Mus. 
Comp. Zool.). 
