650 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
DORICHA ELIZA (Lesson and Delattre). 
MEXICAN SHEAR-TAIL. 
Adult male-——Above metallic bronze or bronze-green, duller on 
pileum, the forehead sometimes dull brownish gray; three lateral 
rectrices (on each side) purplish bronzy black, the inner web of 
second and third broadly edged with light cinnamon; remiges deep 
brownish gray, very faintly glossed with purplish; chin (except 
anterior portion) and throat bright metallic solferino purple, tinged 
with violet laterally or posteriorly; chest white; median portion of 
breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts dull white, the latter (and 
sometimes lower abdomen) tinged with cinnamon-buff; sides and 
flanks (broadly) metallic bronze or bronze-green; femoral tufts white; 
bill dull black; iris dark brown; legs and feet dusky; length (skins), 
86-97 (98); wing, 34.5-36.5 (35.5); tail, 35.5-38 (37.1), middle rec- 
trices 10-12.5 (11); exposed culmen, 20.5-22.5 (21.3) .¢ 
Adult female—Above similar to the adult male, but three outer 
rectrices (on each side) with basal half (more or less) light cinnamon- 
rufous, the two outermost broadly tipped with white and crossed by 
a broad subterminal area of black, the third with terminal half black, 
with or without a small white tip; the second and third with more 
or less of metallic bronze-green between the cinnamon-rufous and 
black areas; under parts dull grayish white, more or less tinged with 
brownish buffy, especially on flanks and under tail-coverts, the sides 
and flanks (broadly) glossed with metallic bronze or bronze-green; 
bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 82-85 (83); wing, 37.5-40 
(38.7); tail, 23-25 (24.4), middle rectrices 19.5-23 (20.8); exposed 
culmen, 22-23 (22.4).° 
Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Barranca de 
Jico, near Jalapa; Miradér; Cérdova; Llano de Camerones, near Vera 
Cruz) and Yucatan (Mérida; Progreso; Sis4l; Holbox Island). 
Trochilus eliza LEsson and DELATTRE, Rev. Zool., 1839, 20 (between Vera Cruz 
and Jalapa, Vera Cruz, Mexico). 
C[alothoraz] eliza Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec., 1848, 110. 
Calothorazx eliza ScLaTER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 288 (Cérdova, Vera Cruz). 
[Doricha] eliza ScuatER and Savin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 85.—SHarpe, Hand- 
list, ii, 1900, 140. 
Doricha eliza FERRARI-PEREZ, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 157 (Jalapa). 
D[oricha] eliza Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 200. 
[Lucifer] 8. Myrtis elisa Retcuenspacu, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 18. 
[Lucifer] elisa RuicHensBacu, Troch. Enum., 1855, 10, pl. 845, figs. 4996-4998.— 
Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 257. 
Thaumastura elize Goutp, Mon. Troch., pt. xiii, May, 1857; vol. iii, 1861, pl. 
155.—SciaTer, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 299 (Mexico).—Dr Oca, Proc. Ac. 
Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 552 (habits); La Naturaleza, iii, 1875, 17. 
@ Seven specimens. b Four specimens. 
