BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 653 
bronzy dusky or blackish; a small postocular spot (sometimes also a 
rictal spot) of dull whitish; chin and throat brilliant metallic solferino 
or magenta purple, changing to violet, the posterior feathers of sides 
of throat much elongated; chest dull white; sides and flanks mixed 
light cinnamon and metallic bronze or bronze-green, the median 
portion of breast and abdomen pale grayish or dull grayish white; 
under tail-coverts dull white with a central area of pale brownish 
gray; femoral tufts white; bill dull black; iris dark brown; feet 
dusky; length (skins), 84-96 (89); wing, 36-39 (37.6); tail, 27-31 
(28.6), middle rectrices 14-16.5 (15.3); exposed culmen, 19.5-22 
(21.1).¢ 
Adult female.—Above as in adult male but lateral rectrices much 
broader, the three outermost (on each side) with basal half (approxi- 
mately) light cimnamon-rufous, then (distally) purplish black, 
the two outermost broadly tipped with white, the black terminal or 
subterminal area on second and third separated from the cinnamon- 
rufous of basal portion by a narrow space of metallic bronze-green; 
fourth rectrix (from outside) mostly metallic bronze-green but 
terminal or subterminal portion blackish and outer web edged basally 
with light cinnamon-rufous; a postocular spot or streak of cinnamon- 
buff, and beneath this a narrow auricular area of grayish brown; 
malar region and underparts dull light vinaceous-cinnamon or cinna- 
mon-buff, passing into dull whitish on abdomen, the under tail- 
coverts mostly (sometimes almost wholly) whitish; femoral tufts 
white; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 83-92 (87); wing, 
39-44 (41.2); tail, 23-27 (24.7), middle rectrices 16-21 (20); ex- 
posed culmen, 20-22.5 (21.2).° 
Mexico, in States of Sinaloa (Mazatlan; Sierra Madre), Jalisco 
(Bolafios; Lake Chapala), Durango (Rancho Baillén), Guanajuato 
(Tupétaro), Nuevo Leén (Monteréy), San Luis Potosi (Sierra de San 
Luis Potosi; Hacienda La Parada), Vera Cruz (Miradér; 
Jalapa; Orizaba; Cérdova; San Andrés Tuxtla), Puebla (Chalchi- 
comula), Mexico (Temascaltepec; Valley of Mexico; Ajusco; Tetelco; 
San Antonio, Coapa; Hacienda Eslava; Ixtapalapa), Hidalgo (Real 
del Monte), Guerrero (Chilpancingo), and Chiapas (Ocozucuantla), 
and northward into southern Arizona (Camp Bowie) and south- 
western Texas (Chisos Mountains, breeding). 
Cynanthus lucifer Swatnson, Philos. Mag., n. s., i, 1827, 442 (Temascd4ltepec, 
Mexico).—Barrp, Brewer, and Ripeway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 
444, in text. 
C[alothoraz] lucifer Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec., 1848, 110—Casanis and Hrrnz, 
Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 55.—Hztwe, Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 207.—Covzs, Key 
N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 466.—Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 193. 
@ Ten specimens, b Eight specimens, 
