342 REPORT OF. NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



Bang-e. — Southwestern Mexico (Bolanos, State of Oaxaca); acci- 

 dental near San Francisco, California. 



Sp. Char. — Adult male similar in color to Galypte anna, but red of 

 the head more scarlet, and tail-feathers largely rufous-chestnut ; outer 

 primary much narrower than in G. anna, and tail of very different 

 shape, the lateral pair of rectrices being much shorter than the middle 

 pair, instead of the reverse. 



Adult male (No. 2620, coll. Walter E. Bryant, San Francisco, Cali- 

 fornia): Whole top of head, except occiput, together with entire chin 

 and throat, including the elongated postero-lateral feathers of the gor- 

 get, intense, glowing metallic rose-red, changing to metallic scarlet, 

 especially on chin and upper part of throat; occiput, hind neck, back, 

 scapulars, wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts metallic bronze- 

 green ; remiges dusky v or dull brownish slate, faintly glossed with 

 purplish; middle pair of tail-feathers metallic green (much less bronzy 

 than back, etc.), the outer web broadly edged with rufous-chestnut 

 nearly to the tip, the inner web similarly marked for basal half; next 

 feather chestnut-rufous with a median stripe of purplish-black, this 

 stripe gradually coming to a point before the base of the feather is 

 reached, but in the other direction widening so as to reach the edge of 

 each web about .25 of an inch from the tip; next feather similar, but 

 the black occupying whole width of outer web to a distance of half an 

 inch from the tip, but much restricted on inner web ; next feather with 

 the black extending about as far along the edge of the outer web, but 

 not reaching further along the shaft, while on the inner web it follows 

 the shaft no further than .20 of an inch from the tip ; outer feather 

 dusky, with shaft chestnut-rufous nearly to the tip and inner web a 

 paler tint of the same for about the basal half. Chest pale brownish 

 gray, paler anteriorly against the lower margin of the metallic gorget ; 

 middle line of breast and belly similar ; sides and flanks metallic bronze- 

 green, the feathers margined with pale brownish gray ; axillars and 

 adjacent smaller under wing-coverts, light chestnut or cinnamon-rufous ; 

 femoral downy tufts white; under tail-coverts pale cinnamon-rufous, 

 becoming grayish white on laterobasal portion. Bill, black. Wing, 

 1.70. Tail, middle feathers 1.00, longest feathers (third pair) 1.20, 

 shortest feather (outer pair) 0.95,* exposed culmen 0.65. 



The adult male described above agrees exactly with Mr. Gould's 

 description and colored figures except in some minor and unessential 

 points, and since Mr. Gould's description and figures, though from the 

 same specimen, do not agree with one another, it is altogether likely 

 that neither is quite correct. Mr. Gould describes the color of the 

 middle pair of tail-feathers as "green with purple reflexions," and the 

 lateral ones as having the outer webs " purple" and the " inner webs 

 deep reddish buff," but they are not so colored in the plate, which 



* The tail being widely spread, these measurements may not be more than approx- 

 imately correct. 



