THE HUMMING BIRDS. 359 



Lucifer Humming Bird. Calothorax lucifer (Swains.). 



(Plate xlii.) 



Cynanthus lucifer Swains., Philos. Mag., i, 1827, 442. 



Calothorax lucifer Gray, Gen. B.,i, 1848, 110. — Lawr., Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, n, 



1877,108 (Camp Bowie, Ariz.). 

 Ornismya cyanopogon Less., Ois.-Mouch., 1829, 50, pi. 5. 



Calothorax cyanopogon Grait, Geu. B., i, 13. — Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xiv, 1857, 



pi. 1; vol. in, 1861, pi. 143. 

 Doricha enicura (error) Hensh., Am. Sportem., v, Feb. 20, 1875, 328 (Camp Bowie, 



Ariz.) ; Zool. Wheeler's Exp. 1875, 381. 

 Mexican Star (Gould). 



Le Calothorax Barbe-Bleue (Mulsant and Verreaux). 

 Chupamirto morado grande (D'Oca). 

 Oiseau-Moucbe Barbe-Bleue (Provost). 



Range. — Table-lands of Mexico, north to southern Arizona. 



Sp. Char. — Adult male with the gorget rich metallic violet, varying 

 to purplish blue; upper parts metallic bronze-green, the three outer 

 tail-feathers purplish black, the outermost one excessively narrow ; 

 chest buffy white, belly and under tail-coverts purer white; sides and 

 flanks dull greenish bronze, tinged with rusty; length, about 3.40- 

 3.80 ; wing, 1.40-1.60 ; tail, 1.20-1.35 (forked for nearly half its length) ; 

 exposed culmen, 0.75-0.90 ; the bill strongly curved. Adult female 

 bronze-green above, including middle pair of tail-feathers ; three outer 

 tad-feathers light cinnamon-rufous for about the basal half, then black, 

 the tips broadly white; post-ocular stripe, sides of neck, chin, throat, 

 malar region, sides, and flanks pale cinnamon-buff; belly white; length 

 (skin), about 3.30; wing, 1.65-1.80; tail, 1.20-1.25; exposed culmen, 

 0.75-0.90. 



Adult male (No. 97727, Tupataro, Mexico; Prof. A. Duges): Above, 

 metallic bronze-green, duller on top of head, more decidedly bronzy on 

 rump and upper tail-coverts; remiges dull dusky slate, faintly glossed 

 with purplish; four middle tail-feathers metallic green (scarcely bronzy), 

 the other tail-feathers purplish dusky, some of them tinged at tips 

 with metallic green, others minutely tipped with white. Gorget rich 

 metallic magenta-purple, changing to violet in certain lights; chest 

 dull white, tinged laterally and posteriorly with pale rusty ; middle 

 line of belly whitish, sides and flanks metallic bronze-green, tinged 

 with rusty; under tail-coverts white, some of the feathers faintly 

 bronzy-grayish at base; bill and feet black. Length (skin), 3.80 ; wing, 

 1.50; tail, 1.20, the middle feathers 0.50 shorter; exposed culmen, 0,85. 



Adult female (No. 35170, Mirador, Mexico ; Dr. C. Sartorius) : Above, 

 metallic golden green, much duller on top of head, the middle tail- 

 feathers nearly pure green ; remiges dull brownish slate or dusky, very 

 faintly glossed with purplish ; tail-feathers next to middle pair chiefly 

 metallic green, the terminal portion black, shaft of the green portion 

 pale rufous, and outer web broadly edged toward base with cinnamon- 

 rufous ; next feather with more than the basal half of both webs, includ- 



