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Adult male (No. 24616, Jalapa, Mexico ; Dr. A. L. Heertnann) : Above 

 metallic greenish bronze, strougly tinged with golden bronze on hind- 

 neck, back, scapulars, and rump ; reuiiges dusky, very faintly glossed 

 with purplish ; middle pair of tail-feathers bronze-green, the basal por- 

 tion cinnamon-rufous, this most distinct on edges (broadly) where con- 

 tinued half-way to the tip ; next pair of feathers cinnamon-rufous, 

 tipped with a guttate spot of purplish black, this preceded by a broad, 

 V-shaped patch of metallic bronze-green ; remaining rectrices broadly 

 tipped with white and crossed by a broad, subterminal patch of pur- 

 plish black, the basal portion of all light cinnamon-rufous. Ear-coverts 

 grayish brown or olive ; gorget, including chin, malar region, and entire 

 throat, brilliant metallic magenta-purple, with steel-blue and even 

 greenish reflections; the more posterior, and especially the postero- 

 lateral, feathers much elongated (the longest extending nearly 1.00 inch 

 from the chin-angle), the individual feathers rather narrow but with 

 rounded tips; chest, breast, belly, and under tail-coverts white; sides 

 and flanks light rusty, glossed in places with golden bronze ; bill and 

 feet black; length (skin), 2.75; wing, 1.50; tail, 0.95; exposed culmen, 

 0.50. 



Adult female (No. 24618, Jalapa, Mexico ; Dr. A. L. Heermaun) : 

 Above bright metallic bronze-green, tinged with goldeti bronze, duller 

 on top of head; remiges dusky, with faint purplish reflections; middle 

 pair of tail-feathers metallic green, passing into blackish at tips, but 

 without rufous at base; next pair with a terminal spot of light cinna- 

 mon, then purplish black for about 0.22 of an inch, the remaining por- 

 tion cinnamon-rufous, with a small space of green between this color 

 and the black, on the outer web ; next feathers similar, but terminal 

 spot whitish instead of cinnamon, with black more extensive and only 

 a trace of the green space; next, similar, but terminal spot pure white 

 and a little larger; outer feather similar to the second, but white spot 

 a little larger, and basal portion much duller, as well as paler, rusty. 

 Chin and throat white, tinged with pale rusty laterally, spotted with 

 bronzy brown ; chest plain white ; sides and flanks cinnamon-rufous, 

 the belly whitish ; lower tail-coverts cinnamon-buff; bill and feet black ; 

 length (skin), 2.85; wing, 1.40; tail, 0.85; the outer feathers 0.10 

 shorter; exposed culmen, 0.48. 



The specimen from El Paso, Texas, referred to in the " Ornithology 

 of California," " History of North American Birds," and subsequent 

 works as being this species, proves to be a young example of Stellula 

 calliope. (See The Auk, January, 1891, p. 115.) 



