The Humming Bird. 3 



with full descriptions and remarks on all the species found in 

 the United States, with beautiful life size black plates of 

 nearly all the species. 



The following species are mentioned as occurring in the 

 States. Eugenes fulgens, Coeligena clemenciae, Trochilus 

 colubris, violajugulum, and alexandri, Calypte annae, and 

 costae, Selasphorus rufus, alleni, and platycercus, Stellula 

 calliope, Calothorax lucifer, Amazilia cerviniventris, and 

 fuscicaudata, Basilinna xantusi, and Iache latirostris, 

 which ends the series of species found in the United States. 



He concludes by saying that the following three species, 

 Lampornis nigricollis, Atthis heloisae, and Agyrtria tobaci, 

 which have been mentioned in several works as American 

 birds, are not entitled to a place in that fauna, although he 

 thinks that Atthis heloisae may be found in Southern Texas. 

 I am exactly of the same opinion as Mr. Ridgway, whom I 

 congratulate heartily for his excellent work. 



Page 286, I read a passage copied from Wallace's 

 Tropical Nature, which says, in speaking of the Erjnit 

 Humming-birds : — 



" But there are many such, as PHAETHORINS EREMITA, 

 and some larger allied species which I have never seen at 

 flowers." 



This is quite wrong ! Phaethornis adolphi, and 

 P. longirostris, two species of which I have collected a large 

 number of specimens, were always shot by me, when feeding 

 on flowers. P. longirostris was always seen feeding on 

 flowers of CANNA and FOURCROYA, and P. adolphi was seen 

 early in the morning, and before sun-set, feeding chiefly on 

 flowers of CONVOLVULUS. 



The other memoirs contained in the Report are : — 

 White line engraving for relief printing, by S. R. 

 Koehler ; The Methods of Fire Making, by Walter 

 Hough; The Ulu, or Woman's knife of the Eskimo, by 

 Otis. T. Mason, with a profusion of wood-cuts ; The 

 Ancient Pit-Dwellers of Yezo, by Romyn Hitchcook, 

 with eight beautiful plates ; The AiNOS OF YEZO, Japan, by 

 the same author, with a large number of fine plates and wood- 

 cuts ; Handbook for the Department of Geology, by 

 George P. Merrill ; The Catlin COLLECTION OF INDIAN 

 PAINTINGS, by Washington Matthews, with many interesting 



