TBOCHILID^ — TROCHILINjE: HUMMING-BIRDS. 
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Fig. 301. Refulgent Humming-bird. head, 
nat. size. (From Elliot., 
Fig. 302. — Tail of the same, cf , 
nat. size. (From Elliot.) 
chestnut, with a dark terminal spot. Length 3.50; extent 4.75; wing 2.10 ; tail 1.25; bill 
0.72. Cape St. Lucas. 
135. EU'GENES. (GiV. €X)ycvr}s, eugenes, well-horn.) Fulgent Hummers. Of great size : about 5 
inches long. Bill much longer than head, not quite straight, flattened and slightly widened at 
base, subcylindrical in continuity, with lancet- pointed tip. Frontal feathers extending on nasal 
scale. Tail ample, in $ moderately forked, in 9 double-rounded, all the feathers broad, with 
rounded ends. Tarsi feathered. A tuft of d(jwny white at insertion of feet. Outer primary 
but little narrower or more falcate than the rest. Sexes nearly alike in form, unlike in color. 
Bill black ; no white on tail of $ . 
408. E. ful'gens. (Lat. fulgens, glittering. Figs. 301, 302.) Eefulgent Humming-bird. ^ : 
Tail simply forked. General body-color shining golden-green above and below, duller on belly 
and crissum, on breast showing opaque black when viewed from before backward. Crown 
glittering metallic vio- 
let in proper light, 
opaque black viewed 
obliquely from behind 
forward. Gorget glit- 
tering emerald-green 
in proper light, opaque 
greenish-black from 
the opposite direc- 
tion. White marks about eyes. Tail like body, but more brassy. Wing-coverts and lining of 
wings like body ; quills dusky-purplish. Large : length about 5.00 ; extent 6.50 ; wing 2.75 : 
tail 1.75 ; biU over an inch from the feathers on culmen, nearly 1.50 along gape. 9 • Upper 
parts like those of the ^, but crown like back. No emerald gorget, the whole under parts 
whitish, specked here and there with green, the throat with dusky specks. Wings as in ^ , but 
tail very different; double-rounded, both central and lateral feathers shorter than intermediate 
ones ; middle feathers brassy-green, others the same in decreasing extent, increasing in blackish 
towards ends, and squarely tipped with dull white. Smaller: length about 4.50; wing 2.50; 
tail 1.50 ; bill, however, about as long. Our largest and 
discovered in Arizona. Texas ? 
136. TRO'CHILUS. (Gr. rpoxtXos, trochilos, Lat. trochilus, a 
Herodotus : by Linnaeus transferred to Humming-birds.) 
Gorget Hummers. Bill slender and subulate, not widened 
at base ; frontal feathers covering nasal 
scale. Tail in ^ forked or emarginate, 
with lanceolate feathers; in 9 sim- 
ply rounded or double-rounded, with 
broader feathers. Outer four primaries 
not peculiar; but the 1st one strongly 
curved or bowed at end inwards ; inner 
six abruptly smaller and more linear (in 
^ at least). Tarsi naked. Bill black. 
A metallic gorget in ^ , not prolonged into a ruff; no scales 
on crown. 9 lacking the gorget ; and tail white -tipped. 
409. T. co'lubris. (Latinized from the barbarous colibri. Figs. 
299, 303, 304.) Ruby-throated Humming-bird. $ : 
Tail forked, its feathers all narrow and pointed ; no scales 
on crown ; metallic gorget reflecting ruby-red. Above, golden-green ; below, white, the sides 
green; wings and tail dusky-purplish. 9: Lacking the gorget; throat white, specked with 
most magnificent species, lately 
runner: a plover so named by 
Fig. 303. — Ruby- 
throated Humming- 
bird, 9, tail, nat. size. 
(From Elliot.) 
Fig. 304. 
ming-bird, cf , 
— Ruby-throated Hum- 
nat. size. (From Elliot.) 
