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HUMMINGBIRDS 
Adult male. — Forehead and chin deep blue, throat and upper parts of 
chest metallic emerald green ; a conspicuous white stripe behind eye ; tail 
mainly blackish. Adult female and young: under parts gray, spotted with 
green; head marked with stripes as in male ; middle tail feathers entirely 
green or bronzy, the others black, the outer pairs tipped with grayish. 
Length: 3.25-3.40, wing 2.00-2.30,tail 1.30-1.50, exposed culmen .65-68. 
Distribution. — From mountains of southeastern Arizona, south to Nica¬ 
ragua. 
Food. — Insects found in honeysuckles and other flowers. 
In the Chiricahua Mountains Dr. Fisher found a white-eared hum¬ 
mingbird on a bush of the wild honeysuckle from which the other 
hummingbirds of the neighborhood—the broad-tailed, Rivoli, and 
blue-throated — were regularly feeding. 
GENUS IACHE. 
441. Iache latirostris (Swains.). Broad-billed Hummingbird. 
Bill wide at base; tail deeply emarginate in male, less so in female. 
Adult male: gorget peacock blue ; rest of body metallic green, some¬ 
times bronzy on back ; tail blue black, tipped with gray. Adult female: 
upper parts green, becoming gray on fore¬ 
head ; under parts soiled grayish; tail with 
middle feathers and basal half of outer green, 
corners blue black tipped with gray; a whit¬ 
ish streak behind eye , with dusky streak below 
it. Young male: similar to adult female, 
but tail as in male; lower tail coverts white, 
feathers of upper parts edged with buff; new 
feathers on throat bluish green, becoming 
more bluish toward chin. Young female: 
similar to adult, but feathers of upper parts 
bordered with pale buff. Male: length 3.50- 
3.75, wing 2.00-2.20, tail 1.35-1.50 (forked 
for .25-35), bill .75-85. Female: length 
3.88-4.10, wing 2.00-2.15, tail 1.25-1.30 
(forked for .15), bill .78-85. 
Distribution. — From mountains of south¬ 
ern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico 
south to the city of Mexico. 
Nest. — Saddled to a drooping twig made of bark and plant fibers, out¬ 
side decorated with strips of bark, fine stems, and lichen. 
In Arizona where Mr. Stephens found the broad-billed humming¬ 
birds they were always near water, usually along streams in high 
mountain canyons. They perched on dead twigs where they could 
command a view, apparently preferring sycamores to other trees. 
He describes their notes as flat, differing from those of other hum¬ 
mingbirds. 
