. Key to North American birds [microform] : containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. fiUcate outermost feathor instead of straight linear parallel-sided rouuded-ended; and under parts less glossed with green. Tiie 9 costce lac'Us green on under jiarts, which are nioro white, has much narrower tail-feathers, and is smaller, in comparison with 9 nnnrv. The 9 coste m(jre closely resemhles 9 Slellulu calliope,
. Key to North American birds [microform] : containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. fiUcate outermost feathor instead of straight linear parallel-sided rouuded-ended; and under parts less glossed with green. Tiie 9 costce lac'Us green on under jiarts, which are nioro white, has much narrower tail-feathers, and is smaller, in comparison with 9 nnnrv. The 9 coste m(jre closely resemhles 9 Slellulu calliope, but the latter has traces at least of rufous on tail and under parts. Also resembles 9 Trochilm^, but has all the lateral tail- feathers whitc-tijiped. Arizona and Southern California, and southward. 139. AT'THIS. (Gr.'Artfir, ^^t,A^^ ;^V^',N. darkening at end or with a Fig. 313. —HelolsoHumming-biril, (f, 9, iiat. tlze.) From Elliot.) touch of rufous. Other tail- feathers rufous at base, then black-barred, then white-tipped — the only case of such parti- coloration in the male in United States species. Gorget glancing violet, sapphire, and lilac. Under parts snowy-white, glossed with g(dden-green, touched with rufous on Hanks. Very small: length ; wing ; tail ; bill 9= ^*> peculiarity of outer primary. Colors much as in the $, but no gorget, the throat being white, specked with dusky; tiie Hanks and crissum more rufous. Texas and southward; probably also New Mexico and Arizona. 140. STEL'MJLA. (Lat. .sW?»/rf, dim. of ,sfe?/«, astar.) Starry Hitsimeus. No scales on crown ; those of throat confined to the tips of the lengthened feathers, thus not forming a continuous metallic surface, but set like stars in a Heecy, snowy bed. Tail of ^ slightly double-rounded, the lateral feathers graduated, tiie central also shorter than the next; middle feathers «»ilike back in color; all broad, and rather widening to near the suddenly cmitracted ends; outer f
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