. 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. Fio. 307. — Tall of S. alltni, iiat. Fio. 808.— Green-backed RufouR Hiimiiiini;-bir(l, tf, nut. size. (From Elliot.) platycercus the same feather is wide, and over long.) Rocky Mts. to the Pacific, N. to Ahiska; the commonest and most extensively distributed species in the West. Noted as the northernmost known spe
. 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. Fio. 307. — Tall of S. alltni, iiat. Fio. 808.— Green-backed RufouR Hiimiiiini;-bir(l, tf, nut. size. (From Elliot.) platycercus the same feather is wide, and over long.) Rocky Mts. to the Pacific, N. to Ahiska; the commonest and most extensively distributed species in the West. Noted as the northernmost known species of the family. (This is S. ruftis, Gm., the true " Nootka Sound Humming-bird," the ^ easily known by its cinnamon-red back, and vne nick in the to the middle tail-feather. S. hemhmci Elliot.) 412. 8. al'lenl. (To C. A. Allen, of California. Figs. 307,308.) Rufous Humming- Biui>. Allen Humming-bikd. In generalities similar to the last. $: Two outer tail-feathers ciu each side very small and narrow, the outermost almost ucicular; next little larger; third abruptly larger; fourth from the outer smaller than third or middle pair. Upper parts golden-green, dullest on crown. Under tail-coverts, belly and sides cinnamon, paler on the median line, white on breast next to the gorget. Tail-feathers cinnamon, tipi)ed and edged with dusky-purplish. Gorget liery-red. Length about ; wing ; tail ; bill ? similar to 9 ''"/"s .* averaging smaller; tail-feathers nar- rower, especially the outer ones. Coast region of California an-1 northward. (This is the bird of ten described as 9 riifus; carefully distinguished by Henshaw, Bull. Nutt. Club, ii, 1877, p. 53; considered by Elliot to be true riiftis Gm.) 413. S. platycer'cus. (Gr. jrXorus, platus, broad ; KfpKos, kerkos, tail. Fig. 309.) Broad-tailed HUMMiNO-Biuu. (J : No scales on toji of head ; crown like back. A gorget of scales, not prolonged into a ruff. Outer primary atte
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