. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. -1G2 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. Selasphorus platycercus, G(h ld. BBOAB-TAILED HUMMINO-BIBD. Troih tins pill ([/cere us, S\v. Pliilos. Mag. I, 1827, 441 ^Mexico). Schiaphorus phdijccrcas, Gould, Mon. TroiliilM. or lluiuniing-lUitls, iii, Miy, 1852. — liAiuit, llinls X. Am. 1858, 135, ]»1. xliii, ligs. 1 and '1. — Coopeu, Pr. Lai. Ac. 1S68 ^Lake Tahoe). —1b. Oni. Cal. I, 1S7<», :J57. Oniisiuia tricolor, ;»N', Col
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. -1G2 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. Selasphorus platycercus, G(h ld. BBOAB-TAILED HUMMINO-BIBD. Troih tins pill ([/cere us, S\v. Pliilos. Mag. I, 1827, 441 ^Mexico). Schiaphorus phdijccrcas, Gould, Mon. TroiliilM. or lluiuniing-lUitls, iii, Miy, 1852. — liAiuit, llinls X. Am. 1858, 135, ]»1. xliii, ligs. 1 and '1. — Coopeu, Pr. Lai. Ac. 1S68 ^Lake Tahoe). —1b. Oni. Cal. I, 1S7<», :J57. Oniisiuia tricolor, ;»N', Colibris, 125 (no date), pi. xiv (IJio/il). — lu. Trochilide. 1831, 150, pi. Ix iMi-xico). — .:i)iNK, Nat. Lib. II, 77, pi. xiii. Ornisiiii/K iiiuiitana, Lkssun, Trochilid. 1831, l(il, pi. Ixiii, u«lult, and 1(33 ; pl. Ixiv, young (Mfxito), Sp. CiiAK. Outer primaries greatly attenuated at the end and tnrne<l outward. Outer tail-feathers nearly linear, l»ut widening a little from the base; its width .20 of an inch. Tail sli'jhtly graduated and eniar- Male aboye and on the sides metallic green ; chin and throat light reddish-purple, be- hind which, and along the belly to the tail, is a good deal of white. Wings and tail dusky purplish; the tail-feathers, excepting the internal and external ones, edged towards the biise with light cinnamon. Female without the metallic gorget; the throat-feath- ers with dusky centres. The tail somewhat cuneate, as in the male,. gmate. S' pfati/crcus. the feathers less pointed ; the outer three cinnamon-rufous at base (this extending some- what along the outer edgi's), then black, and broadly tipped with white (much as in the male Attn is heloisn). the inner two feathers green, the fourth with Mack spot at end. and only edg(>d at base with rufous. The sides '^nd crissuni also tinged witii cinnamon. Length, ;>(); wing. : tail, Bill, gape, .80. Hab. Tal)le-lands of Mexico and Rockv Mountains, and
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