. A manual of North American birds [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 318 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. d*. Tail rich bluo-black. Hub. Guatemala and Nicaragua. A. cyanura Gould. Blue-tailed Hummingbird.^ a'. Lower parts entirely uniform cinnamon. • h\ Smaller: Wing , tail , exposed culmen . Hab. Nicaragua, Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and southern Mexico, north to Yucatan and Mazatlan. A. cinnamomea (). Cinnamomeous Hummingbird.' 6». Larger: Wing , tail , exposed culmen . Hab. Tres Marias Islands, western Mexico. A. grayso
. A manual of North American birds [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 318 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. d*. Tail rich bluo-black. Hub. Guatemala and Nicaragua. A. cyanura Gould. Blue-tailed Hummingbird.^ a'. Lower parts entirely uniform cinnamon. • h\ Smaller: Wing , tail , exposed culmen . Hab. Nicaragua, Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and southern Mexico, north to Yucatan and Mazatlan. A. cinnamomea (). Cinnamomeous Hummingbird.' 6». Larger: Wing , tail , exposed culmen . Hab. Tres Marias Islands, western Mexico. A. graysoni Lawr. Grayson's Hummingbird.* I Genus BASILINNA Boie. (Page 309, pi. XC, fig. 6.) • Species. Common Characters.—Above metallic green, darker or duller on top of head; tail mainly chestnut or blackish, the middle feathers, however, with more or less green; a broad and very conspicuous white stripe behind eye, with a black, dusky, or brownish one immediately beneath it, across ear-coverts. Adult males with fore- head and chin black or deep blue, the throat and upper part of chest brilliant metallic emerald-green. Adult females with top of head dull brownish (sometimes tinged with green), and lower parts pale cinnamon, with or without green spots on throat, or dull grayish white, with sides green. a'. Tail mainly chestnut; posterior lower parts pale cinnamon. Adult male: Fore- head and chin opaque black, or dull blue-black; middle tail-feaUievs chestnut centrally, metallic green exteriorly, the rest'without dusky subterminal bar or spot. Adult female: Lower parts pale cinnamon, with or without green spots on throat; middle tail-feathers entirely green, the rest marked by a more or less distinct subtei-minal spot of dusky. Length about , wing , tail , exposed culmen. Nest about in diameter by about .80 in height, the cavity about X .; composed of various soft vegetable fibres (especially raw cotton, spiders' webs, etc.),
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