and Mulsant).--_Specimens examined:_
total 2: [Male] 31035 from the Rio Grande (=17 mi. S Dryden, Terrell
County, Texas, in Coahuila), 600 ft., March 18, 1952; and [Male] 32052
from 2 mi. S, 11 mi. E Nava, 810 ft., June 16, 1952.
Miller (1955a:165) stated the Black-chinned Hummingbird was common in
the desert area at the base of the mountains of the Sierra del Carmen,
and that Marsh, on July 25, obtained this hummingbird "near Piedra
Blanca (Conejo)." Burleigh and Lowery (1942:191) obtained a female in
an arroyo about twenty miles west of Saltillo on April 22.
**_Selasphorus platycercus platycercus_ (Swainson).--_Specimens
examined:_ total 2: [Male] 31583 from 20 mi. S Ocampo, 6500 ft., April
4, 1954; and [Female] 32673 from 13 mi. E San Antonio de las Alazanas,
9950 ft., July 6, 1955.
Miller (1955a:165) indicated that the Broad-tailed Hummingbird was
fairly common in the Sierra del Carmen. According to Burleigh and
Lowery (1942:191) this species is not uncommon in the pine woods
bordering the summit of Diamante Pass; they saw the bird between 4900
and 10,000 feet.
*_Eugenes fulgens fulgens_ Boucard.--Miller (1955a:165) obtained a male
Rivoli's Hummingbird on Loomis Peak, 8800 feet, on April 11 in the
Sierra del Carmen.
**_Lampornis clemenciae clemenciae_ (Lesson).--_Specimens examined:_
total 2: [Male] 31036 from 26 mi. W Santa Teresa, 7050 ft., April 5,
1952; and [Female] 32668 from 13 mi. E San Antonio de las Alazanas,
9950 ft., July 6, 1955.
The Blue-throated Hummingbird occurs between 5000 and 9950 feet in
Coahuila. Miller (1955a:165) remarked that it was found in canyon
bottoms, "whether at 7500 feet among the rocky slopes, oaks, and white
pines ... or at 5000 feet in the madrone, maples, elms, and
basswoods...." No. 32668, was obtained in a Douglas fir-pine-aspen
association at 9950 feet.
[_Amazilia yucatanensis chalconota_ Oberholser.--The Buff-bellied
Hummingbird seems to be uncommon in Coahuila. Friedmann, Griscom, and
Moore (1950:172) and the AOU Check-list Committee (1957:306) stated
that this hummingbird occurs in Coahuila.]
_Megaceryle alcyon alcyon_ (Linnaeus).--Miller (1955a:165) saw a Belted
Kingfisher at Carboneras Canyon in the Sierra del Carmen. Miller,
Friedmann, Griscom, and Moore (1957:15) stated that one specimen of _M.
a. alcyon_ was obtained in Coahuila on November 14.
**_Chloroceryle americana hachisukai_ (Laubmann).--_Specimens
examined:_ total 2: [Female] 32053 from 12
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