1918. CATALOGUE OF BIRDS OF THE AMERICAS CORY. 305 



*Mellisuga catharinae (SalU). HAITIAN VERVIAN HUMMINGBIRD. 



Ornismya catharinae SALL, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1849, p. 498 (Santo Domingo). 



Mettisuga minima SALL, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, p. 233 (Santo Domingo); 

 ELLIOT, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 103, part (San Domingo); CORY, Bds. Haiti 

 and San Domingo, 1885, p. 92, pi. 22, Fig. 6; Id., Auk, 1886, p. 354, part 

 (San Domingo); Id., Bds. West Indies, 1889, p. 149, part (San Domingo); 

 SALVIN, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 409, part (San Domingo). 



Mettisuga catharinae RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 1911, p. 586 

 (Santo Domingo). 



Range: Island of Haiti and San Domingo. 



fi3: Haiti (Le Coup) 3; San Domingo (Puerto Plata 3, San Do- 

 mingo City 4, Honduras 2, Catare i). 



Genus ORTHORHYNCHUS Lace"pede. 



Orthorhynchus Lac6pede, Tabl. Ois., 1879, p. 9 (Type Trochilus cristatus Lin- 

 naeus)." 



*Orthorhynchus exilis exilis (Gmelin). GILT-CRESTED HUMMINGBIRD. 



Trochilus exilis GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, 1788, p. 484 (" Guiana " = St. Kitts b ). 

 Orthorhynchus exilis GOULD, Mon. Trochil., IV, i86i,pl. 207; ALLEN, Bull. Nutt. 



Orn., Club, 1880, p. 167 (St. Lucia, crit.). 

 Bellona exilis ELLIOT, Syn. Trochil., 1879, P- 1 79'< CORY, Auk, 1886, p. 357; Id., 



Bds. West Indies, 1889, p. 152; Id., Cat. Bds. West Indies, 1892, pp. 107, 144; 



SALVIN, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 354. 

 Microlyssa exilis exilis WETMORE, Bull. No. 326, U. S. Dept. Agric., 1916, p. 70 



(Vieques = Culebra). 

 Orthorhynchus exilis exilis RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 1911, p. 



658. 



Range: Virgin group of Greater Antilles (St. Thomas, St. Croix, 

 Aengada, Virgin Gordo, Vieque, Culebra); Porto Rico and Lesser 

 Antilles, except St. Vincent, Grenada, Grenadines and Barbados. 



fi49: Virgin group of eastern Greater Antilles (St. Croix i, Ane- 

 gada 1 6, Virgin Gorda 16); Lesser Antilles (St. Kitts 39, St. Barthole- 

 mew i, Marie Galante 9; Grand Terre 10, St. Lucia n, Dominica i, 

 Martinique 19, Guadeloupe 25). 



*Orthorhynchus exilis ornatus (Gould}. ST. VINCENT BLUE-CREST. 



Orthorhynchus ornatus GOULD, Mon. Trochil., IV, 1860, pi. 206 (Type locality 



unknown = St. Vincent). 



Bellona ornatus CORY, Auk, 1889, p. 218 (St. Vincent, crit.). 

 Bellona ornata SALVIN, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 354 (St. Vincent). 



Cf. Oberholser, Smith. Misc. Coll., XLVIII, 1905, p. 60. 

 b I designate St. Kitts for the type locality. 

 c Cf. Wetmore, I.e. 



