340 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Young male {nestling). — Essentially like immature males, but col- 

 oration duller, the under parts rather dull metallic bronze-green (like 

 upper parts), the pileum and nape dusky, faintly glossed with bronze- 

 green (no nuchal crest). 



Adult jemale. — Above bright metallic bronze-green or greenish 

 bronze, becoming much duller on pileum, where the green or bronze 

 is confined to a terminal spot on each feather, the remaining portion 

 being grayish dusky; middle pair of rectrices bright bronze-green or 

 greenish bronze, the other rectrices black, more or less glossed with 

 bronze-green on basal portion of outer web, the two outermost (on 

 each side) extensively tipped with white; remiges dusky, faintly 

 glossed with bronzy purple, the innermost secondaries with outer 

 webs more or less extensively metallic bronze-green (mostly on termi- 

 nal portion) ; primary coverts dusky, glossed on outer web with 

 bluish green; loral and auricular regions grayish dusky; malar region 

 and under parts white, the sides, flanks, sides of neck and chest 

 heavily spotted with metallic bronze-green or greenish bronze, the 

 sides of throat sometimes with similar but smaller spots; maxilla 

 dusky, sometimes becoming brownish (dull reddish in life?) basally; 

 mandible pale brownish or dull yellowish (pink or reddish in life), 

 passing into dusky terminally; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length 

 (skins), 97-112 (105); wing, 54.5-58 (56.9); tail, 35.5-40 (37.6), 

 middle rectrices, 30-33.5 (31.4); culmen, 19-21.5 (21).« 



Southern slope, island of Jamaica (vicmity of Kingston; Cinchona, 

 5,000 feet; Spanishtown; Hope Gardens, 700 feet; Flanstead; 

 Moneague; Port Henderson); accidental or occasional on northern 

 slope (Priestmans River). 



[ Trodiilus] polytwns Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 120 (based on Polytmus 

 viridans Brown, Jamaica, 145; Long-tailed Black-cap Humming Bird, Avis 

 mellivora, viacroura, capite nigro, Edwards, Nat. Hist., i, pi. 34); ed. 12, i, 

 1766, 189.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 486.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 

 1790, 302. 



T[rochilus] polytmus Vieillot, Tab. Enc. M^tli., ii, 1822, 554. 



Trochilus polytmus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet., d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 355. — Gosse, 

 Birds Jamaica, 1847, 97; Illustr. Birds Jam., 1849, pis. 19, 20.— Gould, Mon. 

 Troch., ii, 1849, pi. 98. 



A[ithurus] polytmus CABANisand Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, March, 1860, 50. — Heine, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 205. — Newton, Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 108. — Hartert, 

 Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 106 (monogr.). 



Aithurus polytmus Gould, Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 75. — Sclater, Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 293.— March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 284.— Elliot, 

 Ibis, 1872, 353 (synon.; crit.); Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 96.— Mul- 

 SANTand Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, livr. 4, 1874, 335; iv, livr. 3, 

 1878, 185.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 352; Birds West Ind., 1889, 147; Cat. West 

 Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, 106, 130.— Scott, AiikTix, 1892, 277, part.— Salvin, Cat. 



« Ten specimens. 



