BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



471 



adult male; length (skins), 99-110 (104) ;« wing, 54-63 (58.1); tail, 

 31.5-34 (32.7); culmen, 21-25.5 (23.6)." 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult female, Init basal ])ortion of 

 lateral rectrices mostly chestnut (glossed with violet-purple), and 

 throat and chest showing, along median line, more or less of the 

 metallic bronze or bronze-green and black of the adult plumage. 



Islands of Porto Rico (Catafio; Luquillo; Aguadilla; Arroyo; 

 Ponce; Ilucares; Coamo; Ahasco; El Yiinque), Culebra, St. 

 Thomas, St. Johns, and Anegada, Greater Antilles. 



TrochUus aurulentus Audebert and Vieillot, Ois. Dores, i, 1801, 29, 31, pis. 12, 

 13 (Porto Rico; coll. Paris Mus.). — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 

 1817, 350 (Porto Rico).— Lesson, Hist. Nat. Colibr., 1830-31, 68, 71, 73, 74, 

 pis. 16-19 (Porto Rico); Index Gen. et Synop. Troch., 1832, p. xi, (Porto Rico). 



Lampornis aurulentus Cashin , Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 377 (St. Thomas). — 

 MuLSANT and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, livr. 2, 1874, 152, part 

 (St. Thomas; Porto Rico). — Gundlach, Journ. ftir Orn., 1878, 181 (Porto 

 Rico; crit.); Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 233 (Porto Rico). 



[Lampornis] aurulentus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 81, part 

 (Porto Rico; St. Thomas). — Gundlach, Journ. fiii" Orn., 1874, 312 (Porto 

 Rico); 1878, 160 (Porto Rico). — Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 

 202, part (St. Thomas; Porto Rico). 



TrochUus {Lampornis) aurulentus Sundevall, Oefv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1869, 

 600 (Porto Rico). 



Lampornis mrginalis Gould, Mon. Troch., ii, pt. xxiv, Sept., 1861, pi. 80 (St. 

 Thomas, Greater Antilles; coll. J. Gould); Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 

 66.— Sclater, Cat. Am. Bii-ds, 1862, 291.— Cory, Cat. West Ind. Bu-ds, 

 1892, 12, 108, 143 (Anegada; Porto Rico; St. Thomas?).— Salvin, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 97 (Porto Rico; St. Thomas).— Boucard, Gen. Hum. 

 Birds, 1895, 329 (St. Thomas).— Bowdish, Auk, xix, 1902, 366 (Porto Rico; 

 habits). 



[Lampornis aurulentus] var. virginalis Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s., 

 xxii, 1876, 202 (St. Thomas). 



L[am.pornis] virginalis Hartert, D-AsTierreich, Troch., 1900, 99 (monogr.). 



[Lampornis] virginalis Shakpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 119. 



[Polytmus] virginalis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 126, no. 1583. 



Lampornis ellioti Cory, Auk, vii, Oct., 1890, 374 (Anegada I., W. I.; coll. C. B. 

 Cory). — Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 329 (Anegada). 



" Two specimens. 



'> Eleven specimens. 



I.oc'ulitv. 



M.\LES. 



Ten adult males from Porto Rico 63 3G.5 23.5 



One adult male from Culebra Island 62 36 24 



Four adult males from St. Thomas 62.1 37.3 22.2 



Two adult males from Anegada 60.7 36.7 22.9 



FEMALES. 



Six adult females from Porto Rico 58.2 32.6 24.3 



Three adult females from St. Thomas 58.8 32.7 23.3 



Two adult females from St. Johns 5G.5 33.2 23.2 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



