546 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



RICCORDIA SWAINSONH (Lesson). 



HAITIAN EMERALD. 



Adult male. — Above metallic bronze-green to grass-green, usually 

 duller on pileum, the upper tail-coverts decidedly more bronzy; tail 

 dark greenish bronze, becoming darker (dull blackish) on lateral 

 rectrices; remiges dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; chin, throat, 

 and sides of chest brilliant metallic emerald green or yellowish green; 

 center of chest and upper breast opaque velvety black; rest of under 

 parts metallic green or bronze-green, darker (sometimes blackish) 

 along median line, especially on abdomen; femoral and lumbar 

 tufts pale brownish gray; maxilla dull black; mandible pale (reddish 

 or flesh color in life), dusky terminally; iris dark brown; feet dusky 

 (in dried skins); length (skins), 102-nO (106); wing, 54.5-58 (55.7); 

 tail, 41-49 (43.6); culmen, 16-18 (16.9) .« 



Adult female. — Above as in the adult male, but lateral rectrices 

 bronze or bronze-green for basal two-thirds (approximately) the 

 subterminal or terminal portion black, the one or two outermost 

 pairs tipped (more or less broadly) with brownish gray; under parts 

 light brownish gray (nearest drab-gray), the sides and flanks over- 

 laid by metallic green or bronze-green; length (skins), 97-105 (100); 

 wing, 49-55 (53.2); tail, 35-39.5 (37.5); culmen, 17-19 (18.1).^ 



Island of Haiti (Le Coup and Gautier, Haiti; Samana, Catare, Agua- 

 cate. El Valle, La Canita, Sanchez, and La Vega, Santo Domingo). 



Trochilus elegans (not of Reich, 1795) Audebert and Vieillot, Ois. Cores, i, 

 1801, 32, pi. 14.— Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 351.— Lesson, 

 Suppl. Ois.-Mouch., 1830-31, 99.— Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1867, 

 95 (Santo Domingo). 



T[rochihis] elegans Vieillot, Tabl. Enc. Meth., ii, 1822, 556. 



H[ijlochaTis] elegans Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 114. 



[Hylocharis] elegans Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 150, no. 1943. 



[Lampornis] elegans Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 72. 



[Chlorestes. d. Riccordia] elegans Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 8. 



[Chlorestes] elegans Reichenbach, Troch. Enum., 1855, 4, pi. 704, fig. 4587. 



[Sporadiniis'] elegans Bonaparte, Rev. etMag. de Zool., 1854, 255. — Sclater and 

 Salvin.' jS'om. Av. Neotr., 1873, 94. — Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 

 1876, 209 (Haiti).— Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 18. 



Sporadinus elegans Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 233 (Santo Domingo). — 

 Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xviii, 1859; vol. v, 1861, pi. 347; Introd. Troch., 

 oct. ed., 1861, 173.— Elliot, Classif. and Synop. Troch.. 1879, 241.— Mul- 

 sant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., ii, livr. 1, 1875, 72 (Santo 

 Domingo); iv, livr. 3, 1878, 197.— Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 153 

 (Gautier and Le Coup, Haiti^; Birds Haiti and St. Dom., 1885, 93, pi. 22, 

 figs. 9, 10; Auk, iii, 1886, 358 (descr.; synon.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 152; 

 Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, 107, 13].— Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 

 1892, 59 (Samand, Santo Domingo). — Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 

 117.— Cherrie, Contr. Orn. San Dom., 1896, 18 (habits).— Christy, Ibis, 

 1897, 329 (Sanchez and La Vega, Santo Domingo). 



a Ten specimens. b Four specimens. 



