BTRDS OF NOTfTTT AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 585 



Adiilt fcnmle. — Similar to tlio adult male, but two lateral roctrices 

 (on each side) ])r()a<lly tipped with white, the third usually with a 

 small white or grayish white terminal si)()t; length (skins), 50-68 

 (()3); wing, 30-39 (37.8); tail, 19-21 (19.9); exposed culmen, 10-11.5 



(11).« 



Island of eTamaica (Kingston; S]>anishtown; Priestmans River; 

 Port Henderson; Hope Gardens). 



[Tro<hUttfi\ minimus Tjnn.eus, Syst. Nat., od. 10, i, 1758, 121 (based on Mcllisuga 

 avis minima Sloano, Jamaica, 307, pi. 3G1, %. 1; roJytmiis miniimis varwgatiis 

 Brown, Jamaica, 475, pi. 'AM, fie;. 1; Least Humming Bird Edwards, Nat. 

 llht., i, pi. 105); ed. 12, i, 1700, 193.— C.melin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 500.— 

 Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 320. 



(?) Tmchilus mininms Audehert and Vieillot, Ois. Dores, i, 1802, 113, pi. 64, 

 part. — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, d'llist. Nat., vii, 1817, 369, part. — Lesson, 

 Index Gen. et Synop. Troch., 1832, p. xxvii. 



T[rochiIus] minimus Vieillot, Tab. Enc. Meth., ii, 1822, 568, part. 



Ornismya minima Lesson, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., 1829, pp. xxxii, 213. 



[MrUisuga] minimus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 81, part ("Antilles"). 



Mcllisuga minima Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 6, part; Troch. Enum., 

 1855, 3, pi. 680, fig. 4490.— Gould, Men. Troch., iii, pt. ii, Nov., 1851 (vol. 

 iii, 1861, pi. 133), part; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 87, part.— Sclater, 

 Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 297 (Jamaica). — March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1863, 285 (Jamaica). — Elliot, Ibis, 1872, 354, part (Jamaica; synon.; crit.); 

 Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 103, part (Jamaica). — Mulsant and Ver- 

 REAUX, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 2, 1877, 82, part, pi. 106, figs. 1, 2 

 (Jamaica).— OoRY, Auk, iii, 1886, 354, part (Jamaica); Birds West Ind., 1889, 

 149, part (Jamaica); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, 107, part (Jamaica).— 

 RiDGWAY, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1890 (1891), pi. 17 (bird, nest, and eggs; 

 Jamaica). — Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 409, part (Jamaica). — 

 Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 277 (Jamaica).— Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 126 (Port Hen- 

 derson, Jamaica; descr. nest). — Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1892, 6, part 

 (Jamaica). — Lodge, Ibis, 1896, 503 (Jamaica; habits).^ — Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, 

 577 (Kingston, Jamaica; notes). 



[Mcllisuga] minima Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 257. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 84, part (Jamaica). — Mulsant, Ann. Soc. 

 TJnn. Lyon, n. s., xxii, 1876, 227, part (Jamaica). — Cory, List Birds West 

 Ind., 1885, 18, part (Jamaica). — Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1900, 142, part 

 (Jamaica). 



M[cllis7iga] minima Newton (A. and E.), Uandb. Jamaica, 1881, 108.- — Hartert, 

 Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 212, part (Jamaica). 



Zcphijrilis {Dyrinia) minima Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., ISfiO, 88, 

 part (Jamaica). 



[Iltllocharis] minima Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 150, no. 1941, part (Jamaica). 



Tmchilus minuhilus Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 73 (new name for " T. 

 minutus L. Gm.," i. e., T. minimus Linnaeus). 



Mcllisuga humilis Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 127; Illustr. P.inls Jam., 1849, 

 pi. 21.— March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. I'hila., 1863, 285 (Jamaica). 



Mcllisuga hum/ila Albreciit, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 201 (.Tamaica). 



Trorhilus pygmacus (not of Spix, 1824) Swainson, Birds of Brazil, Afex., etc., 

 [1841?], pi. 78. 



« Nine Pi)ecimcns. 



