BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 587 



Best. Soc. N. n., 18G7, '.)f) (Santo Domingo).— Mulsant and Verreaux, Ui^t. 

 Nat. Oi8.-Mouch., Suppl., pi. 46, figs. 1, 2. 



T[rochUus] mininius Vieillot, Tab. Enc. M6th., ii, 1822, 5G8, ])art. 



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



ODiismija minima (not Trochilus 7ninimus Linnoeus) Lesson, Hiat. Nat. Ois.- 

 Mouch., 1829, pp. xxxii, 213, pi. 79 (Santo Domingo); Index Gen. et Synop. 

 Troch., 1832, p. xxvii (Santo Domingo). 



Mellisuga minima Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. ii, Nov., 1851 (vol. iii, 1861, text to 

 pi. 133), part (Santo Domingo); Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 87, part (Santo 

 Domingo). — Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 6, part (Santo Domingo); 

 Troch. Enum., 1855, 3, pi. 680, fig. 4490, part (Santo Domingo).— SALLit, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 233 (Santo Domingo). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 

 1862, 297, part (synonymy only).— Elliot, Ibis, 1872, 354, part (Santo 

 Domingo; synon.; crit.); Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 103, part (Santo 

 D(miingo). — Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-jMouch., iv, livr. 2, 

 1877, 82, part (Santo Domingo).— Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 92, 

 pi. (22), fig. 6; Auk, iii, 1886, 354, part (Santo Domingo); Birds West Ind., 

 1889, 149 (Santo Domingo); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 103, 107, part (Santo 

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

 Domingo). — Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 6, part (Haiti and Santo 

 Domingo). — Cheurie, Contr. Orn. San Dom., 1896, 18 (song). — Chrlsty, 

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



[Mellisuga] minima Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 84, part 

 (Haiti). — Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 227, part (Haiti). — 

 Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 18, part (Haiti). — Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 

 1900, 142, part (Haiti). 



M[€llisugd\ minima Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 212, part (Haiti and 

 Santo Domingo). 



Zephyritis {Dyriniu) minima Mulsant and Verreaux, Claesif. Troch., 1866, 88, 

 part. 



[Hylorharis] minima Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 150, no. 1941, part (Santo Domingo). 



Trochilus rieUoti Shaw, Gen. Zool., viii, pt. 1, 1812, 347 (based on ''UOiseau- 

 mouchc a ventre gris Viell., pi. 53." Santo Domingo). 



Ornismia catharinx Salle, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., Oct., 1849,498 (Santo Domingo). 



Genus STELLULA Gould. 



Stellula Gould, Intrud. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 90. (Type, Trorhilus calliope 



Gould.) 

 Stellura (emendation?) Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1865, 88; Hist. 



Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, 1877, 87. (Type, Trochilus calliope Gould.) 



Small Trochilidai (longtli about 65-75 mm.) resembling Atthis but 

 (lifTering in longer tenth ])rimary, relatively shorter and dilTerently 

 shaped and differently colored tail, with siibspatulatc middle rectrices 

 (in both sexes), and in the very narrow and mucli elongated throat 

 ("gorget") feathers of tlie a(hdt male. 



Bill about as long as liead or sliglitly longer, slender, straight, nearly 

 terete; culmen rounded but at extreme base contracted into a rather 

 distinct ridge; tomia smootli; mandil)lc with the usual lateral median 

 groove or sulcus. Nasal opercuhun covered by the ap})ressed frontal 

 feathering, which anteriorly extends considerably beyond nostrils, 

 forming a very short obtuse })oint or autia on cacli side of culmen. 



