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lars, wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts bright metallic 

 bluish green or greenish blue; taiL metallic greenish blue (decidedly- 

 more bluish than back, etc.), the lateral rectrices blackish terminally; 

 remiges dull black or dusky, faintly glossed with violet; chest grayish 

 white, passing posteriorly into more decided gray on median portion 

 of breast and abdomen ; sides and flanks metallic bluish green, more 

 or less intermixed with grayish; under tail-coverts grayish white 

 with a subtenninal spot of metallic bluish green; femoral tufts and 

 tuft on each side of rump white; bill dull black; iris dark brown; 

 feet dusky; length (skins), 55-62 (58); wing, 27.5-29 (28.4); tail, 

 16-16.5 (16.2); exposed culmen, 10.« 



Adult female. — Above metallic bluish green, duller on pileum, more 

 bluish posteriori}^ ; middle rectrices bright metallic greenish blue, the 

 remaining rectrices bright greenish blue basally (for more than half 

 their length), black terminally or subterminally, the two or three 

 outermost tipped with white (broadly on lateral rectrix); remiges 

 dusky, faintly glossed with violaceous; superciliary, auricular, and 

 suborbital regions brownish gray (nearly drab-gray) ; a blackish loral 

 spot or streak and a small whitish postocular spot; under parts pale 

 brownish gray, fading into white on anal region and under tail-coverts ; 

 femoral tufts white; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 

 57-66 (62); wing, 32-34.5 (33.1); tail, 16.5-19.5 (17.9); exposed cul- 

 men, 10.5-11.5 (11.1).* 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult female, but usually more 

 bluish above. 



Island of Cuba (Cardenas ; Santiago; Bayate; Holquin; Figuabas). 

 Orthorhynchus helenx Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 70, pi. 10, fig. 2 

 (Cardenas, Cuba; ex Gundlach, manuscript). — Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., vii, 1860, 306. 

 Orthorhynchus helenae Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 414. 

 [Orthorhynchus] helenae Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 334. 

 Calypte heleme Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xi, May, 1856; vol. iii, 1861, pi. 136; 

 Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 88.— Gundlach, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 

 1866, 291; Journ. fur Orn., 1874, 144 (habits); Contr. Orn. Cuba, 1876, 109, 

 272; Auk, viii, 1891, 187 (crit.; habits, etc.); Orn. Cub., ed. 1895, 132.— 

 Elliot, Ibis, 1872, 354 (synonymy); Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 108.— 

 MuLSANXand Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 1, 1877, 77, pi. 105; 

 Suppl., pi. 7.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 354; Birds West Ind., 1889, 149; Cat. 

 West Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, 107, 128, 144.— Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 

 1892, 405.— Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, ii, 1892, 6.— Ridgway, Man. N. 

 Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 598. 

 C[alypte] helenae Heine, Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 208. 

 C[alypte] helenas Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 



453 —Ridgway, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1890 (1891), 334 (diagnosis, etc.). 

 [Calypte] helense Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 84. — Cory, List 

 Birds West Ind., 1885, 18. 



a Four specimens. 6 Nine specimens. 



