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(?)[Trochih(s] cristateUus Latham, Index Orn., Suppl., 1801, p. xxxix (no locality 

 given; bused on Gilt-crested Ilummingbird L&tham, Synopsis, Suppl., ii, 172). 

 (?) Trochilus cristateUus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 352. 

 Orthorhynchus chlorolophus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 83 (Martinique). — 



AuDEBERT and Vieillot, Ois. Dores, i, 1801, 91-93, pis. 47, 48 (Martinique). 

 Trochilus cristatus (not of Linnaeus) Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, d'llist. Nat., vii, 



1817, 365, pi. B. 19, fig. 3 ("Cayenne;" Martinique; Guadeloupe). 

 T[rocMlus] cristatus Vieillot, Tabl. Enc. Meth., ii, 1822, 565. 

 Ornismya cristaia Lesson, Les Trochilidees, 1831, 153, pi. 58 (Martinique); Index 



Gen. et Synop. Troeh., 1832, p. xxx ("Trinidad;" Martinique). 

 Bellona cristaia Elliot, Classif. and Synop. Trocli., 1879, 178, part (Martinique; 



Santa Lueia).— Cory, Ibis, 1886, 474 (Desii-ade; Marie Galante), 475 (Grand 



Terre); Auk, iv, 1887, 96 (Martinique). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1889, 395 (Santa Lucia).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, 1890, 130 



(Santa Lucia). 

 Orthorhynchus ornatus (not of Gould) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 272 



(Santa Lucia; crit.). — Semper, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, 651 (Santa 



Lucia; habits). 



ORTHORHYNCUS EXILIS ORNATUS (Gould). 



ST. VINCENT BLUE-CREST. 



Similar to 0. e. exilis, but terminal portion of crest extensively 

 and abruptly blue; similar also to 0. cristatus, but adult male with 

 blue of crest much more restricted, and greenish blue instead of 

 violet-blue. 



Adult male. — Forehead and whole crown very bright metallic 

 green or golden, passing into more bluish green posteriorly, the 

 longer feathers of the crest bright metallic blue or greenish blue; 

 hindneck and sides of head behind eyes and beneath crest dark 

 metallic green, appearing nearly black when viewed from in front; 

 back, scapulars, wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts metallic 

 bronze-green or greenish bronze; tail black, glossed with purplish 

 bronze; remiges dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; loral, subor- 

 bital, and auricular regions and under parts of body (including under 

 tail-coverts) sooty blackish (the sides of breast faintly glossed with 

 green), fading into sooty gray on chin and throat; femoral tufts 

 whitish; bill (hdl black or dusky; iris dark brown; feet grayish 

 bro^\'n or (hisky; length (skins), 77-93 (83); wing, 47-51 (48.1); tail, 

 26.5-31 (28.9); exposed culmen, 9-11 (10.2).« 



Adult female. — Above metallic bronze-green or gi*eenish bronze, 

 including middle rectrices; other rectrices blackish or purplish black 

 terminally or subterminally, the two or three outer ones (on each 

 side) rather broadly tipped with light brownish gray and with basal 

 portion rather dull metallic greenish or bronzy, the one next to 

 middle pair witli grecmsii or bronzy at base more extended; remiges 

 dusky, faintly, glossed with violaceous; under parts deep sooty gray, 



a Eiglit specimens. 



