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deeper laterally, paler on chin and throat; bill, etc., as in adult male; 

 length (skin), 83; wing, 47; tail, 28; exposed culmen, 12.'^ 



Island of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles; occasional straggler to 

 Martinique? ^ 



Orthorhynchus ornatus Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xxiv, Sept., 1861; vol. iv, 1861, 

 pi. 206 (locality unknown; coll. J. Gould); Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 

 117. — Elliot, Ibis, 1872, 355 ("Martinique and Santa Lucia" — error?).— 

 Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 192, 487 (St. Vincent).— Lister, 

 Ibis, 1880, 42 (St. Vincent; habits). 



Orthorhyncus ornatus Oberholser, Smithson. Misc. Coll., xlviii. May 13, 1905, 60. 



[Trodiilus] ornatus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 148, no. 1903. 



Bellona ornatus Cory, Auk, vi, July, 1889, 218 (St. Vincent; crit.). 



Bellona ornata Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Oct. 27, 1880, 316 (St. Vin- 

 cent).— Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 354 (St. Vincent). 



[Bellona] ornata Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 142 (St. Vincent). 



Bellona exilis ornatus Cory, Cat. West Ind. Bii'ds, 1892, 13, 107, 134, 144 (St. 

 Vincent). 



Bellona exilis ornata Clark (A. H.), Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxxii, 1905, 275 

 (St. Vincent; descr. nest and eggs). 



B[€llona] cristata ornata Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 213. 



Bellona cristata (not Trodiilus cristatus Linnaeus) Mulsant and Verreaux, 

 Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iii, livr. 3, 1876, 193, part (St. Vincent).— Elliot, 

 Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 178, part (St. Vincent).— Cory, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 356, part (St. Vincent); Ibis, 1886, 473 (St. Vincent); Birds West Ind., 

 1889, 151, part (St. Vincent). 



Orthorhynchus cristatus Elliot, Ibis, 1872, 355, part (St. Vincent; synonymy; 

 crit.). 



[Orthorhynchus] cristatus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 88, part 

 (St. Vincent). 



Bellona hectoris Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 75. 



Bellona superba Boucard, The Hum. Bird, i, June 1, 1891, 43 (St. Vincent; 

 coll. A. Boucard); Gen. Hum. Birds, 1892, 53 (St. Vincent). 



ORTHORHYNCUS CRISTATUS CRISTATUS (Linnaeus). 



BLUE-CRESTED HUMMING BIRD. 



Adult male. — Forehead and crown brilliant metallic green, changing 

 (according to inclination of light) from pure emerald green to golden 

 green; occipital crest (abruptly) rich metalhc violet; hindneck and 

 sides of head behind eyes dark and rather dull metallic bluish green; 

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

 dark metallic grass green; tail black, glossed with purphsh bronze; 

 remiges dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; loral, suborbital, and 

 auricular regions and under parts sooty blackish, fading into sooty 

 gray on chin and throat; femoral tufts pale grayish or whitish; bill 

 dull black; iris dark brown; feet grayish brown or dusky; length 



o One specimen. 



& A specimen in the Bangs collection said to be from Martinique is typical of this 

 form, and some specimens from Santa Lucia approach it more or less. 



