BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 663 



(skins), 77-82 (80); wing, 45.5-51.5 (48.4); tail, 27-30.5 (28.8); 

 exposed cubnen, 9-11 (9.6).^^ 



Adult female. — Above metalUc green, bronze-green, or bronze, 

 including middle rectrices, the latter becoming dusky terminally; 

 remaining rectrices black, faintly glossed with purplish, the three 

 outer pairs broadly tipped with pale gray, and with basal portion 

 dull grayish glossed with bronze-green or greenish bronze, the pair 

 next to middle pair similar but without gray tip and with basal 

 portion more extensively greenish or bronzy; remiges dusky, faintly 

 glossed with purplish; under parts pale gray, slightly darker laterally, 

 especially on sides of neck, the chin and median portion of throat 

 sometimes inchning to dull whitish; bill, etc., as in adult male; length 

 (skins), 80-83 (81); wing, 45-48.5 (46.6); tail, 28-31.5 (29.3); exposed 

 cuhnen, 9.5-12 (10.9).^ 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult male, but without crest, the 

 pileum dark and rather dull metallic bluish green. 



Island of Barbados, Lesser Antilles. 



[Trochilus] cristatus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 121 (based on Crested 

 Humming Bird, Avis mellivora, minor, cristata Edwards, Nat. Hist., i, pi. 37); 

 ed. 12, i, 1766, 192.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 498.— Latham, 

 Index Orn., i, 1790, 317. 



Trochilus cristatus Audebert and Vieillot, Ois. Dores, i, 1801, 91-93, pis. 47, 

 48, part.— Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 83.— Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hiet. 

 Nat., vii, 1817, 365, pi. B. 19, fig. 3, part? — Schomburgk, Hist. Barbados, 

 1848, 681. 



T[rochilus] cristatus Swainson, Birds Brazil, etc., pt. 2 (1834-35?), pi. 21. 



Omismya cristata Lesson, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., 1829, pp. xxxix, 113, pis. 31, 

 32; Les Trochilidees, 1831, 20, pi. 4 ("Santo Domingo"); Trait6 d'Orn., 1831, 

 285; Index Gen. et Synop. Troch., 1832, p. xxx, part ("Trinidad")? 



M[ellisuga'] cristata Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 113. 



[Orthorhynchus] cristatus Bonaparte, Cousp. Av., i, 1850, 83. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 88, part (Barbados). 



Orthorhynchus cristatus Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 11; Troch. Enum., 

 1855, 9, pi. 807, figs. 4876, 4877.— Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xiii. May, 1857; 

 vol. iv, 1861, pi. 205; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 116.— Pelzeln, Orn. 

 Bras., iv, Abth., 1870, 408 ("Brazil" on authority of Swainson). — Elliot, 

 Ibis, 1872, 355, part (Barbados; synonymy; crit.).— Salvin, Ibis, 1873, 334, 

 in text (Barbados). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. See. Lond., 1874, 175 (Barbados). — 

 Feilden, Ibis, 1889, 487 (Barbados; habits; descr. nest and eggs). 



0[rthorhynchus] cristatus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 61 (Barbados). 



Orthorhyncus cristatus cristatus Oberholser, Smithson. Misc. Coll., xlviii. May 

 13, 1905, 60. 



Bellona cristata Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 75; Hist. Nat. 

 Ois.-Mouch., iii, 1876, 193, part (Barbados), pi. 89; Suppl., pi. 21.— Elliot, 

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

 1886, 356, part (Barbados); vi, 1889, 218, part (Barbados); Ibis, 1886, 472 

 (Barbados); Birds West Ind., 1889, 151, part (Barbados); Cat. West Ind. 

 Birds, 1892, 13, 107, 144, part (Barbados).- Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xvi, 1892, 353, part (Barbados).— Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, ii, 1892, 52, 

 part (Barbados). 



o Ten speciniene. *> Six specimens. 



