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BIJLLEWN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



[Bellona] cristata Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s., xxii, 1876, 222, part 



(Barbados). — Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 142, part (Barbados). 

 [Trochilus] puniceus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 497 (based on Crested Brown 



Humming-bird Lsitham., Synopsis, i, pt. 2, 784). 

 [Trochilus] pileatus Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 318 (new name for T. puniceus 



Gmelin). 

 Trochilus pileatus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 365 (cites Ois. 



Dor&, pi. 63, fig. 1). 

 T[rochilus] pileatus Vieillot, Tabl. Enc. Meth., ii, 1822, 566. 

 Orthorhynchus exilis (not Trochilus exilis Gmelin) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1874, 175 (Barbados). 

 B[ellona] cristata {typica) Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 213. 

 Bellona cristatus emigrans (not Orthorhynchus emigrans Lawrence) Clark (A. H.), 



Auk, xxii, April, 1905, 216 (Barbados). 

 Bellona cristata emigrans Clark (A. H.), Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxxii, 1905, 276 



(Barbados; descr. nest and eggs). 



ORTHORHYNCUS CRISTATUS EMIGRANS (Lawrence). 



GRENADA BLUE-CHEST. 



Similar to 0. c. cristatus, but adult male with crest averaging more 

 bluish violet and throat paler gray; adult female with under parts 

 decidedly paler (grayish white instead of light gray). 



AcMt maZe.— Length (skins), 75-93 (82); wing, 47. .5-51 (49.1); 

 tail, 26.5-30.5 (29.1); exposed cubnen, 9.5-11 (10.4). « 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 77-83 (81); wing, 43-47 (45.2); 

 tail, 27-29.5 (27.7); exposed culmen, 12-13.5 (12.7).'' 



Islands of Grenada, Union, Carriacou, and Mustique, Lesser 

 Antilles. 



Orthorhynchus emigrans Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci., i, 1878, 50 ("Venezuela," 



i. e., Grenada?; coll. G. N. Lawrence). 

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



13, 1905, 60. 

 Bellona emigrans Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, sig. i, July, 1892, 54 (Venezuela?; 



Grenada; crit.). 

 Orthorhynchus cristatus (not Trochilus cristatus Linnaeus) Lawrence, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 272, 487 (Grenada). 



a Twenty specimens. 



b Ten specimens, from Grenada. 



I-ocality. 



MALES. 



Ten adult males from Grenada 49.1 29.3 10.5 



Three adult males from "Venezuela'' (probably Grenada!) 49 29. 8 10. 7 



One adult male from Union Island 49 29 10. 5 



One adult male from Carriacou 48 28 10.5 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



