JaS Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 



Thalurania bicolor (Gmei..). 



Trochilus bicolor Gmel. Sjst. Nat. I. p. 496 (17S8). — Vieill. Ois. Dor. p. 



75 (1S02). 

 Oniisinya wagleri 'L'ESS). Hist. Ois. Mouch. p. 203 (1S29). 

 Hylocharis -wagleri Gray, Gen. Bds. I, p. 114 (1844). 

 Thalurania ivagleri Bp. Consp. I, p. 77 (1850). — Reich. Aufz. Colib. p. 



7 (1853)- — Cab. & Hein. Mus. Hein. Ill, p. 24 (i860). — Gould, 



Men. Troch. II, pi. 109 (1S61). — Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. 



p. S3 (1S73). — Salv. & Elliot, Ibis, 1S73, p. 360. — Lawr. Ann. N. 



Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 46 (1878) ; ib. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, pp. 61, 4S7 



(187S). 

 Thalura7iia bicolor Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 130 (1869). — Elliot, Men. 



Troch. p. 102 (1878).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 17 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Entire head and throat deep blue, but very slightly 

 metallic; back dark green; breast and abdomen metallic golden- 

 green; tail-coverts greenish-blue; tail steel blue; wings brown; 

 upper mandible black ; under mandible flesh-color, tipped with 

 black. 



Female: — Upper surface green, showing slight bronze reflections ; 

 underparts dull white, marked with green on the flanks and side*;; 

 outer tail-feathers tipped with white; rest of tail-feathers green, 

 broadly marked with blue on the terminal portion. 



Length, 3.80; wing, 2.35; tail, 1.70; bill, .60. 

 Habitat. Dominica. 



Genus Trochilus Linn. 

 Trochilus Linn^us, Syst. Nat. I, p. 1S9 (1766). 



Trochilus colubris Linn. 



Trochilus colubris Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 191 (1766). — Cab. J. f. O. 1856, 



p. 98 (Cuba). — GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 291 (1S66) ; 



ib. J. f. O. 1S74, p. 141 (Cuba) ; ib. 1878, p. 159 (Porto Rico) ; ib. 



Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 221 (1S78) (Porto Rico). — 



Elliot, Mon. Troch. p. 105 (1878) (Bahamas).- — Cory, List Bds. 



W. L p. 18 (1885). 

 Orthorhynchus colubris D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 126 



(1S40). 

 Melisuga colubris Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 306 (i860) 



(Cuba). 

 Recorded from Bahamas, Cuba, and Porto Rico. 



Genus Mellisuga Briss. 

 Mellisuga Brisson, Orn. Ill, p. 695 (1760). 



