J CO Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 



Sp. Char. il/«/c.— Head, throat, and elongated featlers of the neck 

 metallic red, almost pink in some lights; upper parts greenish-blue, 

 becoming steel-blue on the tail; breast grayish-white; belly and 

 flanks greenish; wings purplish-brown. 



Female: — Head dull brown ; back green, shading into blue on the 

 lower part; underparts grajish-vvhite ; tail bluish-green, outer 

 feathers tipped with white. 



Length (skin), 2.50; wing, i.::5; tail, .So; bill, .45. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Genus Doricha Reich. 

 Doricha Reich. Aufz. der Colib. p. 12 (1S53). 



Doricha evelynae (Bourc). 



Calothorax evelynce Gray, Gen. Bds. I, p. no (1S44).— Reich. Aufz. 



Colib. p. 13 (1853).— Gould, Mon. Troch. HI, pi. 156 (1S61). 

 Troc/iilus evelynce BouRC. P. Z. S. 1847, p. 44. 

 Callothorax evillina Bp. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1854, p. 257. 

 Lucifer evelince Rh:ich. Troch. Enum. p. 10 (1S55). 

 Trochilus bahamensis Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 106 



(1859)- 

 Doricha evelyncB Gould, Intr. Troch. octavo ed. p. 95 (1861). — Elliot, 

 Ibis, 1872, p. 353.— MuLs. Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch. IV, p. 38 (1877). 

 Elliot, Mon. Troch. p. 125 (1878).— Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 108 

 (1880) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 18 (1S85). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above green, showing slight golden reflections on 

 the back, with the tips of the feathers, in some specimens, bluish; 

 head darker; throat beautiful purple-violet, below which is a band 

 of white; underparts green, mixed with rufous, shading into white 

 on the flanks; crissum pale rufous white ; wings brownish purple; 

 tail appearing black, very dark purple in some lights ; outer feathers 

 with faint terminal spot of rufous, second with mner web, and third 

 with inner and basal half of outer web cinnamon; bill and feet 

 black. 



Female: — Purple gorget wanting and replaced by dull white, with 

 a slight tinge of rufous; upper parts paler than in the male; sides 

 cinnamon, becoming brightest under the wings; central feathers of 

 the tail bright green, the rest cinnamon; an oblique purplish band 

 on the tips of the fourth feathers. 



Length, 3.40; wing, 1.70; tail, 1.40; tarsus, .15; bill, .70. 

 Habitat. Bahamas. 



Doricha lyrura Gould. 



Doricha lyrura Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. IV, pp. Iii, 112 

 (1869).— Elliot, Ibis, 1S72, p. 354.— Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium 



