J e2 Cory on the Birds of the ^ West Indies. 



smoke brown ; iinderparts dull black, showing a faint purplish 

 tinge; bill and feet black. 



Female: — Upper parts bronze-green ; underparts grayish-brown ; 

 central tail-feathers bronze-green, rest of tail-feathers brownish, 

 tipped with ash on the outer feathers. 



Length, 2.90; wing, 2; tail, 1.35; bill, .40. 

 Habitat. Santa Lucia, Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Martinique, 

 and St. Bartholomew. 



Bellona exilis (Gmel.). 



Trochilus exilis Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 4S4 (17SS).— Lath. Ind. Orn. I, p. 



310 (1790). 

 Trochilus cristatellus Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. p. 39 (1790). 

 Mellisuga exilis Gray, Gen. Bds. I, p. 113 (1844). 

 Orthorhynchus chlorolophus Bp. Consp. L p- S3 (1850). 

 Orthorhynchus exilis Reich. Aufz. Colib. p. 11 (1853).— Bp. R^^'- ^I^o- 



Zool. 1854, p. 256. — A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, P- 141-— Gould, 



Mon. Troch. IV, pi. 207 (1861). — Taylor, Ibis, 1S64, p. 170. — 



Elliot, Ibis, 1872, p. 355. — Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, pp. 234, 



458, 487 (1S78).— Grisdale, Ibis, 1882, p. 4S6. 

 Trochilus {Orthorhytichus) exilis Sundev. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. For. 



1869, p. 600. 

 Bellona exilis MuLs. Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch. Ill, p. 196 (1S76).— Elliot, 



Mon. Troch. p. 179 (187S).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 18 (1S85). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Forehead and crest bright golden-green, becoming 

 darker green at the tip; upper parts dark green, tinged with bronze 

 on the upper tail-coverts; throat smoke-brown, becoming dull 

 purplish-black on the belly; tinged with green on the sides and 

 flanks; central tail-feathers dull green, rest of tail-feathers dark 

 purple. 



Female: — Upper plumage dark green ; underparts smoke-gray, 

 tinged with green on the sides; wing-coverts bronzy-green ; wings 

 purplish-brown; two central tail-feathers dull green; outer tail- 

 feathers tipped with gray. 



Length, 3.40; wing, 2.05; tail, 1.45; bill, .55. 

 Habitat. Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Dominica, St. Croix, 

 Montserrat, Nevis, and Martinique. 



Genus Sporadinus Bp. 

 Sporadintis Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1854, p. 255. 



Sporadinus elegans (Vieill.). 



Trochilus elegans Vieill. Ois. Dor. I, p. 32 (1802). 

 Ornismya swainsouii l^KSS. Ois. Mouch. pp. 17, 197 (1829). 



