!lS. BF.LLOXA, '^i>''> 



1 . Bellona cristata. 



Crested Hummincj Bird, Uchv. Nat. Hist. i. pi. 37. 

 f)iseau-Moiic'lie Huppt?, Buff. Hist. Xrd. Ois. vi. p. 22. 

 Oiaeau-Mouche Hupp(5 de Cayenne, IfAub. PI. Enl. 227. f. 1. 

 Mellisug-a cristata, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 714, pi. 37. f. 2. 

 Trochiliis cristatus, Xi«H. iS>/«f. Nat. i. p. 192; Gm. Si/st. Nat. i 



p. 498; Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 317 ; Less. Ind. Gen. Troch. p. xxx ; 



Schomh. Hist. Barb. p. 681 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 147. 

 Trochilus pimiceus, Gm. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 497. 

 Trochilus pileatua, Lnt/i. Ind. Orn. p. 318 ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. 



N. vii. p. 365 ; id. Eiic. Meth. p. .566 ? 

 Oiseau-Mouclie huppe bleu, And. Ois. Dor. i. p. 154, pi. 63 (?). 

 Ornismva cristata, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, pp. xxxix, 113, 



pis. 31, 32. 

 Orthorliynchus cristatiis, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 83 ; id. Bev. Zool. 1854, 



p. 256; Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 11 ; id. Troch. Enum. p. 9, pi. 807. 



ft". 4876-7 ; Gonld, 3Ion. Troch. iv. pi. 205 (May 1857) ; id. Litr. 



Troch. p. 1 16 ; Cab. ^- Heine, Mas. Hein. iii. p. 61 : Elliot, Ibis, 1872, 



p. 355 ; Salv. Ibis, 1873, p. 334 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 175 ; Lawr. 



Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. pp. 272, 487. 

 Bellona cristnta., Muls. 8r Verr. Class. Troch. ^. 75 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. 



Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. 193, pi. 89; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. 



p. 222; Elliot, S^/n. Troch. -p. 177 ; Cory, Ibis, 1886, p.' 472 ; id. 



B. West Ind. p. 151 (pt.). 

 Orthorhynchus emigrans, Lawr. Ami. Lye. N. Y. Ac. Sc. i. p. 50. 



Adult male. Upper surface dark grass-green ; forehead and 

 anterior portion of the crown glittering green ; posterior portion 

 and elongated feathers of the ci-est glittering violet-blue ; sides of 

 the neck and under sui-face smoky black, paler on the chin and 

 throat ; imder tail-coverts and tail purple-black ; bill black. Total 

 length about 3'7 inches, wing 1-9.5, tail 1-1, bill O'T. 



Female. Upper surface including the crown shining dark gras.s- 

 green ; under surface smoky ; central rectrices wholly and the rest 

 at the base shining grass-green, the latter with a wide subterminal 

 steel-blue band and tipped with grey. 



Hah. West Indies : Barbados, Grenadines, and Grenada Islands. 



a. J ad. ; b. $ Barbados, West Indies. vSir R. Schomburgk. 

 ad. sk. 



c. c? ad. st. Barbados. Sir R. Schomburgk. 



d. cJad.sk. Barbados (T'wr/i-pr). Gould Coll. 



e. S ad. ; /. $ Barbados. Gould Coll. 

 ad. sk. 



g. S ad. sk. Barbados (Briggs). Sclater Coll. 



h. (S ad. ,sk. Grenada, West Indies (F. A. Sclater Coll. 



Ober). 

 i,j. S ad. sk. Mustigne, Grenadine Is., W. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



I., June (Mrs. H. H. Smith). 

 k. S ad. sk. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/- w. S ad. sk. Venezuela ? ? {e.r G. N. Salvin-Godman, 



Lnwrenxje). Gould, & Sclater 



Colls. 

 (Typical of O. emigrans.) 

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