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Lampornis viridis, Gould, Mon. Troch. vol. ii. pi. Ixxviii. ; 

 Tayl. Ibis, 1864, p. 169. 



Hub. Porto Rico [Taylor). 



This species seems to be entii'ely restricted to the Island of 

 Porto Rico, where it is by no means common ; and among collec- 

 tions of Trochilidaj it is one of the species generally absent. 



Lampornis dominicus. 



Trochilus dominicus, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 191 (1766), ? ; Gmel. 

 Syst. Nat. p. 489 (1788). 



Trochilus maryaritaceus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. p. 490 (1788), $ . 



Trochilus aurulentus, Vieill. Ois. Dor. pi. xii. (1802). 



Pohjtmus margaritaceus, Gray, Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 108, 

 sp. 13. 



Lampornis margaritaceus, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 72, sp. 5. 



Lampornis aurulerdus, Gould, Mon. Troch. vol. ii. pi. Ixxix. ; 

 Cass. Proc. Acad. Phil. 1860, p. 377. 



Lampornis virginalis, Gould, Mon. Troch. vol. ii. pi. Ixxx. 



Hah. St. Thomas [Riise, Cassin), St. Domingo, Porto Rico 

 [Bryant) . 



This is undoubtedly the species described by Linnaeus, in his 

 twelfth edition, as Trochilus dominicus; for, although it was a 

 female upon which he founded the species, the characters enu- 

 merated by him are too clear, particularly those of the tail, to 

 permit the supposition that some other bird was intended. Be- 

 sides, the account given by Brisson, whom Linnaeus followed, 

 is very full, and shows plainly that the female of the species 

 generally called Lampornis aurulentus was well known to that 

 author ; and it is described by him in his ' Ornithology,^ vol. iii. 

 p. 673. There is no other species which possesses a similarly 

 coloured tail inhabiting the West-Indian Islands ; and it would 

 appear that there is less doubt about the rightful appellation of 

 this species than there is about many of this family mentioned 

 by the earlier writers. 



I have said there is no other species of Humming-bird in- 

 habiting the West Indies which may be taken for this. It will 

 be noticed that I have placed among the synonyms Mr. Gould^s 

 Lampornis virginalis, as I have not been able to satisfy myself 



