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SYNOPSIS OF THE HUMMING-BIRDS. 



species having strairjld hills, but evidently without any intention of making it the 

 type of Lacepede's genus, because he also includes among the straljld hill hinh, 

 as belonging to OrlJiorJti/ncJnts, the Lopliornis ornattis, Cavipijlopterus larfjipennis, 

 Florisuga meUivora, and Discura lon(jicauda. Under these circumstances, I do not 

 see how it is possible to retain the term Ortliorhynchus for any group of humming- 

 birds; it should be rejected entirely as many another term has been, and that of 

 Bellona proposed by M. Mulsant for cridatns and exilis is the one that should be 

 adopted. 



Genus XCI.— BELLONA. 



Bellona, Muls. and Verr., Class. Trocli. (186.")), p. 75. 



Ch. Bill straight, about as long as the 

 head: feathers of the forehead projecting 

 forward, covering one-half the length of the 

 cuhnen. Nostrils hidden. Head covered 

 with a broad, pointed crest. Wings rather 

 long. Tail rounded. Feet small, tarsi naked. 

 Sexes dissimilar. 



Ranr/e. Islands of the West Indies. 



Two species are allotted to this genus. 



Type. 

 T. cristatus, Linn. 



Fig. 99. 



Stllona, crUtata. d* • JJarbatloes. Verreaxix. 



-Eei/ to the species. 



A. Crest witli the frontal half golden-grceii, rest blue. 



B. Crest golden-green, tips grass-green. 



1. B. cridata. 



2. B. exilis. 



1. Bellona cristata. 



Trochilus cristatus, Linn., Syst. Nat., vol. i, p. 192 (1766).— SriioMB.. Hist. Barb., p. C81.— Id., Omel. Syst. 



Nat., vol. i, p. 498 (1788).— Lath., Ind. Orn., torn, i, p. 317 (1790).— Swains., B. Braz., pi. 21. 

 Trochilus puntceus, G.mei.., Syst. Nat., torn, i, p. 497 (1788). 

 Trochilus pileatus. Lath., Lid. Ornith., vol. i, p. 318 (1790). 

 Mdlisiiga crialata, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 113, sp. 98. 

 L'oiseau mouche huppi, Le.ss., Ois. Mouch. (1829), p. 113, pis. .-sxxi, x.xxii. 

 Ornismya cristata, Less., Troch., p. 20, pi. 4 (1831).— Id., Gen. and Syn. Trocb., p. xxx.— Id., Tiait. Ornith., 



p. 285. 

 Orthorhynchus cristatus, Bon., Consp. Gen. Av., vol. i, p. 83 (1850).— Reioh., Aufz. der Colib., p. 11 (1853).— 



Id., Troch. Euum. (1855), p. 9.— Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (1854), p. 256.— Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iv, 



pi. 205.— Id., Intr. Troch., octavo ed., p. 116 (1861).— Cab. and Uein., Mus. Hein Th., iii (I860), p. Gl.— 



Elliot, Ibis (1872), p. 3.55. 

 Orthorhynchus ornatus, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iv, pi. 200.- Id., lutr. Troch., octavo ed., p. 117 (18C1).— 



Elliot, Ibis (1872), p. 355. 

 Bellona cristata, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Moneh., torn, iii, p. 193 (1876). 



Hah. Islands of St. Vincent, Barbadoes, Martinique, St. Lucia. 



Male. Forehead and crown golden-green, changing into deep blue on the 

 lengthened crest feathers. Upper surface dark grass-green, darkest on the back of 

 the neck. Wings purplish-brown. Throat smoky-brown. Under surfoce purplish- 



