52 Gene?-a of Humminy Birds. 



La Microchere a petit bee, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 vol. Ill, p. 137. 



Habitat. — (losta-Rica, Nicaragua. 



Mate.— Grown silky snow-white. Upperside shining reddish- 

 purple. Throat, breast, abdomen and tlanks, dark reddish-pur- 

 ple, slightly greenish on chin. Undertail-coverts white. Median 

 rectrices light bronze, blackish at tips ; lateral white at base, 

 rest brownish black edged with white. Wings purple. Bill 

 black. 



Total length, 2 iin.: Wings,! |. Tail, J. Gulmen, i-. 



Female. — Upperside bronzy-green. Underside white. 

 Middle rectrices bronze-green, rest white with a subteruiinal 

 black bar. Bill black. 



It is a very rare species. I have only two specimens, one col- 

 lected by M"" Belt at Ghontales (Nicaragua), and the other col- 

 lected by M'Zeledon at Limon (Gosta-Rica). 



Genus XXVI. Bellona, Muls and Verr. Glass. Troch., 

 1865, p. 75. 



Type : T. cristatus, Linne. 



Bill straight about as long as the head. Feathers of the fore- 

 head covering one half the length of culnien. Nostrils hidden. 

 Head covered with a broad pointed crest. Underside dull. 

 Wiugs long. Tail short and rounded. Feet small. Tarsi 

 naked. Sexes unlike. 



Habitat. — West Indies. 

 75. Bellona cristata, Linne. Syst. Nat., 1766, vol. I, p. 102. 



Trochilus puniceiis , Gmel. Syst. Nat., 1788, t. I, p. 497. 



Mellisuga cristata.. Gray. Gen. Birds., vol. I, p. 113. 



L'Oiseaii mouche huppe, Less. Ois. Mou., 1820, p. 113. 



Ornismy a cristata, Less. Troch., 1831, p. 20, 



Orthoriiynchus cristatus, Bon. Gonsp. Gen. Av., 1830, 

 p. 83. 



Ori/iorhync/ms ornatus, Gould. Mon. Troch., vol. IV, p. 206. 



Blue Crest, Gould. Mon. Troch., vol. IV, p. 206. 



La Bellone a Jmppe bleue, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 t. Ill, p. 194. 



Habitat. — Saint- Vincent, Barbadoes, Martinique, Grenada. 



Male. — Forehead and crown metallic golden-green changing 

 into deep purplish blue on the lengthened crest feathers, which 

 in some specimens are amply furnished and extend to the mid- 

 dle of back. Upperside dark green, nearly black on sides and 

 back of crest. Tail purplish-black with a greenish tinge on 



