246 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



95. Calypte helenae (Lembeye). Helena Hummingbird. 



(?) "Black-throated Hummer?" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 

 (I. of Pines). — Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 75, and XXVIII, 1911, 12 (I. of 

 Pines), 113 (West McKinley). 



Ten specimens: Caleta Grande and Los Indies. 



Mr. Read's records above quoted, so he writes me, presumably 

 refer to this diminutive species, which has not heretofore been recorded 

 from the Isle of Pines. Mr. Link found it tolerably common in April 

 and May at Caleta Grande and Los Indios, feeding among the red 

 blossoms of the Jatropha glaiicovirens. Between this species and the 

 Ricord Emerald a great antipathy exists, the former being driven off 

 from its feeding-grounds by the other whenever they come together. 

 The series secured includes but one adult male, which I am unable to 

 distinguish in any way from specimens collected in eastern Cuba; 

 the females from the two islands are also precisely alike. Most of 

 the published records for Cuba seem to pertain to the eastern part of 

 the island. 



96. Riccordia ricordii ricordii (Gervais). Ricord Emerald. 



Orthorhynchus ricordii Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 427 (Nueva Gerona, 



fide Gundlach). 

 Riccordia ricordii Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 203 (Los Almacigos 



aiid Santa Fe; habits). — Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 190, and XXVIII, 1911, 



12 (I. of Pines); XXVII, 1910, 61 (I. of Pines; descr. ; habits). 

 "Ricord's Hummer" Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, 11 (Nuevas River), 113 



(West McKinley); XXX, 1913, 125 (Santa Barbara), 130 (I. of Pines). 

 Riccordia ricordii ricordii Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 191 1, 543 



(Los Almacigos and Santa Fe, ex Bangs & Zappey; meas.). — Read, Bird-Lore, 



XV, 1913, 45 (Santa Barbara). 



Seventeen specimens: Los Indios, Siguanea, and Nueva Gerona. 



Although at one time {cf. Annals Carnegie Museum, VIL 191 i, 

 424) I had doubts as to the distinctness of the Bahaman form of 

 Riccordia ricordii, comparison with the present fine series has served 

 to dispel them, so that the trinomial name is very properly employed 

 here. 



This hummingbird is a very common species in the Isle of Pines, 

 occurring almost everywhere, escept in the swampy country. It is 

 particularly numerous on the wooded slopes of the Casas Mountains, 

 frequenting the flowers which grow so profusely there during the rainy 

 season, and is common also in the country back of Caleta Grande. 



