iS86. 



Cory o?i the Birds of the West Indies. 3 S S 



Sp. Char. Male: — Head, throat, and elongated feathers of the neck 

 metallic red, almost pink in some lights; upper parts greenish-blue, 

 becoming steel-blue on the tail; breast grajish-white ; belly and 

 flanks greenish; wings purplish-brown. 



Female: — Head dull brown ; back green, shading into blue on the 

 lower part; underparts grayisli-white ; tail bluish-green, outer 

 feathers tipped with white. 



Length (skin), 2.50; wing, 1.25; tail, .So; bill, .45. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Genus Doricha Reich. 

 Doricha Reich. Aufz. der Colib. p. 12 (1S53). 



Doricha evelynae (Bourc). 



Calothorax evclyna: Gray, Gen. Bds. I, p. no (1S44). — Reich. Aufz. 



Colib. p. 13 (1S53).— Gould, Mon. Troch. HI, pi. 156 (1S61). 

 Trochilus evelyncB BoiiRC. P. Z. S. 1847, p. 44. 

 Callothorax evillina Bp. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1S54, p. 257. . 

 Lucifer evelince Reich. Troch. Enum. p. 10 (1S55). 

 Trochilus bahametisis Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VH, p. 106 



_ (1859)- 

 Doricha evelyitcE Gould, Intr. Troch. octavo ed. p. 95 (1S61). — Elliot, 

 Ibis, 1872, p. 353.— MuLS. Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch. IV, p. 38 (1S77). 

 Elliot, Mon. Troch. p. 125 (1878). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 108 

 (1880) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 18 (1S85). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above green, showing slight golden reflections on 

 the back, with the tips of the feathers, in some specimens, bluish ; 

 head darker; throat beautiful purple-violet, below which is a band 

 of white; underparts green, mixed with rufous, shading into white 

 on the flanks; crissiim pale rufous white ; wings brownish purple; 

 tail appearing black, very dark purple in some lights; outer feathers 

 with faint terminal spot of rufous, second with inner web, and third 

 with inner and basal half of outer web cinnamon ; bill and feet 

 black. 



Female: — Purple gorget wanting and replaced by dull white, with 

 a slight tinge of rufous; upper parts paler than in the male ; sides 

 cinnamon, becoming brightest under the wings; central feathers of 

 the tail bright green, the rest cinnainon; an oblique purplish band 

 on the tips of the fourth feathers. 



Length, 3.40; wing, 1.70; tail, 1-40; tarsus, .15: bill, .70. 

 Habitat. Bahamas. 



Doricha lyrura Gould. 



Doricha lyrura Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. IV, pp. iii, n2 

 (1869). — Elliot, Ibis. 1872, p. 354. — Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium 



