'IQS Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. [July 



Hylocharis c.lvgans Gray, Gen. Bds. I, p. 114 (1844). 



Lampornis clcgans Bp. Consp. I, p. 72 (1850). 



Riccordia elega?ts Reich. Aufz. Colib. p. 8 (1S53). 



Sporadiuus elegans Bp. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1854, p. 255. — Salle, P. Z. S. 



1S57, p. 233. — Gould, Mon. Tioch. V, pi. 347 (1861). — ScL. & Salv. 



Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 94 (1873). — Elliot, Mon.Troch. p. 241 (187S). 



—Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, IV, p. 153 (18S1) ; ib. Bds. Haiti & 



San Domingo, p. 93 (18S5) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. iS (1885). 

 Chlorestcs elegans Reich. Troch. Enum. p. 4 (1855). 

 Sporadicus elegans Cab. & Hein. Mus. Hein. Ill, p. 25 (1S60). 

 Trochilus {Sporadi?i'is) elega7is Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 



95 US66). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Upper parts bronze-green ; throat bright metallic 

 green; a portion of the breast black ; wings brownish-purple ; tail 

 dark brown, with a bronze lustre on the upper surface ; bill flesh 

 color, tip black. 



I^emale:— Above bronze-green ; top of head grayish ; underparts 

 brownish-graj ; central tail-feathers bronze-green; rest of tail-feath- 

 ers gray, with subterminal black bar; some of the feathers glossed 

 with green. 



Length, 4; wing, 2.20; tail, 1.70: bill, .70. 

 Habitat. Haiti and San Dominsfo. 



'^Sporadinus riccordi (Gerv.). 



Trochilus riccordi Gerv. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1S35, pis. 41, 42. — Bp. Consp. 



I, p, 81 (1850). 

 Ornistnya parziidaki 'Lk?,?,. Rev. Zool. 183S, p. 315. 

 Orthorhynchiis riccordi D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 128 



(1840). 

 Hylocharis riccordi Gray, Gen. Bds. I. p. 114 (1S44). 

 Riccordia raimondi Reich. Aufz. Colib. p. 8 (1853). 

 Sporadinus riccordi Bp. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1854, p. 255.— Gould, Mon. 



Troch. V, pi. 348 (1861).— MuLs. Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch. II, p. 74 



(1875).— Elliot, Mon. Troch. p. 241 (1878).— Cory, List Bds. W. 



I. p. 18 (1885). 

 Chlorestcs raimondi Reich. Troch. Enum. p. 4 (iSsO- 

 Chlorestcs riccordi GuSDl.. J. f. O. 1856, p. 99.— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. 



Nat. Hist. VII, p. 306 (i860). — GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, 



p. 291 (1856); lb.}, f. O. 1874, p. 142. 

 Sporadicus riccordi C\'ii- i^ Hein. Mus. Hein. Ill, p. 25 (i86o). 

 Sporadinus ricordi ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 94 (1873).— 



Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. iii (1S80). 

 Sporadinus bracei Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 50 (1S77).— CoRV, 



Bds. Bahama I. p. 113 (18S0). 



