jSS6.] Cory 07i the Birds of tkr West Indies. 



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Sp. Char. Male:—^nX.\x^ plumage bronzy green, becoming metallic on 

 the throat; wings purplish brown; four central tail-feathers bronze, 

 the remainder purplish black, showing bronze on the outer webs; 

 under tail-coverts white; upper mandible dark brown; lower man- 

 dible pale, becoming dark at the tip; tail forked. 



Female: — Resembles the male, except having the crown brownish ; 

 throat and centre of abdomen pale buff; under tail-coverts grayish- 

 white. 



Length, 3.60; wing, 1.80; tail, 1.50; tarsus, .15; bill, .75. 

 Habitat. Cuba and Bahamas. 



Sporadinus maugsei (Vieill.). 



TrocJiilus tnangamsViKi'Li^. Diet. Hist. Nat. VJI, p. 56S (1S17). 



Ornismya magcei Less. Ois. Mouch. p. 194 (1829). 



Thaumaiias ourissia Bp. Consp. L p- 79 (1850). 



Sporadinus maiigeBi Bp. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1854, p. 255. — GouLD, Mon. 

 Troch. V, pi. 349 (1861).— ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 94 

 (1873)-— MuLs. Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch. H, p. 77 (1875).— Elliot, 

 Mon. Troch. p. 242 (1878).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 18 (1885). 



Troc//ilus maugci SvisiUKW. Oefv. K*. Vet. Akad. For. 1869, p. 600. 



Chlorestes gertrtidis Gundl. J. f. O. 1874, p. 315. 



Chlorolampis gerti'tidis Cab. J. f. O. 1875, p. 223. 



Sporaditius {Marsyas) matigcei MuLS. Cat. Ois. Mouch. p. 13 (187^)- 



Chlorolampis maugcEus Gundl. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VH, p. 22q 

 (1878). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Entire plumage bright green, the feathers showing a 

 golden tinge when held in the light; throat dark blue, golden-green 

 in some lights; tail dai-k blue; wings dark brown. 



Female: — Underparts dull white; the central feathers of the tail 

 green, the rest grayish-green, with a band of blue near the tip; 

 outer feathers tipped with grayish-white. 



Length (skin), 3.35; wing, 2; tail, 1.25; bill, .55. 

 Habitat. Porto Rico. 



* Family TROGONIDyE. 



Genus Priotelus Gray. 



Priotelus Gray, List. Gen. Bds. 1840. 



