1918. Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory. 305 



*Mellisuga catharinae (Salle). Haitian Vervian Hummingbird. 



Ornismya catharinae Sall£, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1849, p. 498 (Santo Domingo). 



Mellisuga minima Sall6, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, p. 233 (Santo Domingo); 

 Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, p. 103, part (San Domingo); Cory, Bds. Haiti 

 and San Domingo, 1885, p. 92, pi. 22, Fig. 6; Id., Auk, 1886, p. 354, part 

 (San Domingo); Id., Bds. West Indies, 1889, p. 149, part (San Domingo); 

 Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 409, part (San Domingo). 



Mellisuga catharinae Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 191 1, p. 586 

 (Santo Domingo). 



Range: Island of Haiti and San Domingo. 



ti3: Haiti (Le Coup) 3; San Domingo (Puerto Plata 3, San Do- 

 mingo City 4, Honduras 2, Catare i). 



Genus ORTHORHYNCHUS Lac^p^de. 



Orthorhynchus Lac^pSde, Tabl. Ois., 1879, p. 9 (Type Trochilus cristatus Lin- 

 naeus).* 



*Orthorhynchus exilis exilis (Gmelin). Gilt-crested Hummingbird. 



Trochilus exilis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1788, p. 484 (" Guiana " = St. Kitts''). 

 Orthorhynchus exilis Gould, Mon. Trochil., IV, i86i,pl. 207; Allen, Bull. Nutt. 



Om., Club, 1880, p. 167 (St. Lucia, crit.). 

 Bellona exilis Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 1879, P- ^79; Cory, Auk, 1886, p. 357; Id., 



Bds. West Indies, 1889, p. 152; Id., Cat. Bds. West Indies, 1892, pp. 107, 144; 



Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 354. 

 Microlyssa exilis exilis Wetmore, Bull. No. 326, XJ. S. Dept. Agric, 19 16, p. 70 



(Vieques = Culebra) . 

 Orthorhynchus exilis exilis Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 191 1, p. 



658. 



Range: Virgin group of Greater Antilles (St. Thomas, St. Croix, 

 Aengada, Virgin Gordo, Vieque, Culebra); Porto Rico" and Lesser 

 Antilles, except St. Vincent, Grenada, Grenadines and Barbados. 



ti49: Virgin group of eastern Greater Antilles (St. Croix i, Ane- 

 gada 16, Virgin Gorda 16); Lesser Antilles (St. Kitts 39, St. Barthole- 

 mew I, Marie Galante 9; Grand Terre 10, St. Lucia 11, Dominica i, 

 Martinique 19, Guadeloupe 25). 



♦Orthorhynchus exilis ornatus (Gould). St. Vincent Blue-crest. 



Orthorhynchus ornatus Gould, Mon. Trochil., IV, i86o, pi. 206 (Type locality 



unknown = St. Vincent). 

 Bellona ornatus Cory, Auk, 1889, p. 218 (St. Vincent, crit.). 

 Bellona ornata Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 354 (St. Vincent). 



» Cf. Oberholser, Smith. Misc. Coll., XLVIII, 1905, p. 60. 

 ^ I designate St. Kitts for the type locality. 

 " C/. Wetmore, I.e. 



