BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 471 
adult male; length (skins), 99-110 (104);% wing, 54-63 (58.1); tail, 
31.5-34 (32.7); culmen, 21-25.5 (23.6).° 
Immature male.—Similar to the adult female, but basal portion of 
lateral rectrices mostly chestnut (glossed with violet-purple), and 
throat and chest showing, along median line, more or less of the 
metallic bronze or bronze-green and black of the adult plumage. 
Islands of Porto Rico (Catafio; Luquillo; Aguadilla; Arroyo; 
Ponce; Hucares; Coamo; Afiasco; El Ydnque), Culebra, St. 
Thomas, St. Johns, and Anegada, Greater Antilles. 
Trochilus aurulentus AUDEBERT and VIEILLoT, Ois. Dorés, i, 1801, 29, 31, pls. 12, 
13 (Porto Rico; coll. Paris Mus.).—Viem.or, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., vii, 
1817, 350 (Porto Rico).—Lesson, Hist. Nat. Colibr., 1830-31, 68, 71, 73, 74, 
pls. 16-19 (Porto Rico); Index Gen. et Synop. Troch., 1832, p. xi, (Porto Rico). 
Lampornis aurulentus Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 377 (St. Thomas).— 
Mutsant and VERREAUX, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, livr. 2, 1874, 152, part 
(St. Thomas; Porto Rico).—Gunpiacu, Journ. fiir Orn., 1878, 181 (Porto 
Rico; crit.); Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 233 (Porto Rico). 
[Lampornis] aurulentus ScLaTER and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 81, part 
(Porto Rico; St. Thomas)—Gunp.acs, Journ. fir Orn., 1874, 312 (Porto 
Rico); 1878, 160 (Porto Rico).—Mutsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 
202, part (St. Thomas; Porto Rico). 
Trochilus (Lampornis) aurulentus SuNDEvALL, Oefv. K. Vet. Ak. Férh., 1869, 
600 (Porto Rico). 
Lampornis virginalis Goud, Mon. Troch., ii, pt. xxiv, Sept., 1861, pl. 80 (St. 
Thomas, Greater Antilles; coll. J. Gould); Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 
66.—SciaTEeR, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 291.—Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 
1892, 12, 108, 143 (Anegada; Porto Rico; St. Thomas?).—Satvin, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 97 (Porto Rico; St. Thomas).—Bovucarp, Gen. Hum. 
Birds, 1895, 329 (St. Thomas).—Bowpisu, Auk, xix, 1902, 366 (Porto Rico; 
habits). 
[Lampornis aurulentus] var. virginalis Mutsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s., 
xxii, 1876, 202 (St. Thomas). 
Llampornis] virginalis Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 99 (monogr.). 
[Lampornis] virginalis SHarre, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 119. 
[Polytmus] virginalis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 126, no. 1583. 
Lampornis ellioti Cory, Auk, vii, Oct., 1890, 374 (Anegada I., W. I.; coll. C. B. 
Cory).—Boucarp, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 329 (Anegada). 
«Two specimens. b Eleven specimens. 
Ex- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | posed 
iculmen. 
MALES. 
Ten adult males from Porto Rico........-..--02.0see- eee eee eee ence eee eeee 63 36.5 23.5 
One adult male from Culebra Island..............2..2-00 2222 cece e eee eee eens 62 36 24 
Four adult males from St. Thomas. ............-..2 22222-22222 eee eee ete eee eee 62.1 37.3 22,2 
Two adult males from Anegada...-.....2-.. 2.2 e eee eee eee eee tee e eee eee 60.7 36.7 22.9 
FEMALES. 
Six adult females from Porto Rico.........----.. 222.00 - cece eee eee cence eee eee 58.2 32.6 24.3 
Three adult females from St. Thomas...............-.-- 2-2 eee eee eee eee ee ene 58.8 32.7 23.3 
Two adult females from St. Johms........-.--.--.---- 22-22 s eee eee ee eee eee e eee 56.5 33.2 23.2 
