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Adult female.—Similar to the adult male, and perhaps not always 
distinguishable, but usually with the blue jugular area smaller and 
more greenish blue, and bill longer; length (skins), 110-121 (115); 
wing, 57.5-62 (59.5); tail, 32-35 (33.5); culmen, 21.5-26.5 (24.1).* 
Young.—Similar to adults, but color of under parts much duller, 
the chin, throat, and chest wholly dull metallic bronze-green, with 
underlying portion of feathers grayish dusky. 
Lesser Antilles (islands of Barbados, Union, Carriacou, Canouan, 
Bequia, St. Vincent, Santa Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Marie 
Galante, Desirade, Grand Terre, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Antigua, 
Barbuda, Nevis, St. Christopher, St. Eustatius, Saba, St. Bartholo- 
mew, and Sombrero), and Virgin group (islands of St. Croix, Ane- 
gada, Virgin Gorda, Tortola, St. Johns, St. Thomas, and Culebra). 
[Trochilus] holosericeus Linnzus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 120 (based on Black- 
bellied Green Humming-bird Edwards, Gleanings, i, pl. 36, etc.); ed. 12, i, 
1766, 191.—Gwmetin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 491.—Laruam, Index Orn., i, 
1790, 305.—Trmmuincx, Cat. Syst., 1807, 81. 
Trochilus holosericeus AUDEBERT and VierLLot, Ois. Dorés, i, 1801, 19, pl. 6 
(‘Porto Rico”).—Vrerot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 357 (‘“Mex- 
ico;” ‘“Guiana;” ‘Porto Rico;” ‘St. Domingo”).—Lrsson, Hist. Nat. 
Colibr., 1830-31, 76, pl. 20 (St. Thomas; ‘‘Porto Rico;” Martinique); Index 
Gen. et Synop. Troch., 1832, p. xi. 
T)rochilus] holosericeus Vrrtttot, Tabl. Enc. Méth., ii, 1822, 551. 
P[olytmus] holosericeus Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec., 1848, 108. 
[Polytmus] holosericeus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 130, no. 1649. 
[EZulampis] holosericeus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 72; Rev. et Mag. de 
Zool., 1854, 250.—Scrarer and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 81, part.— 
Muusant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 211, part—Cory, List Birds 
West Ind., 1885, 17, part.—Sciater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889, 395 (Santa 
Lucia). 
Eulampis holosericeus Goutp, Mon. Troch., pt. xiv, 1857 (vol. ii, 1861), pl. 83; 
Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 68.—Casstn, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 
377 (St. Thomas).—SciaTEeR, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 291; Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., 1871, 272 (Santa Lucia); 1874, 175 (Barbados); 1883, 499 (Anguilla); 
1892, 499 (Anguilla) —Tavytor, Ibis, 1864, 170 (Martinique; Dominica; 
habits)—Mutsant and Vrerreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 42; Hist. Nat. 
Ois.-Mouch., ii, livr. 2, 1875, 134; Suppl., pl. 41.—Szmprr, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., 1872, 651 (Santa Lucia; descr. nest).—EtuiotT, Ibis, 1872, 35 (St. 
Thomas; St. Croix; Martinique; Dominica; Santa Lucia; synon.; crit.); 
Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 42 (excl. syn. part).—Satvin, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., xvi, 1892, 105 (excl. syn. part)— Lawrence, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., i, 
1878, 60 (Dominica; habits), 192 (St. Vincent), 234 (Antigua); i, 1879, 358 
(Martinique), 458 (Guadeloupe), 487, part (Barbuda; Antigua; Guadeloupe; 
Dominica; Martinique; St. Vincent).—Atuten, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 
1880, 167 (Santa Lucia).—LisrEr, Ibis, 1880, 42 (St. Vincent).—GrispALE, 
Ibis, 1882, 486 (Montserrat; habits)—Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 351, part; iv, 
1887, 96 (Martinique); vii, 1890, 374 (Anegada), 375 (Tortola; Virgin Gorda); 
viii, 1891, 47 (Antigua; St. Eustatius), 48 (St. Croix; St. Christopher; Guade- 
loupe); Birds West Ind., 1889, 146, part; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, 106, 
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