546 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, . 
RICCORDIA SWAINSONI (Lesson). 
HAITIAN EMERALD. 
Adult male-—Above metallic bronze-green to grass-green, usually 
duller on pileum, the upper tail-coverts decidedly more bronzy; tail 
dark greenish bronze, becoming darker (dull blackish) on lateral 
rectrices; remiges dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; chin, throat, 
and sides of chest brilliant metallic emerald green or yellowish green; 
center of chest and upper breast opaque velvety black; rest of under 
parts metallic green or bronze-green, darker (sometimes blackish) 
along median line, especially on abdomen; femoral and lumbar 
tufts pale brownish gray; maxilla dull black; mandible pale (reddish 
or flesh color in life), dusky terminally; iris dark brown; feet dusky 
(in dried skins); length (skins), 102-110 (106); wing, 54.5-58 (55.7); 
tail, 41-49 (43.6); culmen, 16-18 (16.9).¢ 
Adult female——Above as in the adult male, but lateral rectrices 
bronze or bronze-green for basal two-thirds (approximately) the 
subterminal or terminal portion black, the one or two outermost 
pairs tipped (more or less broadly) with brownish gray; under parts 
light brownish gray (nearest drab-gray), the sides and flanks over- 
laid by metallic green or bronze-green; length (skins), 97-105 (100); 
wing, 49-55 (53.2); tail, 35-39.5 (37.5); culmen, 17-19 (18.1).® 
Island of Haiti (Le Coup and Gautier, Haiti; Samané, Catare, Agua- 
cate, El Valle, La Canita, Sanchez, and La Vega, Santo Domingo). 
Trochilus elegans (not of Reich, 1795) AupzeBERT and Vuix1LLot, Ois. Dorés, i, 
1801, 32, pl. 14.—Virtx07, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 351.—Lesson, 
Suppl. Ois.-Mouch., 1830-31, 99.—Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1867, 
95 (Santo Domingo). 
T[rochilus] elegans ViEw.ot, Tabl. Enc. Méth., ii, 1822, 556. 
H{ylocharis] elegans Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec., 1848, 114. 
[Hylocharis] elegans Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 150, no. 1943. 
[Lampornis] elegans Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 72. 
[Chlorestes. 0. Riccordia] elegans RetcHEnBacH, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 8. 
[Chlorestes] elegans ReicHENBACH, Troch. Enum., 1855, 4, pl. 704, fig. 4587. 
[Sporadinus] elegans Bonararte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 255.—SciaTEer and 
Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 94.—Munsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 
1876, 209 (Haiti).—Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 18. 
Sporadinus elegans Saut&, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 233 (Santo Domingo).— 
Goutp, Mon. Troch., pt. xviii, 1859; vol. v, 1861, pl. 347; Introd. Troch., 
oct. ed., 1861, 173.—Euior, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 241.—MuL- 
sant and VERREAUX, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., ii, livr. 1, 1875, 72 (Santo 
Domingo); iv, livr. 3, 1878, 197.—Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 153 
(Gautier and Le Coup, Haiti); Birds Haiti and St. Dom., 1885, 93, pl. 22, 
figs. 9, 10; Auk, iii, 1886, 358 (descr.; synon.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 152; 
Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, 107, 181.—Satvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 
1892, 59 (Samand, Santo Domingo).—Bovucarp, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 
117.\Cuzrniz, Contr. Orn. San Dom., 1896, 18 (habits).—Curisty, Ibis, 
1897, 329 (Sanchez and La Vega, Santo Domingo). 
2 Ten specimens. b Four specimens. 
