BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 585 
Adult female.—Similar to the adult male, but two lateral rectrices 
(on each side) broadly tipped with white, the third usually with a 
small white or grayish white terminal spot; length (skins), 59-68 
(63); wing, 36-39 (37.8); tail, 19-21 (19.9); exposed culmen, 10-11.5 
qijs 
Island of Jamaica (Kingston; Spanishtown; Priestmans River; 
Port Henderson; Hope Gardens). 
[Trochilus] minimus Linnamus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 121 (based on Mellisuga 
avis minima Sloane, Jamaica, 307, pl. 364, fig. 1; Polytmus minimus variegatus 
Brown, Jamaica, 475, pl. 364, fig. 1; Least Humming Bird Edwards, Nat. 
Hist., i, pl. 105); ed. 12, i, 1766, 193.—Gmrein, Syst. Nat.,i, pt. 1, 1788, 500.— 
Latuam, Index Orn., i, 1790, 320. 
(2) Trochilus minimus AUDEBERT and Vrertor, Ois. Dorés, i, 1802, 113, pl. 64, 
part.—Vierttot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 369, part.—LzEsson, 
Index Gen. et Synop. Troch., 1832, p. xxvii. 
T[rochilus] minimus VinttLot, Tab. Enc. Meth., ii, 1822, 568, part. 
Ornismya minima Lxsson, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., 1829, pp. xxxii, 213. 
[Mellisuga] minimus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 81, part (‘‘Antilles”). 
Mellisuga minima ReicHensacu, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 6, part; Troch. Enum., 
1855, 3, pl. 680, fig. 4490.—Govuxp, Mon. Troch., iii, pt. ii, Nov., 1851 (vol. 
iii, 1861, pl. 133), part; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 87, part.—ScLaTER, 
Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 297 (Jamaica).—Marcu, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 
1863, 285 (Jamaica).—ELuiot, Ibis, 1872, 354, part (Jamaica; synon.; crit.); 
Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 103, part (Jamaica)—Mutsant and VER- 
REAUX, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 2, 1877, 82, part, pl. 106, figs. 1, 2 
(Jamaica).—Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 354, part (Jamaica); Birds West Ind., 1889, 
149, part (Jamaica); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, 107, part (Jamaica).— 
Riveway, Rep. U. 8. Nat. Mus. for 1890 (1891), pl. 17 (bird, nest, and eggs; 
Jamaica).—Satvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 409, part (Jamaica).— 
Scort, Auk, ix, 1892, 277 (Jamaica).—Fietp, Auk, xi, 1894, 126 (Port Hen- 
derson, Jamaica; descr. nest)—Boucarp, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1892, 6, part 
(Jamaica).—Lopasz, Ibis, 1896, 503 (Jamaica; habits).—Nicot, Ibis, 1904, 
577 (Kingston, Jamaica; notes). 
[ Mellisuga] minima Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 257.—SciaTer and 
Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 84, part (Jamaica)—Muusant, Ann. Soc. 
Linn. Lyon, n. s., xxii, 1876, 227, part (Jamaica).—Cory, List Birds West 
Ind., 1885, 18, part (Jamaica).—SHarpe, Hand-list, iii, 1900, 142, part 
(Jamaica). 
M[ellisuga] minima NewrTon (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 108.—HarrTert, 
Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 212, part (Jamaica). 
Zephyritis (Dyrinia) minima Muusant and VERREAUX, Classif. Troch., 1866, 88, 
part (Jamaica). 
[Hylocharis] minima Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 150, no. 1941, part (Jamaica). 
Trochilus minutulus Vie1tuoT, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 73 (new name for ‘7. 
minutus L. Gm.,’’ i. e., T. minimus Linneeus). 
Mellisuga humilis Gossz, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 127; Illustr. Birds Jam., 1849, 
pl. 21.—Marc#, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 285 (Jamaica). 
Mellisuga humila Atbrecut, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 201 (Jamaica). 
Trochilus pygmacus (not of Spix, 1824) Swarnson, Birds of Brazil, Mex., etc., 
[1841?], pl. 78. 
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