586 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
MELLISUGA CATHARINE (Sallé). 
HAITIAN VERVAIN HUMMING BIRD. 
Similar to M. minima but adult male much darker (both above 
and below), with wing and tail longer, the latter more deeply forked, 
the adult female slightly darker below. 
Adult male-—Above dark dull metallic green, darker (sometimes 
nearly black) on rump and upper tail-coverts; tail black, including 
middle rectrices; remiges dusky, very faintly glossed with purplish; 
auricular and suborbital regions deep sooty gray; chin, throat, and 
chest pale gray, the first two with feathers dusky gray centrally 
producing a spotted effect; under parts of body dark metallic green, 
intermixed along median line with gray; under tail-coverts dark 
metallic green narrowly margined with pale gray and with base of 
feathers grayish; femoral and lumbar tufts white; bill dull black; 
iris dark brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 57-66 (62); wing, 34-36.5 
(35.1); tail, 16.5-19 (17.9), middle rectrices, 12-14 (12.8).¢ 
Adult female.—Above rather dark metallic green, bluish green or 
(rarely) bronze-green, including basal two-thirds (approximately) of 
middle rectrices; lateral and terminal or subterminal portion of 
middle rectrices black, the outermost pair broadly, the next less 
broadly tipped with dull white, the third sometimes narrowly tipped 
with the same; remiges dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; under 
parts pale gray, paler (nearly grayish white) on chin, throat, and 
abdomen, deepening into sooty gray laterally (especially on aanenian 
and suborbital regions and sides of neck), the sides and flanks glossed 
with metallic green; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 65-71 
(68); wing, 36-40 (37.1); tail, 18.5-21 (19.5); culmen, 10-11.5 (10.8). 
Immature male.—Similar to the adult female but feathers of chin 
and throat with a darker gray mesial streak, and sides more strongly 
or extensively glossed with green. 
Island of Haiti-(Le Coup and Port au Prince, Haiti; Catare, Samané 
Bay, Sanchez, La Vega, Honduras, Cafia Honda, La Canita, San 
Francisco Mountains, and Rio San Juan, Santo Domingo). 
(2?) [Trochilus] niger Linnasus, Sys. Nat., ed. 10, 1758, 121 (Indiis); ed. 12, pt. 1, 
1766, 192.—GmELin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 496. 
Trochilus niger (not of Linnzeus?) Vrenxo7, Ois. Am. Sept.i, 1807, 73 (L’Oiseau- 
mouche & ventregris). 
Trochilus mellisugus (not of Latham) Vrerttot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., vii, 
1817, 363, part (Santo Domingo ¢).  ~ 
H{ylocharis] nigra Gray and MircHewt, Gen. Birds, i, 1844, 114. 
[Ornismya] niger BONAPARTE, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 81 (Santo Domingo), 
Trochilus minimus (not of Linnzeus) AUDEBERT and ViE1L1L0T, Ois. Dorés, i, 1802, 
118, pl. 64, part.—Vizit107, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 369, part.— 
Lzsson, Index Gen. et Synop. Troch., 1832, p. xxvii, part Bryant, Proc. 
@ Seven specimens. 
b Six specimens. 
¢ Cites also Cayenne and Porto Rico! 
