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lars, wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts bright metallic 
bluish green or greenish blue; tail metallic greenish blue (decidedly 
more bluish than back, etc.), the lateral rectrices blackish terminally ; 
remiges dull black or dusky, faintly glossed with violet; chest grayish 
white, passing posteriorly into more decided gray on median portion 
of breast and abdomen; sides and flanks metallic bluish green, more 
or less intermixed with grayish; under tail-coverts grayish white 
with a subterminal spot of metallic bluish green; femoral tufts and 
tuft on each side of rump white; bill dull black; iris dark brown; 
feet dusky; length (skins), 55-62 (58); wing, 27.5-29 (28.4); tail, 
16-16.5 (16.2); exposed culmen, 10.¢ 
Adult female.—Above metallic bluish green, duller on pileum, more 
bluish posteriorly ; middle rectrices bright metallic greenish blue, the 
remaining rectrices bright greenish blue basally (for more than half 
their length), black terminally or subterminally, the two or three 
outermost tipped with white (broadly on lateral rectrix); remiges 
dusky, faintly glossed with violaceous; superciliary, auricular, and 
suborbital regions brownish gray (nearly drab-gray); a blackish loral 
spot or streak and a small whitish postocular spot; under parts pale 
brownish gray, fading into white on anal region and under tail-coverts ; 
femoral tufts white; bill, etc., as m adult male; length (skins), 
57-66 (62); wing, 32-34.5 (33.1); tail, 16.5-19.5 (17.9); exposed cul- 
men, 10.5-11.5 (11.1). 
Immature male—Similar to the adult female, but usually more 
bluish above. 
Island of Cuba (Cardenas; Santiago; Bayate; Holquin; Figuabas). 
Orthorhynchus helene LEmMBEYE, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 70, pl. 10, fig. 2 
(Cardenas, Cuba; ex Gundlach, manuscript).—BrEweEr, Proc. Bost. Soc. 
N. H., vii, 1860, 306. 
Orthorhynchus helenae GUNDLACH, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 414. 
[Orthorhynchus] helenae GunpiacH, Journ. fir Orn., 1861, 334. 
Calypte helenz Govutp, Mon. Troch., pt. xi, May, 1856; vol. iii, 1861, pl. 136; 
Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 88.—Gunpuacu, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 
1866, 291; Journ. fiir Orn., 1874, 144 (habits); Contr. Orn. Cuba, 1876, 109, 
272; Auk, viii, 1891, 187 (crit.; habits, etc.); Orn. Cub., ed. 1895, 132.— 
Exuiot, Ibis, 1872, 354 (synonymy); Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 108.— 
Mutsant and VERREAUX, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 1, 1877, 77, pl. 105; 
Suppl., pl. 7—Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 354; Birds West Ind., 1889, 149; Cat. 
West Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, 107, 128, 144.—Sanvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 
1892, 405.—Boucarp, Gen. Hum. Birds, ii, 1892, 6—Ripeway, Man. N. 
Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 598. 
C[alypte] helenae Heine, Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 208. 
C[alypte] helene Batrp, Brewer, and Ripeway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 
453 —Ripeway, Rep. U.8. Nat. Mus. for 1890 (1891), 334 (diagnosis, etc.). 
[Calypte] helenz ScuateR and Savin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1878, 84.—Cory, List 
Birds West Ind., 1885, 18. 
@ Four specimens, b Nine specimens. 
