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deeper laterally, paler on chin and throat; bill, etc., as in adult male; 
length (skin), 83; wing, 47; tail, 28; exposed culmen, 12.¢ 
Island of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles; occasional straggler to 
Martinique ? ® 
Orthorhynchus ornatus GouLD, Mon. Troch., pt. xxiv, Sept., 1861; vol. iv, 1861, 
‘pl. 206 (locality unknown; coll. J. Gould); Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 
117.—EtuiotT, Ibis, 1872, 355 (“Martinique and Santa Lucia’’—error?).— 
Lawrence, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 192, 487 (St. Vincent).—ListEr, 
Ibis, 1880, 42 (St. Vincent; habits). 
Orthorhyncus ornatus OBERHOLSER, Smithson. Misc. Coll., xlviii, May 13, 1905, 60. 
[Trochilus] ornatus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 148, no. 1903. 
Bellona ornatus Cory, Auk, vi, July, 1889, 218 (St. Vincent; crit.). 
Bellona ornata Ripeway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., iii, Oct. 27, 1880, 316 (St. Vin- 
cent).—Satvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 354 (St. Vincent). 
[Bellona] ornata Suarpz, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 142 (St. Vincent). 
Bellona exilis ornatus Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, 107, 134, 144 (St. 
Vincent). 
Bellona exilis ornata CuarKx (A. H.), Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxxii, 1905, 275 
(St. Vincent; descr. nest and eggs). 
Bfellona] cristata ornata Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 213. 
Bellona cristata (not Trochilus cristatus Linneus) Mutsant and VERREAUX, 
Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iii, livr. 3, 1876, 193, part (St. Vincent).—Exuiot, 
Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 178, part (St. Vincent).—Cory, Auk, iii, 
1886, 356, part (St. Vincent); Ibis, 1886, 473 (St. Vincent); Birds West Ind., 
1889, 151, part (St. Vincent). 
Orthorhynchus cristatus Extiot, Ibis, 1872, 355, part (St. Vincent; synonymy; 
crit.). 
[Orthorhynchus] cristatus ScLatER and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 88, part 
(St. Vincent). 
Bellona hectoris Mutsant and VERREAUX, Classif. Troch., 1866, 75. 
Bellona superba Boucarp, The Hum. Bird, i, June 1, 1891, 43 (St. Vincent; 
coll. A. Boucard); Gen. Hum. Birds, 1892, 53 (St. Vincent). 
ORTHORHYNCUS CRISTATUS CRISTATUS (Linnzus). 
BLUE-CRESTED HUMMING BIRD. 
Adult male —Forehead and crown brilliant metallic green, changing 
(according to inclination of light) from pure emerald green to golden 
green; occipital crest (abruptly) rich metallic violet; hindneck and 
sides of head behind eyes dark and rather dull metallic bluish green; 
back, scapulars, wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts rather 
dark metallic grass green; tail black, glossed with purplish bronze; 
remiges dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; loral, suborbital, and 
auricular regions and under parts sooty blackish, fading into sooty 
gray on chin and throat; femoral tufts pale grayish or whitish; bill 
dull black; iris dark brown; feet grayish brown or dusky; length 
@ One specimen. 
> A specimen in the Bangs collection said to be from Martinique is typical of this 
form, and some specimens from Santa Lucia approach it more or less. 
