BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 663 
(skins), 77-82 (80); wing, 45.5-51.5 (48.4); tail, 27-30.5 (28.8); 
exposed culmen, 9-11 (9.6).¢ 
Adult female——Above metallic green, bronze-green, or bronze, 
including middle rectrices, the latter becoming dusky terminally; 
remaining rectrices black, faintly glossed with purplish, the three 
outer pairs broadly tipped with pale gray, and with basal portion 
dull grayish glossed with bronze-green or greenish bronze, the pair 
next to middle pair similar but without gray tip and with basal 
portion more extensively greenish or bronzy; remiges dusky, faintly 
glossed with purplish; under parts pale gray, slightly darker laterally, 
especially on sides of neck, the chin and median portion of throat 
sometimes inclining to dull whitish; bill, etc., as in adult male; length 
(skins), 80-83 (81); wing, 45-48.5 (46.6); tail, 28-31.5 (29.3); exposed 
culmen, 9.5-12 (10.9).° 
Immature male.—Similar to the adult male, but without crest, the 
pileum dark and rather dull metallic bluish green. 
Island of Barbados, Lesser Antilles. 
[Trochilus] cristatus Linnaus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 121 (based on Crested 
Humming Bird, Avis mellivora, minor, cristata Edwards, Nat. Hist., i, pl. 37); 
ed. 12, i, 1766, 192—Gmetin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 498—LarHam, 
Index Orn., i, 1790, 317. 
Trochilus cristatus AUDEBERT and VIEILLoT, Ois. Dorés, i, 1801, 91-93, pls. 47, 
48, part—Tremmincx, Cat. Syst., 1807, 83.—Vie1Lot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. 
Nat., vii, 1817, 365, pl. B. 19, fig. 3, part?—ScnuomsBurcx, Hist. Barbados, 
1848, 681. 
T[rochilus| cristatus Swanson, Birds Brazil, etc., pt. 2 (1834-35?), pl. 21. 
Ornismya cristata Lesson, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., 1829, pp. xxxix, 113, pls. 31, 
32; Les Trochilidées, 1831, 20, pl. 4 (‘‘Santo Domingo”); Traité d’Orn., 1831, 
285; Index Gen. et Synop. Troch., 1832, p. xxx, part (‘‘Trinidad ”)? 
Mfellisuga] cristata Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec., 1848, 113. 
[Orthorhynchus] cristatus BONAPARTE, Cousp. Av., i, 1850, 83.—Scuarer and 
Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 88, part (Barbados). 
Orthorhynchus cristatus ReIcHENBACH, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 11; Troch. Enum., 
1855, 9, pl. 807, figs. 4876, 4877.—GouLp, Mon. Troch., pt. xiii, May, 1857; 
vol. iv, 1861, pl. 205; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 116.—PxruzeLn, Orn. 
Bras., iv, Abth., 1870, 408 (‘‘Brazil” on authority of Swainson).—Etuior, 
Ibis, 1872, 355, part (Barb4dos; synonymy; crit.) —Satvin, Ibis, 1873, 334, 
in text (Barb4dos).—Sciater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, 175 (BarbAdos).— 
FEipen, Ibis, 1889, 487 (Barb4dos; habits; descr. nest and eggs). 
O[rthorhynchus] cristatus CaBANISs and HEINE, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 61 (Barb4dos). 
Orthorhyncus cristatus cristatus OBERHOLSER, Smithson. Misc. Coll., xlviii, May 
13, 1905, 60. 
Bellona cristata Mutsant and VERREAUX, Classif. Troch., 1866, 75; Hist. Nat. 
Ois.-Mouch., iii, 1876, 193, part (Barb4dos), pl. 89; Suppl., pl. 21.—Etxror, 
Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 178, part (Barb4dos).—Cory, Auk, iii, 
1886, 356, part (Barbddos); vi, 1889, 218, part (Barbddos); Ibis, 1886, 472 
(Barbddos); Birds West Ind., 1889, 151, part (Barbddos); Cat. West Ind. 
Birds, 1892, 13, 107, 144, part (Barbédos).—Satvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
xvi, 1892, 353, part (Barbédos).—Bovcarp, Gen. Hum. Birds, ii, 1892, 52, 
part (Barbddos). 
& Ten specimens. b Six specimens. 
