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BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



Genus : MELLISUGA. Briss. 

 MELLISUGA : BRISS., ORXITH., III. p. 695, 176c. 



MELLISUGA MINIMA. (Linn.) 



Trochilus minimus. Linn., Syst. Nat., I. p. 193 (1766). — Gmel., 

 Syst. Nat., I. p. 500 (1 788). — Lath., Ind. Orn., I. p. 320 

 (1790). 



Trochilus uiiuutulus. Vieill, Ois. Am., Sept. II. p. 73 (1807). 



Oruismya minima. Less., Ois. Mouch., pi. 79 (1829), 9. 



Mellisuga humilis. Gosse, Bds. Jam., p. 127 (1847). 



Trochilus catherince. Salle, Rev. Zool., 1849, p. 498. 



Hylocharis niger. Gray, Gen. Bds., I. p. 114, sp. 16. 



Mellisuga minima. Bp., Consp. Gen. A v., I. p. Si (1850). — Gould, 



mon. Troch., III. pi. 133. — Salle, P. Z. S., 1857, p. 233. — 



Elliot, Syn. Troch., p. 103 (1878). — Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 



Club, VI. p. 153 (1881). 

 Trochilus (Mellisuga) minimus. Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 



XI. p. 95 (1866). 



Sp. Char., Male. — Above, bright green; flanks, green; throat, 

 dull white spotted with brown, heaviest on the lower part ; under- 

 pays, white ; under tail coverts, tipped with green ; tail, black ; bill 

 and feet, black. 



Sp. Char., Female. — Resembles the male, but lacks the spots 

 on the throat; lateral tail-feathers, tipped with white. 

 Length 2.70; wing 1.50; tail .60; bill .45. 



Although this little species is abundant in some portions of 



