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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...colubris D'orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 126 (1840). Melisuga colubris Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 306 (1S60) (Cuba). Recorded from Bahamas, Cuba, and Porto Rico. Genus Mellisuga Biuss. Mellisuga Brisson, Orn. Ill, p. 695 (1760). Mellisuga minima (linn.). Trochilus minimus Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 193 (1766).--Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 500 (1788).--Lath. Ind. Orn. I, p. 320 (1790). Trochilus minutulus Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. II, p. 73 (1807). Trochilus vieillotiShaw, Gen. Zool. VIII, p. 347 (1812). Ornismya minima Less. Ois. Mouch. pl. 79 (1829). Hylocharis nigra Gray, Gen. Bds. I, p. 114 (1844). Mellisuga humilis Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 127 (1847).--March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863. p. 285. Trochilus Catherine Salle, Rev. Zool. 1849, P-49-Hylocharis niger Bp. Consp. I, p. 81 (1850). Mellisuga minima Bp. Consp. I, p. 81 (1850).--Reich. Aufz. Colib. p. 6 (i853).--Salle, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 233.--Gould, Mon. Troch. Ill, p. 133.--March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 285.--Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch. IV, p. 82 (1877).--Elliot, Mon. Troch. p. 103 (1878).--A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 108 (1881).--Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI, p. 153 (1881); ib. Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 92 (1885); ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 18 (1885). Mellisuga humila Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 201. 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; underparts white; under tail-coverts tipped with green; tail black; bill and feet black. 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. Habitat. Jamaica, H