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Rh Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, and perhaps not always distinguishable, but usually with the blue jugular area smaller and more greenish blue, and bill longer; length (skins), 110-121 (115); wing, 57.5-62 (59.5); tail, 32-35 (33.5); culmen, 21.5-26.5 (24.1).

Young. — Similar to adults, but color of under parts much duller, the chm, throat, and chest wholly dull metallic bronze-green, with underlying portion of feathers grayish dusky.

Lesser Antilles (islands of Barbados, Union, Carriacou, Canouan, Bequia, St. Vincent, Santa Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Marie Galante, Desirade, Grand Terre, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Antigua, Barbuda, Nevis, St. Christopher, St. Eustatius, Saba, St. Bartholomew, and Sombrero), and Virgin group (islands of St. Croix, Anegada, Virgin Gorda, Tórtola, St. Johns, St. Thomas, and Culebra).


 * [Trochilus] holosericeus Author:Carl Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 120 (based on Black-bellied Green Humming-bird Edwards, Gleanings, i, pl. 36, etc.); ed. 12, i, 1766, 191. — Author:Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 491. —, Index Orn., i, 1790. 305. — , Cat. Syst., 1807, 81.
 * Trochilus holosericeus and, Ois. Dorés, i, 1801, 19, pl. 6 ("Porto Rico"). — , Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 357 ("Mexico;" "Guiana;" "Porto Rico;" "St. Domingo"). — Author:René Primevère Lesson, Hist. Nat. Colibr., 1830-31, 76, pl. 20 (St. Thomas; "Porto Rico;" Martinique); Index Gen. et Synop. Troch., 1832, p. xi.
 * T[rochilus] holosericeus, Tabl. Enc. Méth., ii, 1822, 551.
 * P[olytmus] holosericeus Author:John Edward Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 108.
 * [Polytmus] holosericeus, Hand-list, i, 1869, 130, no. 1649.
 * [Eulampis] holosericeus Author:Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 72; Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 250.— Author:Philip Lutley Sclater and Author:Osbert Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 81, part. —, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 211, part. — Author:Charles Barney Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 17, part.— , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889, 395 (Santa Lucia).
 * Eulampis holosericeus Author:John Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xiv, 1857 (vol. ii, 1861), pl. 83; Inti-od. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 68. —, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 377 (St. Thomas). — , Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 291; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 272 (Santa Lucia); 1874, 175 (Barbados); 1883, 499 (Anguilla); 1892, 499 (Anguilla). — , Ibis, 1864, 170 (Martinique; Dominica; habits). — and , Classif. Troch., 1866, 42; Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., ii, livr. 2, 1875, 134; Suppl., pl. 41. — , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, 651 (Santa Lucia; descr. nest). — , Ibis, 1872, 35 (St. Thomas; St. Croix; Martinique; Dominica; Santa Lucia; synon.; crit.); Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 42 (excl. syn. part). — , Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.,xvi, 1892, 105 (excl. syn. part). — , Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 60 (Dominica; habits), 192 (St. Vincent), 234 (Antigua); i, 1879, 358 (Martinique), 458 (Guadeloupe), 487, part (Barbuda; Antigua; Guadeloupe; Dominica; Martinique; St. Vincent). — , Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 167 (Santa Lucia). — , Ibis, 1880, 42 (St. Vincent). — , Ibis, 1882, 486 (Montserrat; habits). — , Auk, iii, 1886, 351, part; iv, 1887, 96 (Martinique); vii, 1890, 374 (Anegada), 375 (Tortola; Virgin Gorda); viii, 1891, 47 (Antigua; St. Eustatius), 48 (St. Croix; St. Christopher; Guadeloupe); Birds West Ind., 1889, 146, part; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, 106,