Genus Sporadinus Bonap.

I now proceed to the genus Sporapinus, the members of which are confined to the West India Islands. They are very elegant in form, and are of somewhat large size, when compared with those which precede and follow them. They have deeply-forked tails, and the under surfaces of the males are brilliantly coloured; the females, on the other hand, are very sombrely attired.

• 390.

  Sporadinus elegans

  Habitat: The Island of St. Domingo

  Plate 347 Sporadinus elegans St. Domingo Humming-Bird

  • Trochilus Swainsoni, Jard. Nat. Lib. Humm. Birds, vol. ii. p. 88.
  • Chlorestes elegans, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pl. 704. f. 4587.
  • Sporadinus elegans, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 25.
• 391.

  Sporadinus Ricordi

  Habitat: The Island of Cuba

  Plate 348 Sporadinus Riccordi Riccord’s Humming-Bird

  • Chlorestes Raimondii, Reichenb. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pl. 704. figs. 4584–86.
  • Sporadinus Ricordi, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 25, note.
• 392.

  Sporadinus? Maugæi

  Habitat: Porto Rico

  Plate 349 Sporadinus? Maugæi Maugé’s Humming-Bird

  This bird differs somewhat in form from the two preceding species, and it may be found necessary to institute a separate genus for its reception. It is a very rare bird, and the two specimens, male and female, in the collection at the Jardin des Plantes at Paris are the only ones I have ever seen.