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adult male; length (skins), 99-110 (104) ;^[1] wing, 54-63 (58.1); tail, 31.5-34 (32.7); culmen, 21-25.5 (23.6).^[2]

Immature male. — Similar to the adult female, but basal portion of lateral rectrices mostly chestnut (glossed with violet-purple), and throat and chest showing, along median line, more or less of the metallic bronze or bronze-green and black of the adult plumage.

Islands of Porto Rico (Cataňo; Luquillo; Aguadilla; Arroyo; Ponce; ITucarcs; Coamo; Añasco; El Yúnque), Culebra, St. Thomas, St. Johns, and Anegada, Greater Antilles.

Trochilus aurulentus Audebert and Vieillot, Ois. Dorés, i, 1801, 29, 31, pls. 12, 13 (Porto Rico; coll. Paris Mus.). — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 350 (Porto Rico). — Lesson, Hist. Nat. Colibr., 1830-31, 68, 71, 73, 74, pls. 16-19 (Porto Rico); Index Gen. et Synop. Troch., 1832, p. xi, (Porto Rico).

Lampornis aurulentus Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 377 (St. Thomas). — Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, livr. 2, 1874, 152, part (St. Thomas; Porto Rico). — Gundlach, Journ. für Orn., 1878, 181 (Porto Rico; crit.); Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 233 (Porto Rico).

[Lampornis] aurulentus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 81, part (Porto Rico; St. Thomas). — Gundlach, Journ. für Orn., 1874, 312 (Porto Rico); 1878, 160 (Porto Rico). — Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 202, part (St. Thomas; Porto Rico).

Trochilus {Lampornis) aurulentus Sundevall, Oefv. K. Vet. Ak. Förh., 1869, 600 (Porto Rico).

Lampornis virginalis Gould, Mon. Troch., ii, pt. xxiv, Sept., 1861, pl. 80 (St. Thomas, Greater Antilles; coll. J. Gould); Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 66. — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 291. — Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 108, 143 (Anegada; Porto Rico; St. Thomas?).— Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 97 (Porto Rico; St. Thomas). — Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 329 (St. Thomas). — Bowdish, Auk, xix, 1902, 366 (Porto Rico; habits).

[Lampornis aurulentus] var. virginalis Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s., xxii, 1876, 202 (St. Thomas).

L[ampornis] virginalis Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 99 (monogr.).

[Lampornis] virginalis Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 119.

[Polytmus] virginalis Gray, Hand-list, 1, 1869, 126, no. 1583.

Lampornis ellioti Cory, Auk, vii, Oct., 1890, 374 (Anegada I., W. I.; coll. C. B. Cory). — Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 329 (Anegada).

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1. Two specimens.
2. Eleven specimens.

   Locality.	Wing.	Tail.	Exposed culmen.
   males.
   Ten adult males from Porto Rico	63	36.5	23.5
   One adult male from Culebra Island	62	36	24
   Four adult males from St. Thomas	62.1	37.3	22.2
   Two adult males from Anegada	60.7	36.7	22.9
   females.
   Six adult females from Porto Rico	58.2	32.6	24.3
   Three adult females from St. Thomas	58.8	32.7	23.3
   Two adult females from St. Johns	56.5	33.2	23.2