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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.
- f. Smaller (wing of adult male averaging 66.9, tail 37.2, culmen 23.5; female, wing 65.2, tail 35.2, culmen 24.1); metallic color bordering black of throat and chest more bluish. (South America east of Andes to Panamá; St. Andrews Island, Caribbean Sea.)
- f. Smaller (wing of adult male averaging 66.9, tail 37.2, culmen 23.5; female, wing 65.2, tail 35.2, culmen 24.1); metallic color bordering black of throat and chest more bluish. (South America east of Andes to Panamá; St. Andrews Island, Caribbean Sea.)
Anthracothorax nigricollis nigricollis, adult male (p. 459).
- ff. Larger (wing of adult male averaging 67.2, tail 37, culmen 25.3; female, wing 69.5, tail 37, culmen 27.2); metallic color bordering black of throat and chest more greenish. (Western Ecuadór.)
- ff. Larger (wing of adult male averaging 67.2, tail 37, culmen 25.3; female, wing 69.5, tail 37, culmen 27.2); metallic color bordering black of throat and chest more greenish. (Western Ecuadór.)
Anthracothorax nigricollis iridescens (extralimital).[1]
- ee. Throat and under parts of body narrowly black (medially), the latter sometimes merely darker green or bluish along median line. (Anthracothorax prevosti.)
- f. Bill longer (culmen averaging 26.2); under parts of body usually more distinctly blackish along median line. (Southern Mexico to Honduras.)
- f. Bill longer (culmen averaging 26.2); under parts of body usually more distinctly blackish along median line. (Southern Mexico to Honduras.)
- ee. Throat and under parts of body narrowly black (medially), the latter sometimes merely darker green or bluish along median line. (Anthracothorax prevosti.)
Anthracothorax prevostii prevostii, adult male (p. 463).
- ff. Bill shorter (culmen averaging less than 25); under parts of body less distinctly blackish along median line.
- g. Bill more slender, the culmen 23.5-25.5; upper parts and lateral under parts metallic green or bronze-green. (Nicaragua and Costa Rica.)
- g. Bill more slender, the culmen 23.5-25.5; upper parts and lateral under parts metallic green or bronze-green. (Nicaragua and Costa Rica.)
- ff. Bill shorter (culmen averaging less than 25); under parts of body less distinctly blackish along median line.
Anthracothorax prevostii gracilirostris, adult male (p. 465).
- gg. Bill stouter and shorter, the culmen 22-23.5; upper parts and lateral under parts bronze or golden bronze. (Old Providence Island, Caribbean Sea.)
Anthracothorax prevostii hendersoni, adult male (p. 466).
- dd. Throat metallic green or bronze.
- e. Chest only partly black or without black, throat emerald green or bright golden green.
- f. A black spot on chest; center of abdomen blackish. (Trinidád and Venezuela to Lower Amazon.)
- e. Chest only partly black or without black, throat emerald green or bright golden green.
- dd. Throat metallic green or bronze.
Anthracothorax gramineus (extralimital).[2]
- ff. No black on chest. (Panamá, and southern Costa Rica.)
- ff. No black on chest. (Panamá, and southern Costa Rica.)
Anthracothorax veragnensis, adult male (p. 467).
- ee. Chest wholly black.
- f. Under parts of body mostly (sometimes wholly[3]) black; upper parts dark or deep bronze-green; larger (wing averaging 67.9, tail 42.9, culmen 23.8). (Island of Haiti.)
- ee. Chest wholly black.
Anthracothorax dominicus, adult male (p. 468).
- ↑ Lampornis iridescens Gould, Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 65 Guayaquil, w. Ecuador; coll. J. Gould). — Anthracothorax violicaudus iridescens Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiv, no. 1258, Jan., 1902, 321 (Nanegal, w. Ecuador; crit.).
- ↑ [Trochilus] gramineus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 488 (based on Hausse col vert Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vi, 58; Black-breasted Hummingbird Latham, Synopsis, i, pt. 2, 756). — Trochilus gramineus Audebert and Vieillot, Ois. Dorés, i, 1801, 23, pl. 9. — Lampornis gramineus Gould, Mon. Troch., ii, 1858, pl. 77; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 65; Elliot, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 40; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 95. — L[ampornis] gramineus Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 98 (monogr.). — [Polytmus] gramineus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 125, no. 1581. — Anthracothorax gramineus Berlepsch, Novit. Zool., xv, 1908, 263 (Cayenne; crit.). — [Trochilus] maculatus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 488 (based on Colibri à eravate verte Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vi, 56; Colibri à gorge verte de Cayenne Buffon, PI. Enl., pl. 671, fig. 1; Green-throated Hummingbird Latham, Synopsis, i, pt. 2, 755). — [Trochilus] pectoralis Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 306 (=T. gramineus Gmelin). — Polytmus dominicus (not Trochilus dominicus Gmelin) Léotaud, Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 132.
- ↑ Except for white femoral tufts.