56 Oberholser — The Status of Butorides brunescens (Lembeye). 



Measurements. — Male:* Wing, 171 mm.; tail, 64; exposed culmen, 

 6] ; height of bill at base, 12; tarsus, 49; middle toe without claw, !59. 



Female :t Wing, 163.5; tail, 61; exposed culmen, 60; height of bill at 

 base, 11.2; tarsus, 48.8; middle toe without claw, 42.8. 



Ti/pe locality. — Cuba. 



Geographical distribution. — Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



This species is apparently about the size of the Cuban form of Butorides 

 virescens, though the female seems to be appreciably smaller than the 

 male. Seasonal and individual variation are slight. 



The young bird in juvenal plumage differs from the adult much less 

 than in Butorides virescens, but it is rather lighter and more rufescent 

 below, particularly on the whole neck and sides of head ; lower posterior 

 surface less uniform; chin, cheeks, and median line of throat, jugulum, 

 and breast streaked more or less with blackish and huffy — on throat, 

 jugulum, and breast the shaft streaks are bufty, bordered on each side 

 with dark earthy brown ; upper surface of body duller, more greenish 

 (less bluish) ; and the edgings of upper wing-coverts are much broader. 



The specimens of Butorides brunescens examined are from Guama and 

 other unspecified localities in Cuba, and from Xueva Gerona, in the Isle 

 of Pines. 



* U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 172,179; Nueva Gerona. Isle of Pines, July 2, 1900; W. Palmer 

 and .1. II. Riley. 



iU. S. Nat. Mus., No. 172,720; Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, June 30, 1900; W. Palmer 

 and J. H. Riley. 



