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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Range. — ^Lesser Antilles and adjacent small islantls of the Greater 

 Antilles (St. Thomas, Tortola, Virijin Gorda, Anegada, and St. Croix) ; 

 also island of Tobago. (Monotypic.) 



SERICOTES HOLOSERICEUS HOLOSERICEUS (Linnaeus). 



GREEN CARIB. 



Adult male. — Above metallic-green or bronze-green (often suffused 

 with bronze or coppery bronze), passing into bluish-green (some- 

 times into greenish blue or, rarely, violet-olive) on upper tail-coverts ; 

 tail slightly glossy blue-black (the middle rectrices sometimes more 

 greenish), the under surface more violaceous-black, tipped with blue- 

 black or dark steel blue; remiges dusky, faintly glossed with viola- 

 ceous, the inner secondaries more strongly glossed with greenish; 

 malar region, chin, throat, and foreneck bright metallic yellowish 

 green (apple green to light grass green), passing on sides of chest into 

 a more bluish green and this on center of chest into blue or greenish 

 blue, forming a more or less well-defined patch; under parts of body 

 black, glossed, more or less distinctly, with bluish green, green, or 

 bronzy; under tail-coverts bright metallic green or bluish green, with a 

 subterminal area of blue or violet-blue; femoral and lumbar tufts white; 

 bill dull black; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 99-121 

 (111); wing, 57-63 (61); tail, 31.5-36.5 (33.S); culmen, 20-26 (21.9).« 



o Thirty-three specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



MALE.S. 



One adult male from St. Thomas , 



Two adult males from St. Johns 



One adult male from St. Eustatius 



One adult male from St. Christopher 



One adult male from Nevis 



Six adult males from Barbuda 



Four adult males from Antigua 



Four adult males from Guadeloupe 



One adult male from Grande Terre 



Two adult males from Dominica 



Seven adult males from Martinique 



Two adult males from Santa Lucia 



One adult male from St. Vincent 



Four adult males from Barbados 



FEMALES, 



Two adult females from Culebra 



One adult female from St. Johns 



One adult female from St. Christojjher 



Four adult females from Barbuda 



Two adult females from Antigua 



One adult female from Guadeloupe 



Three adult females from Dominica 



One adult female from Martinique 



One adult female from St. Vincent 



Ten adult females from Barbados 



00.5 



00.7 



59.5 



59 



0L5 



58.3 



00.1 



0L2 



01 



59.2 



GO. 8 



CO. 2 



03 



02.7 



58.7 



59.5 



58.5 



59.4 



59.2 



58.5 



01 



59.5 



59.5 



01.3 



34 



32.5 



33.5 



34.5 



35 



33.3 



32.0 



33.9 



33 



34.7 



34.3 



34 



35.5 



34.1 



32,5 



34 



32.5 



33 



33.7 



33.5 



34.6 



34.5 



33.5 



33.9 



21.5 

 22.2 



20.5 



21 



22.1 



21 



22.2 



22.5 



21.7 



21.9 



23.7 



21.5 



21.5 



23.5 



20 



24 



22.7 



23.7 



26 



23.8 



25.5 



24.1 



24.4 



