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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Coloration. — Pileum, back, and under parts of body velvety black; 

 upper tail-coverts bright metallic bluish green; tail dark metallic 

 green or greenish black; wings (including remiges) bright metallic 

 bronze-green; chin, throat, and chest soft reddish purple. Sexes alike. 



Range. — Lesser Antilles. (Monotypic.) 



EULAMPIS JUGULARIS (Linnaeus). 



PURPLE CARIB. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Upper parts, except wings, upper tail-coverts, 

 and tail, uniform velvety black; upper tail-coverts metallic bluish 

 green or greenish blue; tail greenish black, glossed with metallic 

 bluish green; wings bright metallic green, the wing-coverts and sec- 

 ondaries more yellowish or golden green, the primaries more bluish 

 green, duller (nearly black on the two outermost); malar region, 

 chin, throat, and chest uniform metallic reddish purple (maroon 

 purple to nearly burnt carmine), this color encroaching on sides of 

 neck; under tail-coverts bright metallic bluish green or greenish 

 blue; rest of under parts velvety black; under surface of wings 

 metallic green, brightest on coverts; bill black; iris dark brown; feet 

 dusky. 



Immature. — Essentially like adults, but reddish purple of throaty 

 etc., narrower, restricted to a broad mecUan stripe, the lateral por- 

 tions (including malar region) black; black of upper parts glossed, 

 more or less, with bluish green (in younger individuals intermixed, 

 more or less, with brown feathers) . 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 114-136 (124); wing, 67-78.5 (74.3); 

 tail, 35-45 (39.9); culmen, 21-27.5 (22.8).« 



Adult female. —J jen^th. (skins), 114-132 (124); wing, 65-78 (71.1); 

 tail, 33.5-42.5 (38); culmen, 19-30 (25.2).^ 



« Thirty specimens. 



^ Fifteen specimens. 



Ivocality. 



MALE?. 



Two adult males from St. Christopher 76 39 24 



One adult male from Nevis 75 41 24 



Four adult males from Guadeloupe 72.6 39.5 ' 23.3 



Seven adult males from Dominica 75. 6 40. 7 22. 5 



Seven adult males from Martinique 75.6 41.6 22.3 



Eight adult males from St. Vincent 72 38 22.8 



One adult male from Barbados 78 41 23 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from St. Christopher 70.5 36.5 30 



Two adult females from Guadeloupe 89. 2 35. 7 25. 7 



Seven adult females from Dominica 73.1 39.6 24 



Two adult females from St. Vincent 66.5 34.5 25 



One adult female from Martinique 71 39 27 



Two adult females from Santa Lucia 70. 5 38. 5 26 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



