BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLP: AMERICA. 55d 



dark brownish slate or dusky, faintly glossed with violaceous; under 

 parts brilliantly metallic golden green, purer (less yellowish) green 

 anteriorly; femoral tufts white; maxilla blackish or dusky for ter- 

 minal half or more, fading into light brownish (reddish in life?) 

 basally; mandible pale brownish (pinkish or flesh-colored in life), 

 passing into dusky at tip; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length 

 (skins), 95-105 (99); wing, 47-50.5 (48.3); tail, 39-45 (42.5), middle 

 rectrices, 16-18.5 (17.2); culmen, 14.5-15.5 (14.9).« 



Adult female. — Above metallic green or golden green, the pileum 

 not more brilliant than back, etc.; four middle rectrices metallic 

 green or golden green, sometimes darker terminally or subterminally; 

 third rectrix with terminal third or fourth of outer web blue-black or 

 black glossed with violet-blue, the remaining portion metallic green, 

 the inner web with terminal portion blackish, middle portion brown- 

 ish gray, basal portion metallic greenish; fourth rectrix (from middle) 

 dusky metallic greenish basally, middle portion light brownish gray, 

 subterminal portion (extensively) glossy blue-black, tip pale brownish 

 gray or grayish white; fifth (outermost) rectrix similar, but whitish 

 tip more extensive, and blackish subterminal area correspondingly 

 more restricted ; remiges dark brownish slate or dusky, faintly glossed 

 with violaceous; under parts plain grayish white or very pale gray; 

 iemoral tufts white; bill, etc., as in adult male, but maxilla more 

 extensivel}'' blackish and mandible with more of dusky at tip; length 

 (skins), 83-91 (88); wing, 46-48.5 (47.2); tail, 31-35 (32.8), middle 

 rectrices, 21.5-24 (22.6); culmen, 15-16.5 (15.8).^ 



Islands of Cozumel, Mugeres, and Holbox, oft' coast of Yucatan. 



Chlorostilbon forjicatus Ridgway, Descr. New Sp. B. Cozumel, Feb. 26, 1885, 3 

 (Cozumel I., Yucatan: coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., iii, 

 1885, 3; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 574 (descr.; crit.).— Salvin, Ibis, 

 1889, 366 (Mugeres I., Holbox I., and Cozumel I., Yucatan; crit.); Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 46. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 

 1892, 263. 



C[hlorostilbon]forJicatus Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 74 (monogr.). 



[Chlorostilbon] forjicatus Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 112. 



Chlorolampis forftcata Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1894, 113 ("Yucatan"). 



Chlorostilbon caniveti (not Ornismya canivetii Lesson) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, 119 

 (Cozumel I,; crit.). 



CHLOROSTILBON CANIVETII CANXVETH ^Lesson). 



CANIVET'S EMERALD. 



Similar to C. forjicatus, but tail much less dee})ly forked and wing 

 decidedly shorter. 



Adult male. — Pileum bright metallic golden green or golden; rest 

 of upper parts less brilliant golden green, varying to almost golden 

 bronze; tail glossy blue-black or black glossed w^ith l)lue, the four to 



« Ten specimens. b Six specimens. 



