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wholly black; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 70-79 

 (75); wing, 41.5-45 (43.1); tail, 23.5-26 (24.4), middle rectrices, 

 17-22.5 (19); culmen, 14.5-16 (15.4).« 



Adult female. — Above rather dull metallic green or bronze-green, 

 the upper tail-coverts and middle pair of rectrices more bluish green; 

 tail (except middle pair of rectrices) glossy blue-black or black glossed 

 with greenish blue (this more greenish toward middle pair), two outer 

 rectrices tipped (second very narrowly) with pale brownish gray or 

 dull grayish white; remiges brownish slate, faintly glossed with pur- 

 plish; under parts pale brownish gray, fading into white on abdomen; 

 femoral tufts white; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 

 72-77 (75); wing, 41.5-45.5 (43.5); tail, 22.5-24 (23.2), middle rec- 

 trices, 21; culmen, 16.5-17 (16.7).^ 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult female, but tail wholly glossy 

 blue-black (as in adult male) and pale gray of under parts intermixed 

 with metallic green. 



Islands of Curasao, Aruba, Bonaire, Margarita, and Trinidad, and 

 adjacent coast district of Venezuela (La Guayra). 



Chlorostilhon atala (not Ornismya atala Lesson) Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xx, 

 Sept., 1860; vol. v, 1861, pi. 356; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 177 (crit.).— 

 Elliot, Ibis, 1875, 159 (synou.; crit.; Trinidad; Curasao); Classif. and 

 Synop. Troch., 1879, 246 (Triniddd).— Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 

 1892, 55 (excl. syn. part).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., vi, 1894, 58 

 (Trinidad). — Boucard, Gen. Hum. -Birds, 1894, 124 (monogr.). 



H[ylocharis] atala Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 115. 



(?) [Saucerottia] atala Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 77 (Brazil). 



[Chlorestes] atala Reichenbach, Troch. Enum., 1855, 4, pi. 700, fig. 4568. 



Chrysomirus atala Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 3, 

 1878, 199. 



Prasitis atala Boucard, The Hum. Bird, ii, 1892, 79 (Valencia, Colombia). 



Chlorostilbon caribmts Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., x, 1874 (pub. 

 March, 1871!), 13, 14 (Island of Curasao, Dutch West Indies; coll. G. N. 

 Lawrence). — Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1892, 87 (Curacao; crit.). — 

 Peters, Journ. fiir Orn., 1892, 119 (Curasao).— Hartert, Ibis, 1893, 299 

 (Aruba; crit.), 319 (Curasao; crit.; habits; descr. nest and eggs), 328 

 (Bonaire); Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 301 (islands of Aruba, Curasao, and 

 Bonaire).— Cory, Pub. 137, Field Mus. N. H., 1909, 200 (Aruba), 206 (Cura- 

 sao), 212 (Bonaire), 245 (Margarita). 



C[hlorostilbon] caribaeus Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 76 (monogr.). 



o Sixteen specimens. 



ft Two specimens, from Margarita Island. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Three adult males from coast of Venezuela (LaGuayra) 43.8 25.3 18.7 15.5 



Five adult males from Margarita Island 42.4 23.8 18 15.2 



Six adult males from Curasao 43.2 24.6 20.9 15.6 



Two adult males from Triniddd 43.5 24.2 17.5 15 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



