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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



neck, and sides of neck uniform light cerulean or turquoise blue, the 

 feathers dusky grayish beneath the surface; back, scapulars, wing- 

 coverts, tertials, and upper tail-coverts uniform olive-green, glossed 

 with metallic bluish green; rump yellowish olive-green, or bright 

 olive-yellowish; secondaries, primaries, and rectrices ])lackish or dusky, 

 edged with olive-green, the edgings on primaries narrower and inclin- 

 ing to pale grayish; lores blackish; suborbital, auricular, and malar 

 regions dusky olive-green, the last sometimes partly yellow; chin and 

 throat lemon yellow; rest of under parts uniform yellowish olive-green; 

 under wing-coverts whitish, tinged with yellow; axillars light yellow; 

 bill black, with basal portion of mandible grayish; iris brown; ^ legs 

 and feet horn color (in dried skins); length (skins), 106.7-120.7 (112.8); 

 wing, 60.2-65.3 (63); tail, 37.6-41.1 (39.1); exposed culmen, 7.1-7.9 

 (7.6); depth of bill at base, 4.6-5.1 (4.8); tarsus, 15-17.5 (16.3); middle 

 toe, 10.2-11.9 (11. 2).*^ 



Adult female. — Similar to adult male, but olive-green of back, wings, 

 etc., decidedly lighter and without metallic bluish green gloss; rump 

 much less yellowish; yellow of chin and throat paler and less strongly 

 contrasted with color of cheeks and auriculars, the latter yellowish 

 olive-green instead of dusky bluish olive-green; under parts usually 

 paler and less yellowish olive-green; blue of hood usually slightly paler 

 and duller, sometimes more greenish blue; black bar between yellow 

 of forehead and blue of crown much less distinct, sometimes obsolete; 

 length (skins), 101.6-121.9 (111); wing, 58.9-67.6 (62.2); tail, 37.1-40.6 

 (3S.4); exposed culmen, 7.4-7.9 (7.6); depth of bill at base, 4.8-5.1 (4.8); 

 tarsus, 15.7-17 (16..5); middle toe, 10.7-11.9 (11.2).' 



Lesser Antilles (islands of St. Bartholomew, Guadeloupe, Dominica, 

 Martinique, Santa Lucia, St. Vincent, and Grenada). 



' "Iris hazel;" (Ober, manuscript). 



'^ Ten specimens. 



^ Ten specimens. Specimens from different islands average as follows: 



