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Qluiscalus'] purpuralm Bonaparte, C'Onsp. Av., i, 1850, 424. 



Quiscalus purpiireus {not oiWoodhoum, 1853) Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



1866, 403, part (ex Gracula -purpim'a Bartram, Trav. Florida, 1791, 290,= 



nomen nudum). — Ridgway, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1869, 133 (crit.) ; 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 183, 278; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 278.— 



CouEs, Check List, 1873, no. 225, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 335; Birds N. W. 



1874, 203, part (in synonymy). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 



Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 214, part, pi. 37, fig. 1. — Merriam, Trans. Conn. Acad., 



iv, 1877, 46 (Connecticut, summer resid. ). — Maynard, Birds E. N. Am., 



1881, 148 part.— Warren, Rep. Penn. Board Agric. for 1883, 214-217 (habits, 



food, etc. ) . 

 IQuiscalus] purpureus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 160, part. 

 Qluiscalus} purpureus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 413. 

 IQuiscalus purpureus] var. purpureus Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridg- 



way's Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 213. 

 [Quiscalus inirpureus.'] Yar. purpureus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway", Hist. N- 



Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 215. 

 IQuiscalus purpureus] a., purpureus Coues, Birds, N. W., 1874, 203 (synonymy). 

 (?) Quiscalus purpureus var. aglieus (not Quiscalus aglums, Baird?) Brown, Bull. 



Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 10 (Coosada, xllabama, resident) . 

 Q[uiscalus] versicolor typicus Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 394, in 



text. 

 [Quiscalus versicolor] a. Subsp. typica Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 



395, in list of. specimens (Pennsylvania; Maryland; Virginia). 



QUISCALUS QUISCULA AGLIEUS (Baird). 

 FLORIDA GRACKLE. 



Similar to Q. q. quiscula^ but decidedly smaller (except bill and feet), 

 and coloration far less variable; adidt male with color of head, neck, 

 and chest varying- from dark purplish l^ronze to violet (the head usually 

 more bluish); back, scapulars, and sides of breast dark olive-green or 

 dull bottle green, often nearly uniform, but always with at least con- 

 cealed bars of other metallic hues; rump varying from purplish bronze 

 to violet, usually more or less spotted with steel blue, bronze, etc. ; 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts dark violet, sometimes mixed with dark 

 blue; prevailing color of wings varying from violet-purple to steel blue 

 (the color most pronounced on greater coverts and secondaries), the 

 middle and lesser coverts more or less barred with various metallic 

 hues (as in Q. q. quiseula). 



Adult male.— length (skins), 276.9-297.2 (285.2); wing, 129-135.9 

 (133.1); tail, 116.1-128.5 (121.2); cidmen, from base, 31-35.1 (33.3); 

 depth of bill at base, 11.7-13.2 (13); tarsus, 35.6-37.3 (36.6); middle 

 toe, 24.1-26.7 (25.4).^ 



Adult fe7nale.—hength (skins), 233.7-261.6 (250.2); wing, 116.6-124.5 

 (119.1); tail, 100.8-111 (106.2); culmen, from base, 29.2-31.2 (30.2); 



' Ten specimens. 



