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Adult maZd.— Length (skins), 236.2-254 (239.3); wing, 131.3-141 

 (136.1); tail, 105.2-112.8 (109); culmen (from base), 24.9-27.7 (25.7); 

 depth of bill at base, 11.7-13.2 (12.7); tarsus, 82.6-35.6 (33.8); middle 



toe, 23.9-27.7 (25.7).^ 



J[^?/Z^/.^;;^«/e. -Length (skins),217.2-243.8(228.3);wing,122.1-132.6 



(128.5); tail, 97.3-105.9 (101.6); culmen (from base), 22.9-24.4 (23.6); 

 depth of bill at base, 10.9-12.2 (11.7); tarsus, 30-32.3 (31); middle toe, 

 22.6-23.4 (23.1).' 



Island of Cuba (including Isle of Pines), Greater Antilles. 



QMisc«Zwsr(iromoface«s D'Orbigny, inLaSagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 121.— 



Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 227; Birds W. I., 1889, 114. 

 S^Quumlml atroviolaceua Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 14. 

 Slcaphidurus] atroviolaceus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 341. 

 Sc[aphidurus] atroviolaceus Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i, 1850, 426. 

 Sc{olecophagus\ atroviolaceus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, Sept., 1851, 196. 

 Scolecophagus atroviolaceus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., iv, 1856, 15 (descr. eggs).— 



Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307.— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 



Phila., 1866, 415 (monogr.).— Gundlach, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 1866, 



259; Journ. fur Orn., 1874, 134. 

 Dives atroviolaceus ScLATEJi, Ibis, 1884, 152 (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xi, 



1886, 393 (San Cristobal, Cuba).— Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 15, 111, 129 



(Cuba and Isle of Pines). 

 Pliloxena atroviolaceus Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, no. 1, Dec, 1892, 307. 

 (?) Chalcophanes quiscalus Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 16 (Cuba) ; 1871, 288 



(do.). 

 (?) Scolecophagus lequntorialis (not Quiscalus xquatonalis Sdater) Cassin, Proc. Ac. 



Nat. Sci. Phila., Dec, 1866, 414 (no locality; crit.) 

 Genus DIVES Cassin. 



Dives Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xviii, Dec, 1866, 413. (Type, Lampropsar 

 dives Bonaparte. ) 



Medium-sized Icteridte of uniform black coloration, with bill shorter 

 than head, wing rather short and rounded, tail nearly as long as 

 wing, rounded, with very broad rectrices, and stout feet. 



Bill slightly to decidedly shorter than head, narrowly conical, com- 

 pressed, rather obtuse, its basal depth a 1 ittle less than one-half the length 

 of culmen, its basal width decidedly less; culmen nearly straight but 

 slightly convex, broad but not flattened, ridged laterally above nasal 

 fossfe; gonys straight or very faintly convex, slightly shorter than 

 distance from nostril to tip of maxilla; commissure nearly straight to 

 the rictal portion, where strongly deflexed. Nostril small, roundish, 

 posteriorly touching feathers of frontal antia?, overhung by a convex 

 membranous operculum. Wing moderate or rather short (about four 

 and a half times as long as culmen); wing-tip short (about as long 

 as maxilla from frontal anti»), rounded; outermost (ninth) primary 

 shorter than .second, the fifth longest, but eighth, seventh, sixth, and 

 fourth nearly as long; inner webs of outermost primaries not sinuated. 



* Five specimens. 



