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of Buiion/ and as such pertains exclusively to the ^een heron from 

 Martinique, the name for which thus becomes Butorides virescens 

 maculatus (Boddacrt). The subspecies seems to be confined to this 

 island. 



Three s})ecimens examined. 



Measurements of specimens of Butorides virescens maculatus. 



Museum and number. 



M. C. Z.,2S693' 



M. V. Z.,'.\sti;)4> 



Field Mus. N. H., 33710. . . 



Sex. 



[Male] i 

 , ..do.». 

 ...do.*. 



Date. 



Nov. 12,1886 



Middle 

 toe. 



mm. 

 4.3.5 

 46.8 

 39.5 



BUTORIDES VIRESCENS LUCIANUS, new subspecies. 



Cfhars. suhsp. — Much hke Butorides virescens maculatus, and in color 

 scarcely distinguishable, but smaller throughout, especially in length 

 of the wing and tail. 



Description.— Tj^e, adult male. No. 115883, U.S.N.M.; Port Cas- 

 tries, St. Lucia Island, West Indies, December 1, 1888; H. E. Par- 

 menter. Pileum, occipital crest, postocular region, and a short 

 subauricular streak, deep, glossy bottle green; malar stripe cream 

 white; submalar stripe light purplish chestnut mixed with blackish; 

 cheeks, auriculars, sides and back of neck rather light purplish chest- 

 nut, somewhat more rufescent anteriorly, slightly glaucous posteriorly; 

 upper surface of body deep bottle green, somewhat glossy, the long, 

 pointed, plume-like feathers of back and scapulars partly more oily 

 green, partly more bluish and a little glaucous; wings fuscous, the 

 primaries and outer secondaries dull, dark, greenish-blue slate color, 

 the innermost primaries and outermost secondaries narrowly tipped 

 with white ; tertials, outer webs of inner secondaries, and all the supe- 

 rior wdng-coverts, dark, glossy bottle green; the outer scapulars on 

 exterior webs and the first rows of lesser wing-coverts margined all 

 around with deep tawny, the other rows and the median coverts 

 with tawny ochraceous, the greater coverts and outer webs of tertials 

 and iimermost secondaries with ocliraceous buff; tail mostly deep, 

 glossy bottle green; chin and middle of upper throat cream white, 

 the latter streaked medially with Prout's brown; jugulum rather 

 light purplish chestnut, streaked medially with cream white; breast, 

 abdomen, sides, crissum, and axillars slate gray, with a slight brown- 

 ish tinge, and, on abdomen and crissum, somewhat paler, the longest 

 feathers of lower tail-coverts with darker centers ami paler margins; 

 thighs dull tawny oclu-aceous; lining of wing deep gray, some of the 



> Hist. Nat. des Olseaux [ed. Deux Fonts], vol. 14, p. 143; orig. e<i., vol. 7, 1780, p. 405. 



« Used in measurement averages on page 564. 



» From Martinique Island, collector unknown. 



< Nearly adult, but apparently not full grown. From Martinique Island, collected by W. E. Richardson. 



