NO. 1910. REVISION OF BUTORIDES VIRESCENS—OBERHOLSER. 567 



BUTORIDES VIRESCENS BARBADENSIS, new subspecies. 



Chars, suhs'p. — Resembling;; Butorides vlresccvs lucianvs, l)ut wing 

 and tail shorter; neck and sides of head more fulvescent and averag- 

 ing paler; posterior lower parts much lighter. 



Description. — Type, adult male, No. 12G29, collection of E. A. 

 and O. Bangs; Joe's River, Barbados Island, West Indies, September 

 11, 1903; Austin II. Clark. Pileum, occipital crest, postocular 

 region, and a short subauricular streak, deep, glossy bottle green; 

 malar stripe buffy white; submalar stripe tawny chestnut, mixed 

 with some blackish; checks, auriculars, sides and back of neck, 

 tawny chestnut, slightly purplish posteriorly; upper surface of body 

 deep bottle green, somewhat glossy, the long, pointed, plume-like 

 feathers of back and scapulars somewhat oily green or glaucous 

 bluish; wings fuscous, the primaries and outer secondaries dull, dark, 

 greenish-blue slate color; the mner primaries and outer secondaries 

 broadly tipped wdth wdiite; tertials, outer webs of inner secondaries, 

 with all the superior w^ing-coverts, dark, glossj?- bottle green; the 

 outer scapulars on exterior webs and the first rows of lesser wmg- 

 coverts margined all around with tawny, the remainmg wmg-coverts 

 and outer webs of tertials and innermost secondaries w4th ochra- 

 ceous, ochraceous buff, or buff (some of the greater coverts with 

 white); the primary coverts and some of the greater coverts 

 with triangular terminal spots of white, apparently a relic of imma- 

 turity; most of tail glossy, dark bottle green, the middle feather 

 greenish fuscous; chin and middle of upper tliroat white, the latter 

 streaked with clove brown; jugulum rather purplish tawny chestnut, 

 medially with conspicuous streaks of white and less marked ones of 

 duU brown; breast, sides, abdomen, crissum, and axiUars, smoke 

 gray, rather darker on breast, lighter on middle of abdomen, the 

 longest lower tail-coverts with fuscous termmal or subterminal 

 patches; thighs ochraceous, mixed with dull slaty brownish; lining 

 of wing pale gra}^, mixed with white and buff, the edge of wing very 

 broadly cream white. 



Measurements. — Male:* Wing, 163-166 (average, 164.9) mm.; 

 tail, 58-63.5 (59.8); exposed culmen, 55-59.5 (57.1); height of bill at 

 base, 11-12.8 (11.7); tarsus, 46-48.5 (47.1); middle toe, 40.5-42.5 

 (41.6). 



Female: 2 Wing, 162-172 (166.7) mm.; tail, 60-61.5 (60.8); ex- 

 posed culmen, 55.5-57 (56.3); height of bill at base, 12-13 (12.5); 

 tarsus, 46.5-50.5 (48.3); middle toe, 41-45 (42.7). 



Type-locality. — Joe's River, island of Barbados, West Indies. 



Geographical distribution. — Barbados Island, West Indies. 



This new subspecies resembles most closely in color Butorides 

 virescens haJiamensis, notwithstanding the wide geographic separa- 



> Four specimens, from Barbados Island, West Indies. 'Three specimens, from the same island. 



