NO. lOlfi. RKVI^ION OF BUTORIDES VIRE8GEN8—0BERH0LSER. 573 



BUTORIDES VIRESCENS CURACENSIS, new subspecies. 



Gliars. suhsp. — Similar to Butorides virescens tohagensis, but decid- 

 edly smaller (except l)ill and tai-sus); neck and sides of liead darker, 

 less rufcsccnt (more pur])lisli) and not cjuite so dull; jugulum much 

 darker, less fulvescent (more purplish), and not different in color 

 from the adjoininf]j portion of neck; fjlaucous, lon<x, pointed, pluma- 

 ceous feathers of upper surface with numerous very evident, though 

 obsolescent, narrow, darker bars; breast and upper abdomen nar- 

 rowly and somewhat obscurely, though evidently, barred with darker 

 brownish gray. 



Description. — Type, adult male, No. 37409, Carnegie Museum; 

 St. Patrick, Curasao Island, West Indies, May 2, 1011; Af. A. Car- 

 riker, jr. Pileum, occi])ital crest, and postocular region, deep, 

 glossy bottle green; a short subauricular streak black; malar strij)e 

 bufT; submalar stripe somewhat ])ur]>lish chestnut mixed with black- 

 ish; cheeks, auriculars, sides and back of neck, j)uri)lish chestnut, 

 decidedly more fulvescent anteriorly, slightly glaucous posteriorly; 

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

 pointed, plume-like feathers of back and scai)ulars in part rather 

 oily or bronzy green, in part glaucous and somewhat bluish, and with 

 very narrow, darker, somewhat obscure though very evident, cross- 

 bars, these giving to all these feathers a peculiar ''watered" appear- 

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

 greenish-blue slate color, most of the ])rimaries and the outermost 

 secondaries tipped with white; tertials, median and lesser wing- 

 coverts, dark, glossy bottle green; outer scapulars margined on outer 

 webs with dark, dull chestnut; most of the lesser wing-coverts mar- 

 gined all around with tawny, some of them with s])ots of bulT}^ or 

 whitish ; median coverts broadly margined with tawny ochraceous ; 

 greater coverts narrowly edged with whitish or bufTy, some of them 

 having also small ternunal whitish shaft spots; primaiy coverts 

 with large sub-triangular terminal shaft spots of white or cream 

 bufT; tail dull, brownish bottle green, with a few obsolescent, narrow, 

 grayish })ars, and a narrow light brownish tij); chin and middle of 

 upper throat bufTy white, streaked medially with dark blackish 

 brown, sparingly on the former, more heavily on the latter; jugulum 

 purplish chestnut, streaked medially with white and a little with 

 dark brown; breast, abdomen, sides, crissum, and axillars, slate gray 

 with a brownish tinge, the middle of abdomen rather jialer, the long- 

 est lower tail-coverts with whitish centers, the breast and upjier 

 abdomen with numerous narrow, obsolescent, darker bars; thighs 

 rufescent; lining of wing rather light gi'ay, mixed with cream white, 

 cream buff, and a little ochraceous, the edge of wing broadly- cream 

 wliite. 



