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Chars, suhsp. — Size rather large; colors of neck dark and purplish; 

 lower parts dark. 



Description.— Adult male, No. 222010, U.S.N.M.; I'On Swamp, 

 Christchurch Parish, South Carolina, April 26, 1911 ; Dr. E. A. Mearns; 

 original number, 19115. Pileum, occipital crest, postocular region, and 

 a short subauricular streak, deep, glossy bottle green; malar stripe 

 cream buff; submalar stripe purplish maroon mixed with blackish; 

 cheeks, auriculars, sides and back of neck, purplish maroon, somewhat 

 more rufescent anteriorly, paler and somewhat glaucous posteriorly; 

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

 pointed, plume-like feathers of back and scapulars glaucous and some- 

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

 dark greenish-blue slate color, the innermost primaries and outei'most 

 secondaries narrowly tipped with white; tertials, outer webs of inner 

 secondaries, with greater, median, and lesser wing-coverts, dark, 

 glossy bottle green, the tertials pointed but not plume-like; the outer 

 scapulars on exterior webs and the first rows of lesser wing-coverts 

 margined all around rather narrowly with tawny ochraceous, the 

 other rows and median coverts with buff, the greater coverts and 

 outer webs of tertials and innermost secondaries with white; tail dull, 

 dark, grayish blue-green; chin and middle of upper throat creamy 

 white, streaked medially with dark blackish brown, sparingly on the 

 former, heavily on the latter; jugulum purplish maroon, conspicu- 

 ously streaked medially with creamy white and dark brown; breast, 

 abdomen, sides, crissum, and axillars, slate gray, with a slight brownish 

 tinge, the longest feathers of under tail-coverts with darker centei-s 

 and paler margins; thighs rufescent; lining of wing slate gray, the 

 feathers margined with buff, the edge of wing broadly buffy white. 



" Bill deep black, the lower mandible sometimes partly yellowish 

 or greenish; lores and orbits varying from olive-green to bright 

 yellow; iris gamboge yellow; legs and feet olive green or olive yellow, 

 the scutellse more greenish; claws horn-color" (Ridgway). 



Measurements. — Total length (in flesh), 394-490 mm.; extent of 

 wing, 521-711; weight, 6.25-7.50 ounces. 



Male:^ Wing, 176-188 (average, 181.1) mm.; tail, 61.5-71 (66.5); 

 exposed culmen, 58-69 (60.9); height of bill at base, 11-13 (12.1); 

 tarsus, 51-57 (53) ; middle toe, 44.3-48.5 (45.0). 



Female:^ Wing, 170-183.5 (175.1) mm.; tail, 58.5-74.5 (65.5); 

 exposed culmen, 56-62.5 (59.8) ; height of bill at base, 9.0-12.8 (11.7) ; 

 tarsus, 48-55 (51.2); middle toe, 44-49 (45.7). 



Type-locality. — Coast of South Carolina.^ 



1 Fourteen specimens, from Peimsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, 

 and Kansas. 



2 Tliirteen specimens, from New York.New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Indiana, Missouri, 

 and Kansas. 



3 Here for the first time definitely fixed. 



