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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



VOL. 42. 



Measurements of specimens of Butorides virescens anihonyi — Continued. 



Museum and number. 



U.S.N. M., 1355751. 



U. S.N. M., 1337311 



E. A. and O. Bangs, 

 16736.1 



D.S.N.M., 1337321 



U.S.N.M., 1347701. 

 U.S.N.M., 2042731. 



U.S.N. M., 495341.. 

 U.S.N.M., 125329.. 



U.S.N.M., 98487... 



Sex. 



Female 



.do. 

 .do. 



..do. 



.do. 

 .do. 



Locality. 



Gardner's 

 L aguna, 

 S a 1 t o n 

 River, L. 

 Cal. 



do 



Vicinity of 

 San Jose, 

 Costa Rica. 



Unlucky 

 Lake, San 

 Diego 

 County,Cal. 



do 



Tulare Lake, 

 9 miles east 

 of Lemoore, 

 Cal. 



Sacramento, 

 Cal. 



Berryessa, 

 Cal. 



Red Bluff, 

 Cal. 



Date. 



Apr. 25,1894 



do 



Nov. 27, 1896 



May 2, 1894 



Apr. 30,1894 

 June 21,1907 



June 10,1867 



May 9, 1884 



Collector. 



E. M. Meams. 



do 



C. F. Under- 

 wood. 



E. A. Meams. 



F. X. Holzner. 

 E. A. Gold- 

 man. 



R. Ridgway . . 



R. H. Beck... 



C. H. Town- 

 send. 



771771 



185.0 



192.0 

 195.0 



196.0 



190.0 



187.0 



191.0 

 195.0 

 193.0 



•a a 



(CO 



.2f rt 



771777 

 G9.0 



70.0 

 71.0 



■4.5 



67.0 

 0.0 



63.0 

 74.0 

 68.0 



mm 



62.0 



57.0 

 6L0 



60.0 



61.0 



mm 

 12.5 



12.0 

 13.0 



11.5 



12.3 

 12.0 



59.012.0 

 58.512.5 



mm 

 53.0 



54.0 

 54.5 



52.5 



52.0 

 52.0 



52.0 

 52.0 



mm 

 43.0 



44.5 

 47.0 



45.0 



45.5 

 43.5 



46.5 

 49.5 



51.0 47.0 



1 Used in measurement averages on p. 543. 

 BUTORIDES VIRESCENS EREMONOMUS.i new subspecies. 



Chars, suhsp. — Much like Butorides virescens anthonyi, but smaller 

 in all measurements; neck and sides of head darker, less fulvescent 

 (somewhat more purpUsh). 



Description. — Type, adult male. No. 124540, U.S.N.M., San Diego, 

 Chihuahua, Mexico, June 11, 1891; Frank Robinette. Pileum, 

 occipital crest, postocular region, and a short subauricular streak, 

 deep, glossy bottle green; malar stripe cream buff; submalar stripe 

 chestnut, mixed with blackish brown; cheeks, auriculars, sides and 

 back of neck, chestnut, decidedly purplish posteriorly, and some- 

 what paler anteriorly; upper surface of body deep, glossy bottle green, 

 the long, pointed, plume-like feathers of back and scapulars somewhat 

 bluish distally, the outer scapulars narrowly margined exteriorly 

 with tawny; wings fuscous, the primaries and outer secondaries 

 tinged with bluish green on exposed portions, the greater coverts and 

 a few of the inner primaries with white tips; tertials, outer webs of 

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

 grayish or brownish bottle green; lesser and median wing-coverts 

 margined rather narrowly all around with ochraceous or buff, the 

 greater coverts, outer webs of tertials and innermost secondaries, with 

 white ; tail dull, dark, grayish blue-green ; cliin and middle of upper 

 throat buffy white, medially streaked with dark blackish brown; 

 jugulum purplish chestnut, conspicuously streaked with creamy 



» The gender of Butorides is masculine, not feminine, as appears to be the general impression. 



