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ii. p. 276 (1874) ; id. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 20 (1876) ; 

 Hensh. Rep. Zool. JBxpl. p. 298 (1875) ; Merrill, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mia. 

 i. p. 128 (1878); Gundl. Orn. Cuba, p. 95 (1868) ; Belding, t. c. 

 p. 419 (1879) ; Cooper, op. cit. ii. p. 248 (1880) ; Breioster, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, vii. p. 13 (1883) ; Coues, Check-list, p. 59 (1882); 

 Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 444; Nutting % Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. vi. p. 392 (1883) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 390 

 (1884) ; Satv. $ Godm. Biol, Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 344 (1884) ; 



A. O. U Check-list, p. 287 (1886). 



Coccoborus cseruleus, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 277 (1837) ; Audub. 



B. Amer. iii. p. 204, pi. cciv. (1841) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 152 

 (1850) ; Lembeye, Av. Cuba, p. 61, pi. viii. tig. 2 (1850) ; Cab. 

 J. f. O. 1856, p. 9 ; Finsch, Abhandl. nat. Vet: Bremen, i. p. 339 

 (1870). 



Cyanoloxia crerulea, Bp. Consp. i. p. 502 (1850). 



Goniaphea cau-ulea, Scl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 301 ; Gray, Hand-l, B. ii. 



p. 103, no. 7535 (1870) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 149 (1872) ; 



id. B. N.-West, p. 169 (1874) ; Sennett, Bull. U.S. Geol, Surv. iv. 



p. 19 (1878), v. p. 392 (1879) ; Brown, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv. 



p. 9 (1879) ; Loomis, t. c. p. 214; Allen, op. cit. v. p. 184 (1880) ; 



Nehrl. op. cit. vii. p. 13 (1882). 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. General colour above glossy 

 greyish cobalt, rather darker and mixed with blackish bases on the 

 feathers of the mantle, scapulars, and upper back : the lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts much more brilliant than the mantle ; 

 lesser wing-coverts bright cobalt ; median coverts deep bay or chest- 

 nut ; greater coverts blackish, externally greyish blue (with generally 

 some slight remains of chestnut edges, the remains of winter 

 plumage) ; bastard- wing, primary- coverts, and quills blackish, ex- 

 ternally greyish blue, lighter and more hoary grey on the primaries ; 

 tail-feathers blackish, margined with greyish cobalt, and fringed at 

 the tip of the inner web with white, increasing in extent towards 

 the outermost feathers ; head and neck bright greyish cobalt, lighter 

 than the mantle, and of the same shade as the lower back and rump; 

 sides of the face, cheeks, and ear-coverts like the head ; in front of 

 the eye a black patch, extending from the base of the nostrils, and 

 occupying also the base of the cheeks and base of the throat ; entire 

 under surface of body bright cobalt, duller on the thighs and abdo- 

 men and under tail-coverts, the latter fringed with white as well as 

 the vent ; axillarics and under wing-coverts of the same colour as 

 the breast, with ashy bases ; quills dusky below, ashy along the 

 inner webs : " bill pale greyish blue beneath and on the edges of 

 the upper mandible, the rest of which is dusky " {Audubon) ; " legs 

 brownish black ; iris dark brown " (Dresser). Total length 6-4 

 inches, culmen - 75, wing 3-65, tail 2*85, tarsus 0'85. 



The breeding-plumage of the adult male is always accompanied by 

 a dark bill, the upper mandible being blackish in the skin, the lower 

 one blackish with cutting-edges and tips of yellowish horn-colour 

 As the season advances the blue margins to the feathers of the mantle 

 and upper back get worn off, and thus these parts assume a darker 

 appearance than the head and lower back and rump. The blue 

 edges to the wing-coverts and quills almost disappear, but the 



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