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three points visited (in Florida) noted the iris is light straw color. But 

 a series of twelve individuals collected at Clearwater, in a little lake where 

 they had just begun to breed, the date being 20th March, 1880, the iris 

 was deep lead color, and in one case brown or hazel. These are the only 

 individuals that I have taken at just this period, viz., at the beginning of 

 the breeding season, but this is apparently the color of the part in ques- 

 tion at that season." Scott, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI. No. i, Jan. 1881, p. 20. 



Fig. 203. 



Florida cicrulea, adult breeding male, white phase. 4054 Princeton University Collection. 

 About }^ natural size. 



White Phase. — Adult male breeding, P. U. O. C. 4054, Lake Butler, 

 Hillsboro County, 23 February, 1880, W. E. D. Scott. 



General color white. The same plumes that characterize the blue pJiase. 

 A very slight smoky shading on the crown and head plumes, the back of 

 the neck and on the interscapular area. Bluish showing on the extreme 

 ends of all the pyiinaries. Otherwise this bird \s pure white. 



Bill : Pale sage green at base, darkening abruptly terminally. Un- 

 fcathered region above the eye and lores ; pale sage green. 



P. U. O. C. 5279, Female Immature, Panasoffkee Lake, Sumpter County, 

 Florida, 13 January, 1876, W. E. D. Scott. 



Bill : Pale sage green, darker at the end. 



Iris : Pale straw color. Region about eye and lores : Pale sage green. 



Legs and feet : Pale sage green. 



Young birds of the year. — White, showing traces of bluish or smoky in 

 varying degree, usually on the crown, the back of the neck and on the 

 interscapular region. Some specimens show this coloring only on the 



