14 Descrijption of Nevi Species of Birds from 



is of a brilliant uniform emerald-green, with a few white feathers on 

 the flanks ; tail steel-blue ; wings brownish-purple ; bill black ; feet 

 dark brown. 



Length about 3^ in. ; wing If ; tail 1|- ; bill f . 



Habitat. Island of Cura9ao. Type in my collection. 



Remarhs. Its nearest ally appears to be C. atala, but that 

 species is entirely of a golden-green ; the new species is only 

 slightly golden above, not the least so in its under-plum age, 

 where it is of a much darker shade of green, and more glitter- 

 ing ; the tail is strikingly larger and the feathers broader, the 

 color of which is more blue, that of C. atala being more of a 

 steel-black; the wings are longer, and the bill appears to be 

 stouter than in that species. 



Three specimens were presented to me by my friend, Mr. 

 T. Bland ; he obtained them from Mr. Henry H. Raven, who 

 brought them from the Island of Cura9ao. Two of the speci- 

 mens are immature males. 



13. Cosiiirms hoilochlorus var. I>revipes, Baird, 



M. S. 



Male. The general plumage is grass-green ; the abdomen is lighter 

 and has a yellowish cast ; ends and inner margins of quills blackish ; 

 inside of quills and under-surface of the tail dull yellowish ; bill 

 yellowish-white ; feet light yellow. 



There is no difference in the plumage of the sexes. 



Length (fresh) 12^ in. ; wing 6f ; tail 6|^; tarsi f. 



Habitat. Socorro Island, Mexico. Collected by Col. A. J. 

 Grayson, "Spring of 1S65." Type in Mus. Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, No. 39971. 



Remarks. Six specimens before me, compared with two ex- 

 amples of C. holochlorus from Salvador, have the toes uniformly 

 shorter ; the wMngs of the Socorro Island bird are half an inch 

 shorter than in. those from Salvador ; in plumage there is no 

 perceptible difference in the two forms. 



