New Birds from Grenada and Dominica. 16.-) 



feathers of which are margined with dull pale rust-color ; the tail is blackish- 

 brown, with a wash of greenish; quills dark brown; the under plumage is dark 

 brownish-ash, lighter on the throat and breast, and fuliginous on the flanks, 

 lower part of abdomen, and under tail-coverts ; on the lower part of the neck 

 is a wash of dull rust color ; bill and feet black; " iris yellow." 



Length (fresh), 9 3-4 inches, wing 4 3-4; tail, 4; tarsus, 3-16 ; billl 1-8. 



Habitat : — Grenada. 



Types in National Museum, Washington. 



Remarks. The male of this species, in dimensions and 

 general appearance, somewhat resembles Q. brachypterus from 

 Porto Rico, hut is of a brighter and more uniform violet ; it 

 may be at once known by its upper and under tail-coverts 

 being green, the other having the upper-coverts colored like 

 the back, and the under ones black. The females are totally 

 unlike, — that sex in Q. brachypi&rus being black like the 

 male, only duller. 



In all the West Indian species of this genus, with which 1 

 am acquainted, except the bird now described, both sexes arc 

 black. 



