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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



ceerulean blue); malax stripe, chin, and lower foreneck white; throat 

 soft geranium red, the feathers nairowly tipped with silvery white; 

 under parts of body mostly white, the chest usually faintly shaded 

 with pale purplish gray, the sides of breast strongly shaded with 

 darker bluish gray (sometimes unifonn bluish gray or grayish blue); 

 flanks soft geranium pink, this color sometimes tinging entire sides; 

 imder tail-coverts bright sulphur yellow; axillars and under wing- 

 coverts lighter sulphur yellow, the edge of wing white; maxilla light 

 horn brown to nearly black; mandible pale brown or brownish white 

 (pink or yellow m life?); legs and feet brownish (in dried skins). 



AduU maZe.— Length (skins), 87-98 (93); wing, 42-46 (43.9); 

 tail, 27-32 (29.7); exposed culmen, 16-19 (17.3); tarsus, 12.5-14.5 

 (13.5); middle toe, 8-9 (8.4).« 



AduU female.— Length (skins), 87-96 (92); wing, 41-45 (42.8); 

 tail, 26-29.5 (28.4); exposed culmen, 16-18.5 (17.5); tarsus, 12.5-14 

 (13.3); middle toe, 7.5-9 (8.3).* 



Island of Cuba (San Diego de los Banos, Trinid&d, El Guam&, San 

 Cristdbal, Cabanas, Batabano, and near Palficios, western Cuba; El 

 Cobre, Guamfi, San Luis, Monte Verde, Figuabas, Santiago, and 

 Guantanamo, eastern Cuba; Nuevo Gerona, Calle Bonita, and 

 Santa F6, Isle of Pines). 



(?) Todits viridis {not oi Linnseus) Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 

 184, part. 



Todus multicolor Goxtld, Iconea Avium, 1837, pi. 2. — D'Orbignt, in La Sagta'a 

 Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 132, pi. 22.— Grat, List Ksairostral Birds Brit. 

 Mus., 1848, 36. — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 182. — Gtjxdlach, Jovim. 

 fiir Om., 1856, 101 (habits); 1859, 347; 1861, 414 (descr. neat and eggs); 1862, 

 189; 1871, 288, 293; 1874, 146 (habits); Repert. Ksico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 

 253; Orn. Cubana, ed. 1895, 135.— Bretteb, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 

 1860, 307.— ScHLEQKL, Mus. Pays-Bas, iii, no. 10, 1863, 8, part (Cuba).— 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1874, 353 (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvii, 1892, 335 

 (San Crist6bal, Cuba). — Cory, Auk., iii, 1886, 372 (descr.; synonymy); 

 Birds West Ind., 1889, 167; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 103, 128 (Cuba; 



<» Twenty-four specimens. 



6 Eighteen specimens. 



Looalitr. 



Wing. 



TaU. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



Tarsus. 



Middle 

 toe. 



UALES. 



Nine adult moles from western Culia. . 



Six adult males from eastern Cuba 



Nine adult males from Isle of Pines . . . 



FKHALE9. 



Ten adult females from western Cuba 

 Six adult females from eastern Culia. 

 Two adult females from Me of Pines . . 



44.3 

 42.6 

 44.5 



43.1 

 42.2 

 43.2 



29.1 

 2S.7 

 31 



2S.S 

 28.2 

 28 



17.6 

 17.2 

 17.2 



17.7 

 17.3 

 16.7 



13.6 

 13.2 

 13.7 



13.2 

 13.2 

 14 



8.2 

 8.4 



S.4 

 8.: 

 8.S 



I am not able to detect any color differences in the three seriee. 



