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producing a conspicuous squamate effect; rest of plumage plain 

 slate color, darker on primaries and tail, paler (dark gull gray to 

 slate-gray) below, this shading gradually into the purple-drab of 

 breast; bill lake-red, white or yellowish white at tip; iris with an 

 inner ring of scarlet and an outer one of golden yellow; bare orbital 

 space dull red, with a fine yellow bloom," or yellow; 6 legs and feet 

 lake red; length (skins), 325-409 (366); wing, 184-224 (208.4); 

 tail, 123-153 (137.3); culmen, 14-20 (16.7); tarsus, 25-30.5 (27.7); 

 middle toe, 31-39 (33.5)." 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but duller in color, the 

 head, neck, and chest much less purplish, the color of back, scapulars, 

 innermost wing-coverts, and tertials more brownish, and color of 

 under parts lighter; length (skins), 339-386 (361); wing, 182-219 

 (203.4); tail, 119-149 (132.7); culmen, 15.5-18 (16.6); tarsus, 25-29 

 (26.5); middle toe, 30-36 (32.6). d 



a A. and E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, 252 (St. Croix specimens). 

 6 Hartert, Ibis, 1893, 333, and Cory, Pub. 137 Field Mus. N. H., 

 specimens). 



c Thirty-nine specimens. 

 d Eighteen specimens. 



Locality. 



, 210 (Bonaire 



Middle 

 toe. 



HALES. 



Eight adult males from Cuba 



Four adult males from Santo Domingo . 



Seven adult males from Porto Eico 



Two adult males from Culebra 



One adult male from Vieques 



One adult male from St. Thomas 



Two adult males from St. Johns 



One adult male from St. Croix 



One adult male from Antigua 



One adult male from Guadeloupe 



Four adult males from Dominica 



One adult male from Martinique 



Three adult males from Santa Lucia 



One adult male from St. Vincent 



One adult male from Grenada 



One adult male from Curacao 



FEMALES. 



Six adult females from Cuba 



Two adult females from Santo Domingo 



Two adult females from Porto Rico 



One adult female from St. Johns 



One adult female from St. Eustatius 



One adult female from Guadeloupe 



Two adult females from Dominica 



One adult female from Santa Lucia 



One adult female from St. Vincent 



One adult female from Curacao 



34.1 



33.3 



31.5 



33 



35 



35 



36.5 



35 



39 



33.9 



35 



34.2 



35 



32 



31.5 



32 



33 



32.5 



33.5 



36 



30 



33.2 



33 



32 



