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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



neck, and sides of neck uniform light cerulean or turquoise blue, the 

 feathers dusky grayish beneath the surface; back, scapulars, wing- 

 coverts, tertials, and upper tail-coverts uniform olive-green, glossed 

 with metallic bluish green; rump yellowish olive-green, or bright 

 olive-yellowish; secondaries, primaries, and rectrices blackish or dusky, 

 edged with olive-green, the edgings on primaries narrower and inclin- 

 ing to pale grayish; lores blackish; suborbital, auricular, and malar 

 regions dusky olive-green, the last sometimes partly yellow; chin and 

 throat lemon yellow; rest of under parts uniform yellowish olive-green; 

 under wing-coverts whitish, tinged with yellow; axillars^ light yellow; 

 bill black, with basal portion of mandible grayish; iris brown; '■ legs 

 and feet horn color (in dried skins); length (skins), 106.7-120.7 (112.8); 

 wing, 60.2-65.3 (63); tail, 37.6-41.1 (39.1); exposed culmen, 7.1-7.9 

 (7.6); depthof bill at base, 4.6-5.1 (4.8); tarsus, 15-17.6 (16.3); middle 

 toe, 10.2-11.9 (11.2).^ 



Admit female. — Similar to adult male, but olive-green of back, wings, 

 etc., decidedly lighter and without metallic bluish green gloss; rump 

 much less yellowish; j^ellowof chin and throat paler and less strongly 

 contrasted with color of cheeks and auriculars, the latter yellowish 

 olive-green instead of dusky bluish olive-green; under parte usually 

 paler and less yellowish olive-green; blue of hood usually slightly paler 

 and duller, sometimes more greenish blue; black bar between yellow 

 of forehead and blue of crown much less distinct, sometimes obsolete; 

 length (skins), 101.6-121.9(111); wing, 58.9-67.6 (62.2); tail, 37.1-40.6 

 (38.4); exposed culmen, 7.4r-7.9 (7.6); depth of bill at base, 4.8-5.1 (4.8); 

 tarsus, 15.7-17 (16.5); middle toe, 10.7-11.9 (11.2).' 



Lesser Antilles (islands of St. Bartholomew, Guadeloupe, Dominica, 

 Martinique, Santa Lucia, St. Vincent, and Grenada). 



' " Iris hazel;" (Ober, manuscript). 



'■' Ten specimens. 



■'' Ten specimens. Specimens from different islands average as follows: 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Exposed 

 culmen. 



Depth 

 of bill 

 at base. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Three adult males from Guadeloupe . . 



Two adult males from Grenada 



Two adult males from Santa Lucia 



One adult male from St. Vincent 



One adult male from St. Bartholomew 

 One adult male from Martinique 



FEMALBS. 



Two adult females from Guadeloupe . . 

 Two adult females from Santa Lucia . . 



Four adult females from Dominica 



One adult female from Martinique 



64.8 



62 



61 



66 



61.5 



62.7 



62.2 

 69.9 

 64.5 

 61.7 



38.6 

 37.6 

 41.1 

 38.9 

 38.6 



38.1 

 37.3 

 39.6 

 36.1 



7.6 

 7.4 

 7.1 

 7.4 

 7.9 

 7.9 



7.4 

 7.4 

 7.6 

 7.4 



4.8 

 4.8 



4.8 

 5.1 

 4.8 



4.8 

 4.8 

 4.8 



16.5 



16.3 



16.5 



16 



16.5 



16 



16.5 

 16.5 

 16.8 

 17 



11.4 

 11.4 

 11.2 

 10.7 

 10.2 

 11.9 



11.4 

 10.9 

 11.2 

 U.9 



