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/. Wing not less than 129.5 (129.5-134.6). 



g. Head, neck, and body glossed with violet or purplish violet; wings 

 very faintly glossed with greenish; tip of bill more decurved. 



(Porto Rico. ) Holoquiscalns brachypterus, adult male ( p. 228) 



gg. Head, neck, and body glossed with violet-bluish; wings strongly 

 glossed with greenish ; tip of bill less decurved. ( Grand Cayman. ) 

 Holoquiscalua caymanensia, adult male (p. 229) 

 /. Wing less than 129.5 (117.6-127.5). 



g. Culmen, from base, more than 33 (35.6 or more). (Grenada.) 



Holoquiscalus lumiuosus, adult male (p. 232) 

 gg. Culmen, from base, less than 33. 

 h. Wing more than 116.8. 

 )' . Larger (wing averaging 126, tail 107, culmen 30. 9) . ( Santa Lucia. ) 

 HoloquiscaluB inflexirostris, adult male (p. 230) 

 ii. Smaller (wing averaging not more than 121.9, tail 98.3, or cul- 

 men 30.2). 

 ;. Bill relatively thicker, less decurved terminally. 

 A. Wing averaging 120.7. (Martinique.) 



Holoquiscalus martinicensis/ adult male (p. 231) 

 kk. Wing averaging 121.9. (Guadeloupe.) 



Holoquiscalus guadeloupensis, adult male (p 232) 

 jj. Bill relatively more slender, more decurved terminally. (Mar- 

 garita Island, Venezuela. ) 



Holoquiscalua insularia, adult male (extralimital)^ 



hh. Wing less than 116.8. 



i. Wing more than 109.2 (110.2-115.6); bill more slender (depth at 



base, 9.6-9.9). (Coastof Venezuela; Guiana; Trinidad; Tobago. ) 



Holoquiscalus lugubria, adult male (extralimita!)' 



ii. Wing less than 109.2 (104.4-109); bill stouter (depth at base, 



10.9-11.7.) (Barbados.) 



Holoquiscalus fortirostris, adult male (p. 229) 

 ee. Wings (except edges of primaries) glossed with purple or violet; culmen 

 very slightly decurved at tip. (Habitat unknown.) 



Holoquiscalus rectirostris, adult male (p. 233) 

 aa. Color not uniform black ; if approaching black the color sooty and not at all glossed. 

 6. Sooty black, 

 c. Wing 91.4-100.6, tail 76-78.7; bill very stout, its depth at base 9.9-11.4. 



Holoquiscalus fortirostris, adult female (p. 230) 

 cc. Wing 99.1, tail 79.7; bill slender, its depth at base 8.6. 



Holoquiscalus lugubria, adult female (extralimital)' 

 66. Grayish brown above (paler anteriorly); beneath lighter brownish gray. 

 c. Under parts deep grayish brown, becoming light brownish gray on throat. 

 d. Smaller, with more slender bill (wing 102.1, tail 80.3, culmen, from base, 

 27.9, depth of bill at base 6.1) 



Holoquiscalus insularis, adult female (extralimital)'' 



'Although referred by most authors to H. inflexirostris, the Martinique bird is so 

 much more like that of Guadeloupe that its separation from the latter may not prove 

 expedient. 



'Qwiscalus insularia Kichmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, Aug. 12, 1896, 675 

 (Margarita Island, Venezuela; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Holoquiscalus insularis Ridg- 

 way, Proc. Wash. Ac. Sci., iii, Apr. 15, 1901, 151. 



^Quiscalus lugubris Swainson, Anim. in Menag., 1838, 299, fig. 54c ("Brazil").— 

 Holoquiscalus lugubris Ridgway, Proc. Wash. Ac. Sci., iii, Apr. 15, 1901, 151. 



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