226 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



dd. Larger, with stouter bill (wing 104.1, tail 88.9, culmen, from base, 30.2, 

 depth of bill at base 9.9) . .Holoquisoalns luminosus, adult female (p. 232) 

 cc. Under parts light grayish brown, becoming buffy or whitish on throat. 

 d. Paler superciliary and malar stripes indistinct; throat pale broccoli brown. 



HoloqniBcalas inflexiroBtris, adult female (p. 230) 

 dd. Paler superciliary and malar stripes very distinct; throat pale grayish buffy 

 or whitish, 

 e. Smaller, with larger feet and more slender bill' (wing averaging 105.4, 

 tarsus 32.3, middle toe, 23.4, depth of bill at base 9.4) . 



Holoquiscalus martinieensis, adult female (p. 231) 

 ee. Larger, with smaller feet and stouter bill' (wing averaging 106.7, tarsus 

 31.7, middle toe 22.9, depth of bill at base 10.2). 



Holoquiscalus gnadeloupensis, adult female (p. 232) 



HOLOQUISCALUS GUNDLACHII (Cassin). 

 CUBAN GRACELE. 



Admit male. — Head, neck, body, and smaller wing-coverts uniform 

 glossy violet-black, the gloss becoming more blue on tail-coverts; 

 wings and tail black, the larger wing-coverts and secondaries strongly 

 glossed with bluish green, the primaries and rectrices more faintly 

 glossed with the same; bill, legs, and feet black; iris brown^; length 

 (skins), 279.^288.3(283.2); wing, US. 6-154. 9 (150.6); tail, 124.Y-132.6 

 (129.3); culmen, from base, 35.6-41.4 (37.3); depth of bill at base, 

 12.2-12-7 (12.4); tarsus, 38.6-41.4 (39.9); middle toe, 28.5-30 (29.2).' 



Adult female. — Similar to the male, but decidedly smaller, the gloss 

 to the plumage less pronounced and bluish rather than violet; length 

 (skins), 231.1-264.2 (252.2); wing, 118.9-133.4 (127); tail, 99.1-116.8 

 (108.5); culmen, from base, 32.5-32.8 (32.5); depth of bill at base, 10.9- 

 11.7 (11.4); tarsus, 33.5-36.6 (35.3); middle toe, 22.9-25.1 (24.4).* 



Island of Cuba, Greater Antilles, including adjacent islands of Lif.tle 

 Cayman, Cayman Brae, and Isle of Pines. 



Quiscalus versicolor (not of Vieillot) Vigors, Zool. Journ., iii, no. xi, 1827,442 



(Cuba). 

 Quiscalus harytus (not Gracula harita Linnseus) D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hiat. 



Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 120, pi. 18. 

 Quiscalus baritus Thibnbmann, Journ. fiir Orn., 1857, 151. 

 Chlalcophanes] baritus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, Sept., 1851, 197, excl. syn. 



(Cuba) 

 Chalcophanes baritus Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 15. 

 Calcophanes baritus Brewer, Proc. Best. Sec. N. H., vii, 1860, 307. 

 Quiscalus gundlacMi Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xviii, Dec, 1866, 406 



(Cuba; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 226; Birds W. I., 



1889, 113. 



' Since these differences of proportions do not appear in measurements of males of 

 the two forms they probably will prove inconstant in case of females, and therefore 

 not to be relied on. 



^ "Irides hazel"; J. H. Riley, manuscript. 



'Five specimens. 



*Three specimens. 



