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Adult mafe.— Length (skins), 236.2-254 (239.3); wing, 131.3-141 

 (136.1); tail, 105.2-112.8 (109); culmen (from base), 24.9-27.7 (25.7); 

 depth of bill at base, 11.7-13.2 (12.7); tarsus, 32.6-35.6 (33.8); middle 

 toe, 23.9-27.7 (25.7).' 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 217. 2-243. 8 (228.3); wing, 122.4-132.6 

 (128.5); tail, 97.3-105.9 (101.6); culmen (from base), 22.9-24.4 (23.6); 

 depth of bill at base, 10.9-12.2 (11.7); tarsus, 30-32.3 (31); middle toe, 

 22.6-23.4 (23.1).' 



Island of Cuba (including Isle of Pines), Greater Antilles. 



Qmcalus atrwAolaceus D'Ob-bigny, inLaSagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Oia., 1839, 121. — 



Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 227; Birds W. I., 1889, 114. 

 [Quiscalus] atroviolaceus Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 14. 

 S[caphidurus] atroviolaceus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 341. 

 Sc[aphidurus] atroviolaceus Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i, 1850, 426. 

 Sc[olecophagm} atroviolaceus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, Sept., 1851, 196. 

 Scolecophagus atroviolaceus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., iv, 1856, 15 (descr. eggs) . — 



Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307.— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 



Phila., 1866, 415 (monogr.). — Gundlach, Report. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 1866, 



259; Journ. fiir Orn., 1874, 134. 

 Dives atroviolaceus'ScLATER, Ibis, 1884, 152 (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xi, 



1886, 393 (San Cristobal, Cuba).— Coey, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 15, 111, 129 



(Cuba and Isle of Pines). 

 Ptiloxena atroviolaceus Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, no. 1, Dec, 1892, 307. 

 (?) Chalcophanes quiscalus Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 16 (Cuba) ; 1871, 288 



(do.). 

 (?) Scolecophagus sequatorialis (not Quiscalus eequatorialis Sclnter) Cassin, Proc. Ac. 



Nat. Sci. Phila., Dec, 1866, 414 (no locality; crit.) 



Genus DIVES Cassin. 



Dives Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xviii, Dec, 1866, 413. (Type, Lampropsar 

 dives Bonaparte. ) 



Medium-sized Icteridae of uniform black coloration, with bill shorter 

 than head, wing rather short and rounded, tail nearly as long as 

 wing, rounded, with very broad rectrices, and stout feet. 



Bill slightly to decidedly shorter than head, narrowly conical, com- 

 pressed, rather obtuse, its basal depth a little less than one-half the length 

 of culmen, its basal width decidedly less; culmen nearly straight but 

 slightly convex, broad but not flattened, ridged laterally above nasal 

 fossse; gonys straight or verj^ faintlj^ convex, slightly shorter than 

 distance from nostril to tip of maxilla; commissure nearly straight to 

 the rictal portion, where strongly deflexed. Nostril small, roundish, 

 posteriorly touching feathers of frontal antias, overhung by a convex 

 membranous operculum. Wing moderate or rather short (about four 

 and a half times as long as culmen); wing-tip short (about as long 

 as maxilla from frontal antise), rounded; outermost (ninth) primary 

 shorter than second, the fifth longest, but eighth, seventh, sixth, and 

 fourth nearly as long; inner webs of outermost primaries not sinuated. 



'Five specimens. 



