474 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. s 
Range.—Lesser Antilles and adjacent small islands of the Greater 
Antilles (St. Thomas, Tértola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, and St. Croix) ; 
also island of Tobago. (Monotypic.) 
SERICOTES HOLOSERICEUS HOLOSERICEUS (Linnzus). 
GREEN CARIB. 
Adult male.—Above metallic-green or bronze-green (often suffused 
with bronze or coppery bronze), passing into bluish-green (some- 
times into greenish blue or, rarely, violet-olive) on upper tail-coverts; 
tail slightly glossy blue-black (the middle rectrices sometimes more 
greenish), the under surface more violaceous-black, tipped with blue- 
black or dark steel blue; remiges dusky, faintly glossed with viola- 
ceous, the inner secondaries more strongly glossed with greenish; 
malar region, chin, throat, and foreneck bright metallic yellowish 
green (apple green to light grass green), passing on sides of chest into 
a more bluish green and this on center of chest into blue or greenish 
blue, forming a more or less well-defined patch; under parts of body 
black, glossed, more or less distinctly, with bluish green, green, or 
bronzy; under tail-coverts bright metallic green or bluish green, with a 
subterminal area of blue or violet-blue; femoral and lumbar tufts white; 
bill dull black; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 99-121 
(111); wing, 57-63 (61); tail, 31.5-36.5 (33.8); culmen, 20-26 (21.9).¢ 
@ Thirty-three specimens. 
Ex- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. _eeed 
MALES. 
One adult male from St. Thomas. .............2.-. 2-22.02 eee eee eee eee eee ee 60.5 34 21.5 
Two adult males from St. JONNY. ees cccccceeaciarw aman sieseuisce ssmeuvic csc ck 60.7 32.5 22.2 
One adult male from St. Eustatius.............-.2- 022-2 e eee eee eee eee eee eee 59.5 BOSD: [visisicsnes 
One adult male from St. Christopher. . . . steaks weet are od ee) 34.5 20.5 
One'adult:male from NoviS« -,..-. cane seemed cece sicmeenbaeeteeSeneesmeceeerence 61.5 35 21 
Six adult males from Barbuda..........-.. 2-22-2222. eee eee eee eee eee eee 58.3 33.3 22.1 
Four adult males from Antigua.......... eee ark ---| 60.1 32.6 21 
Four adult males from Guadeloupe estes -| 61.2 33.9 22.2 
One adult male from Grande Terre. ....- a deen re -| 61 33 22.5 
Two adult males from Dominica........ Serer 59.2 34.7 21.7 
Seven adult males from Martinique. eee 60.8 34.3 21.9 
Two adult males from Santa Lucia...... eee acter -| 60.2 34 23.7 
One adult male from St. Vincent..........---2-2- +... 22 eee eee ee cee eee eee 63 35.5 21.5 
Four adult males from Barbados.............2-2 0002 ee cece cece cence eee eee eee 62.7 34.1 21.5 
FEMALES. 
Two adult females from Culebra... 58.7 32.5 23.5 
One adult female from St. Johns. .......- Ase eal Bree -| 59.5 34 26 
One adult female from St. Christopher. ...........--.---2--02-0ecc ences eee ee eee 58.5 32.5 24 
Four adult females from Barbuda. ......-..-.--- 22-2. e eee eee eee ee eee eee ees 59.4 33 22.7 
Two adult females from Antigua un RY eee -| 59.2 33.7 23.7 
One adult female from Guadeloupe. ........-.-------- 20-225 -ee cece eee eee ee eee 58.5 33.5 26 
Three adult females from Dominica..........-..----- +2022 eee eee eee eee eee eee 61 34.5 23.8 
One adult female from Martinique. ......-. eitaie es -| 59.5 34.5 25.5 
One adult female from St. Vincent oe 
Ten adult females from Barbados. ............-.+---- 2 eee eee e ee eee ence eee 61.3 33.9 24.4 
