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wholly black; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 70-79 
(75); wing, 41.5-45 (43.1); tail, 23.5-26 (24.4), middle rectrices, 
17-22.5 (19); culmen, 14.5-16 (15.4).@ 
Adult female.—Above rather dull metallic green or bronze-green, 
the upper tail-coverts and middle pair of rectrices more bluish green; 
tail (except middle pair of rectrices) glossy blue-black or black glossed 
with greenish blue (this more greenish toward middle pair), two outer 
rectrices tipped (second very narrowly) with pale brownish gray or 
dull grayish white; remiges brownish slate, faintly glossed with pur- 
plish; under parts pale brownish gray, fading into white on abdomen; 
femoral tufts white; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 
72-77 (75); wing, 41.5-45.5 (43.5); tail, 22.5-24 (23.2), middle rec- 
trices, 21; culmen, 16.5-17 (16.7).® 
Immature male.—Similar to the adult female, but tail wholly glossy 
blue-black (as in adult male) and pale gray of under parts intermixed 
with metallic green. 
Islands of Curagao, Aruba, Bonaire, Margarita, and Trinidad, and 
adjacent coast district of Venezuela (La Guayra). 
Chiorostilbon atala (not Ornismya atala Lesson) Goutp, Mon. Troch., pt. xx, 
Sept., 1860; vol. v, 1861, pl. 356; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 177 (crit.).— 
Exuiot, Ibis, 1875, 159 (synon.; crit.; Trinid4d; Curacao); Classif. and 
Synop. Troch., 1879, 246 (Trinid4d).—Satvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 
1892, 55 (excl. syn. part)—Cuapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., vi, 1894, 58 
(Trinid4d).—Boucarp, Gen. Hum.-Birds, 1894, 124 (monogr.). 
H{ylocharis] atala Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec., 1848, 115. 
(?) [Saucerottia] atala Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 77 (Brazil). 
[Chlorestes] atala REIcHENBACH, Troch. Enum., 1855, 4, pl. 700, fig. 4568. 
Chrysomirus atala MuLsantT and VerREAux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 3, 
1878, 199. 
Prasitis atala Boucarp, The Hum. Bird, ii, 1892, 79 (Valencia, Colombia). 
Chlorostilbon caribeus LawReNcE, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., x, 1874 (pub. 
March, 1871!), 13, 14 (Island of Curacao, Dutch West Indies; coll. G. N. 
Lawrence).—Berierscu, Journ. fiir Orn., 1892, 87 (Curacao; crit.).— 
Peters, Journ. fiir Orn., 1892, 119 (Curacao).—Harrert, Ibis, 1893, 299 
(Aruba; crit.), 319 (Curagao; crit.; habits; descr. nest and eggs), 328 
(Bonaire); Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 301 (islands of Aruba, Curacao, and 
Bonaire).—Cory, Pub. 137, Field Mus. N. H., 1909, 200 (Aruba), 206 (Cura~ 
¢ao), 212 (Bonaire), 245 (Margarita). 
C[hlorostilbon] caribaeus Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 76 (monogr.). 
« Sixteen specimens. b Two specimens, from Margarita Island. 
; 1 Middle] Ex- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | rec- | posed 
trices. jculmen. 
MALES. 
Three adult males from coast of Venezuela (LaGuayra) ..-..........-.. 43.8 25.3 18.7 15.5 
Five adult males from Margarita Island..............2.-2--22 eee ee scene 42.4 23.8 18 15.2 
Six adult males from Curacgao.....-...---...20 22-2 eee cece ee eee ee eee e ees 43.2 24.6 20.9 15.6 
Two adult males from Trinidéd. ....6. 2.00 00s0s-ccsecsseasesseseeessoene 43.5 24,2 17.5 15 
