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474 Range. — Lesser Antilles and adjacent small islands of the Greater Antilles (St. Thomas, Tórtola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, and St. Croix) ; also island of Tobago. (Monotypic.)

SERICOTES HOLOSERICEUS HOLOSERICEUS (Linnæus). GREEN CARIB. Adult male. — Above metallic-green or bronze-green (often suffused with bronze or coppery bronze), passing into bluish-green (sometimes 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 violaceous, 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).