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478 Coloration. — Pileum, back, and under parts of body velvety black; upper tail-coverts bright metallic bluish green; tail dark metallic green or greenish black; wings (including remiges) bright metaUic bronze-green; chin, throat, and chest soft reddish purple. Sexes alike.

Range. — Lesser Antilles. (Monotypic.)

EULAMPIS JUGULARIS (Linnæus). PURPLE CARIB.

Adults (sexes alike). — Upper parts, except wings, upper tail-coverts, and tail, uniform velvety black; upper tail-coverts metallic bluish green or greenish blue; tail greenish black, glossed with metallic bluish green; wings bright metallic green, the wing-coverts and secondaries more yellowish or golden green, the primaries more bluish green, duller (nearly black on the two outermost); malar region, chin, throat, and chest uniform metallic reddish purple (maroon purple to nearly burnt carmine), this color encroaching on sides of neck; under tail-coverts bright metallic bluish green or greenish blue; rest of under parts velvety black; under surface of wings metallic green, brightest on coverts; bill black; iris dark brown; feet dusky.

Immature. — Essentially like adults, but reddish purple of throat, etc., narrower, restricted to a broad median stripe, the lateral portions (including malar region) black; black of upper parts glossed, more or less, with bluish green (in younger individuals intermixed, more or less, with brown feathers). Adult male. — Length (skins), 114-136 (124); wing, 67-78.5 (74.3); tail, 35-45 (39.9); culmen, 21-27.5 (22.8).

Adult female. — Length, (skins), 114-132 (124); wing, 65-78 (71.1); tail, 33.5-42.5 (38); culmen, 19-30 (25.2).