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).[1]
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Thirty-three specimens.
Locality. Wing. Tail. Exposed
culmen.males. One adult male from St. Thomas 60.5 34 21.5 Two adult males from St. Johns 60.7 32.5 22.2 One adult male from St. Eustatius 59.5 33.5 One adult male from St. Cliristopher 59 34.5 20.5 One adult male from Nevis 61.5 35 21 Six adult males from Barbuda 58.3 33.3 22.1 Four adult males from Antigua 60.1 32.6 21 Four adult males from Guadeloupe 61.2 33.9 22.2 One adult male from Grande Terre 61 33 22.5 Two adult males from Dominica 59.2 34.7 21.7 Seven adult males from Martinique 60.8 34.3 21.9 Two adult males from Santa Lucia 60.2 34 23.7 One adult male from St. Vincent 63 35.5 21.5 Four adult males from Barbados 62.7 34.1 21.5 females. Two adult females from Culebra 58.7 32.5 23.5 One adult female from St. Johns 59.5 34 26 One adult female from St. Christopher 58.5 32.5 24 Four adult females from Barbuda 59.4 33 22.7 Two adult females from Antigua 59.2 33.7 23.7 One adult female from Guadeloupe 58.5 33.5 26 Three adult females from Dominica 61 34.5 23.8 One adult female from Martinique 59.5 34.5 25.5 One adult female from St. Vincent 59.5 33.5 24.1 Ten adult females from Barbados 61.3 33.9 24.4
