[49] A series of twenty-nine specimens of _Q. purpureus_ from Florida, has been kindly furnished for examination by Mr. C. J. Maynard, chiefly from the northern and middle portions of the State, and consequently intermediate between the varieties _aglæus_ and _purpureus_. In color, however, they are nearly all essentially, most of them typically, like the former; but in size and proportions they scarcely differ from more northern specimens of the latter. Their common and nearly constant features of coloration are, uniform soft dark greenish body, with blue tinge on belly, and bluish-green tail-coverts and tail, violet head, more blue anteriorly and more bronzy on the foreneck, and with this color abruptly defined posteriorly against the peculiar uniform blackish dull green of the body; the wing-coverts usually tipped with vivid violet and green spots. One male is a typical example of the var. _purpureus_, distinguished by the blending of the similar metallic tints on the body and head, the broken tints on the body arranged in transverse bars on the back, more purple tail-coverts, and lack of the vivid metallic tips to the wing-coverts. There are also four nearly typical specimens of the var. _aglæus_, these probably from farther south on the peninsula, but with the characteristics of the race less exaggerated than in the types from the keys. The measurements of this series are as follows:— Var. _purpureus_ (one specimen). ♂. Wing, 5.30; tail, 4.65; culmen, 1.38. Intermediate specimens. Typical _aglæus_ in colors, but like _purpureus_ in size. (16 males, and 17 females). ♂. Wing, 4.85 to 5.50; tail, 4.60 to 5.50; culmen, 1.25 to 1.50. ♀. Wing, 4.65 to 4.90; tail, 3.80 to 4.50; culmen, 1.10 to 1.30. Var. _aglæus_ (four specimens). ♂. Wing, 5.30 to 5.60; tail, 5.00 to 5.30; culmen, 1.38 to 1.40. Quiscalus major, VIEILL. BOAT-TAILED GRAKLE; JACKDAW. _Gracula barita_, WILSON, Index Am. Orn. VI, 1812 (not of LINNÆUS). _Gracula quiscala_, ORD. J. A. N. Sc. I, 1818, 253 (not of LINNÆUS). _Quiscalus major_, VIEILLOT, Nouv. Dict. XXVIII, 1819, 487.—BON. Am. Orn. I, 1825, 35, pl. iv.—IB. List, 1838.—IB. Consp. 1850, 424.—AUD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 504; V, 1838, 480, pl. clxxxvii, IB. Syn. 1839, 146.—IB. Birds Am. IV, 1842, 52, pl. ccxx.—BAIRD, Birds N. Am. 1858, 555.—CASSIN, Pr. A. N. S. 1867, 409.—ALLEN, B. E. Fla. 295.—COUES, Ibis, N. S. IV, No. 23, 1870, 367 (Biography). _Chalcophanes major_, “TEMM.” CAB. Mus. Hein. 1851, 196.