VOL. XVIII, pp. 19-22 FEBRUARY 2, 1905 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW EUPHONIA FROM THE 

 SOUTHERN WEST INDIES. 



BY AUSTIN H. CLARK. 



On examining a series of ten specimens of Euphonia flavifrons 

 (Sparrm.) obtained by myself on the island of St. Vincent, and 

 comparing them with specimens from Dominica, I find certain 

 constant differences in color, which, taken in connection with 

 the uniformly small size, seem to warrant a subspecific sepa 

 ration . 



Unfortunately in the original description of the species 

 (Sparrman, Mus. Carls. IV, No. 92, 1789) no type locality is 

 given ; bat as it appears to be more probable that the earlier 

 specimens came from the large and important northern islands 

 (Guadeloupe, Dominica, and Martinique) rather than from the 

 small and less known islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, I 

 have decided to give a new name to the southern form, thus re 

 stricting E. f '.flavifrons to the St. Bartholomew-Dominica group. 

 The southern bird may therefore be known as 



Euphonia flavifrons viscivora * subsp. nov. 



Type from Kingstown, St. Vincent, W. I. No. 12,687, adult male, coll. E. A. 

 and O. Bangs. October 29, 1903. Austin H. Clark, collector. 



Characters. Resembles E. f. flavifrons from Dominica, but is smaller, 

 darker, and generally brighter, with the black on sides of the head replaced 

 by dark green, the throat and forehead deeper and more orange in color, 

 the back clearer green, and not tinged with bluish, and the underparts 



*Viscum, mistletoe. This bird feeds largely on the berries of a plant called locally 

 "mistletoe," and is therefore known on St. Vincent as the " Mistletoe Bird." 



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