On some species of Birds from Cuba, 441 



Rostrum nigrum. Pedes pallidi. Longitude corporis^ 3| ; rostri 

 I; ate a carpo ad remigem 3tiam^ 1|; caudce^ 1|; iarsi^^, 



17. Tanagra zena. 



Fringilla zena. Linn.^ I. p. 320. no, 13. 



Tanagra multicolor. VieilL, Gal. des Ois. p. 100. pi, 70. 



Orange Finch. Penn,^ Arct. Zool. II. no, 241. Laih,^ 

 Gen. Hist, VI. p. 138. wo. 128. 

 I have referred this bird to the Linnean genus Tanagra, not 

 having had an opportunity of investigating the characters of the 

 numerous genera lately formed in that extensive group. M. 

 Vieillot seems to make it the type of the restricted genus Tana- 

 gra ; but he has changed the specifick name, for what reason I 

 know not. It is equally difficult to assign a reason for the bird 

 having been placed among the Fringillce, 



18. Icterus Dominicensis. 



Oriolus Dominicensis. Linn., 1. p. 163. no. 14. 



St. Domingo Oriole. Lath., Gen. Hist.IIl.p. 122. no, 34. 



Carouge de St. Domingue. PL Enl. 5.f. 2. 

 There is a bird in the collection which approaches so nearly 

 to this last species in general shape, and in the disposition of the 

 markings, although it differs totally in the ground colour, that I 

 would almost venture to pronounce it to be the female or young 

 male of the species. Its colour is olive green, with a yellowish 

 tint in all those spots where the yellow prevails in the Icterus 

 Dominicensis, The forehead and throat are black, that colour 

 so far appearing to blend into the olive, as to indicate a change 

 into the total black of the above named species. The shape and 

 dimensions are the same, with the exception of those of the bill, 

 which is in a slight degree stronger and longer than that of let. 

 Dominicensis, Should the bird prove distinct, it may receive the 

 name of virescens, and the following specifick character. 



let. olivaceo-viridisy Jronte gulaque nigris, tectricibus alarum 

 superioribus et inferior thus, uropygio, abdoiuine imo femoriim' 

 que tectricibus Jlavescentibus, 



