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Clark — Description of a New Euphonia. 



more yellowish, especiall}' on the abdomen and under tail coverts. The 

 rump is also considerably brighter, inclining to wax yellow, and not dull 

 olive, as in the Dominica bird. 



Color. — Adult male: Forehead gamboge yellow, margined posteriorly by 

 a transverse line or bar of black ; crown, occiput, and hind neck uniform 

 light turquoise blue, this color extending down behind the auriculars 

 to the upper breast; back, scapulars, wing coverts, and upper tail coverts 

 uniform olive green; rump bright olive yellowish ; primaries, secondaries 

 and rectrices dusky, margined with olive green ; lores black ; suborbital, 

 auricular and malar regions dark olive green, becoming lighter toward 

 throat ; chin and throat lemon yellow, brightest on chin, and shading into 

 the green of the breast posteriorly ; under])arts yellowish olive green, be- 

 coming more yellowish on abdomen and under tail coverts; under wing 

 coverts yellowish white ; bill black, with basal portion of mandible grayish. 

 Iris brown. Feet brownish gray. 



Adult female : Similar, but paler and duller throughout ; forehead lemon 

 yellow, bordered i)Osteriorly with a line of dark olive green; chin and 

 throat paler and slightly greenish ; sides of head yellowish olive green ; 

 crown and occiput slightly paler than in the male. 



One specimen, apparently immature, has the blue of the head mixed 

 with olive green. A male from ]\hvrtinique and another from St. Lucia 

 agree in color with the St. Vincent birds. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



Sex. 



Male 



Female 



Locality. 



St. Bartholomew.* 

 Guadeloupe (average of three).* 

 Laudat, Dominica. 

 Martinique. 



St. Lucia (average of two).* 

 St. Vincent.* 

 Kingstown, St. Vincent. 



Grenada (average of two).* 



Guadeloupe (average of two).* 



Dominica (average of four).* 



Laudat, Dominica. 



Martinique.* 



St. Lucia (average of two).* 



Kingstown, St. Vincent. 



Tarsus. 



15.5 



16.3 



16 



14 



16 



16.5 



16 



16 



16 



16 



16 



16 



16 



16 



16.3 



16.5 



16.8 



17 



17 



16.5 



16 



16 



16 



* Taken from Kidgway, Birds North and Middle Am., II, p. 16, 1902. 



