362 CAMPS IN THE CARIB.BEES. 



16. Certhiola saccharina. " Molasses Bird." 



Female. Crown, occiput, lores, and sides of the head glossy 

 black ; back of a dull grayish or smoky black ; rump dull greenish- 

 yellow ; a very conspicuous white superciliary stripe runs from the 

 bill to the hind neck ; tail black, the first two lateral feathers have a 

 small patch of dull white on their inner webs at the end, the third 

 feather has the end narrowly white ; wings black, with a white patch 

 at the base of the primaries ; these have their outer webs narrowly 

 margined with white ; edge of wing light yellow ; under wing-coverts 

 white ; throat dark plumbeous, breast and upper part of abdomen, 

 clear light yellow, the sides and lower part of the abdomen are light 

 ashy-olive, under tail-coverts yellowish-white ; bill and feet black. 



Length (fresh), \\ in. ; wings, 2\ ; tail, 1 ^ ; tarsus, f. Two speci- 

 mens are in the collection ; one, marked ^, has the plumage greatly 

 soiled ; the other is marked as a 9 with a ? ; this I have taken for 

 the type, the plumage being in a much better condition. 



The male measures, length, 4| in. ; wing, 2\ ; tail, If ; tarsus, f. 



Types in National Museum, Washington. 



Remarks. This, in appearance, comes nearest to C. Portoricen- 

 si's, but differs in the superciliary stripe being wider and extending 

 farther back, in the throat being many shades darker in color, in 

 having the flanks of a darker olive, and the yellow on the rump 

 darker and duller. The color of the breast and rump in C. Portori- 

 censis is of a deeper yellow. 



17. Leucofcza Bishofti. 



Male. The general plumage is smoky-black, rather darker on the 

 head ; the sides are blackish cinereous ; a circle of pure white sur- 

 rounds the eye ; a large roundish spot on the middle of the throat, 

 the upper part of the breast, and the middle of the abdomen, are 

 dull white, somewhat mixed with blackish on the throat and with 

 cinereous on the abdomen ; a very small spot on the chin, and the 

 tips of the feathers on the upper part of the throat, are dull white ; 

 the black on the upper part of the breast has the appearance of a 

 broad band, separating the white of the throat from that of the lower 

 part of the breast ; the under tail-coverts are cinereous-black at base, 

 ending largely with dull white ; wings and tail black, the outer two 

 tail-feathers have a small white spot, triangular in shape, on their 

 inner webs at the end ; bill black ; tarsi and toes very pale yel- 

 lowish-brown, perhaps much lighter colored in the living bird, nails 

 also pale. 



