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remiges mostly cinnamon; bill, legs, and feet as in adult male; 

 length (skins), 182-197 (188); wing, 97-106 (101.7); tail, 73-77.5 

 (74.2); exposed culmen, 16.5-18 (17.5); tarsus, 23-25 (24.2); middle 

 toe, 15-16 (15.4).« 



Young male. — Similar to the adult female, but pileum darker, the 

 feathers more or less extensively tipped with glossy black. 



Island of Jamaica (Spanishtown ; Moneague; St. Georges; Hope), 

 Greater Antilles. 



[Lanius] niger Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 301 (Jamaica; based on Black Shrike 

 Latham, Synoji. Birds, i, pt. i, 187, no. 38).— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 73. 



Pachyrhamphus niger Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. liond., 1857, 72. 



T[ihjra] nigra Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1849, App., p. 11. 



[Tityra] niger Gray, Hand-list i, 1869, 368, no. 5595. 



H[adrostomus] niger Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, Oct., 1859, 85. 



Hadrostomvs niger Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 239; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xiv, 1888, 334 (Spanishtown, Jamaica). — March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1863, 290.— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 323.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 

 337; Birds West Ind., 1889, 132.— Scott, Auk, x, 1893, 177 (Jamaica, above 

 3,000 ft.). 



[Hadrostomus] niger Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 56. 



riatijpsaris nigra Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 77. — Albrecht, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1862, 199. 



Platypsaris niger Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, 107, 130. 



[Platypsaris] niger Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 163. 



Pachyrhynchus aterrimus Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., 1846, 320. 



Tityra leuconota Gray and Mitchell, Gen. Birds, i, 1846, 36, pi. 63. 



Tityra Icuconotus Gosse, Birds, Jamaica, 1847, 187. 



P[ackyrhamphus] nigrescens Cabanls, Wiegmann's Archiv. fiir Naturg., 1847, pt. i, 

 241. 



Pachyrhamphus ni(/rcsce7is Bo's AVAUTT^. Consp. Av., i, 1850, 180 ("Colombia"). 



PLATYPSARIS AGLAIiE AGLAI/E i Lafresnaye). 

 ROSE-THROATED BECARD. 



Adult male. — Pileum and nape uniform black, passing anteriorly 

 into slate-black, sooty slate, or gray on forehead; back, scapulars, 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, and wing-coverts uniform slate color or 

 slate-gray in distinct and abrupt contrast w^ith black of pileum, the 

 larger wing-coverts indistinctly margined or edged with paler; rectrices 

 dark slate color, edged with lighter slate or slate-gray; remiges dull 

 slate color or dark brownish gray with paler slate-gray edgings, 

 most distinct on secondaries; lores grayish, becoming dusky next to 

 eyej auricular region slate color or sooty slate, passing into paler 

 and grayer slate or slate-gray (sometimes pale brownish) on sub- 

 orbital and malar regions; chin and extreme upper part of throat 

 pale gray to grayish white; rest of throat geranium pink to lake red, 



a Four specimens. 



