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chin, and throat uniform dark viohiceous steel blue, or black glossed 

 with that color; rest of under parts bright j^ellowish ochraceous, more 

 3^ellowish on breast and chest, where becoming deeper, more tawn}^ 

 next to l)lack of foreneck, and gradually l)ecoming deeper posteriorly, 

 the under tail-coverts orange-tawny; thighs light olive-yellow, the 

 feathers dusky beneath the surface; bill black, the mandible brownish 

 basally ; legs and feet dusky horn color (in dried skins); length (skins), 

 105.4^108 (106.7); wing, 63; tail, 35.8-37.6 (36.6); exposed culmen, 

 6.1-6.6; depth of bill at base, 4.1-4.8 (4.3); tarsus, 14.7-15; middle 

 toe, 10.2-10.9 (10.4).^ 



Adult female. — Pileum as in adult male, but black bar between yel- 

 lowish of forehead and blue of crown narrower; back, scapulars, 

 lesser, middle, and greater wing-coverts, plain olive-green, slightly 

 glossed with metallic bluish green; rump and upper tail-coverts simi- 

 lar, but more yellowish olive-green; secondaries and rectrices dusky 

 with olive-green edgings; primaries dusky, narrowly edged with pale 

 glaucous or w^hitish, passing into olive-green basally; auricular and 

 suborbital regions dusky olive-green, slightly tinged with blue, the 

 malar region lighter and more bluish; chin and throat canary yellow; 

 rest of under parts deep olive-yellow or light yellowish olive-green ; 

 bill and feet as in adult male; length (skin), 106.7; wing, 61.7; tail, 

 36.1; exposed culmen, 6.1; depth of bill at base, 4.6; tarsus, 15; mid- 

 dle toe, 10.4. 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. 



[^Pipra] musica Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 1004 (based on L' Onjaniste, de St. Do- 

 mingue Buffon, PI. Enl., pi. 809, fig. 1). 



Tanagra musica Vilillot, Enc. Meth., ii, 1823, 783. — Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., xi, 1866, 92 (Santo Domingo). 



E[^uphoiua] musica Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1846, 367. 



[Euphonia'] musica Sclater and Salvin, Nona. Av. Neotr., 1873, 17. — Cory, List 

 Birds W. I., 1885, 11. 



[Euphona'] musica Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 232. 



Euphonia musica Sclater, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1851, 82 (St. Domingo; "Cay- 

 enne?"); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 271 (monogr.; St. Domingo; "Cuba"); 

 Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 97; Cat. Birds Brit. Mua., xi, 1886, 59 (Samana, 

 Santo Domingo). — Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 231 ^Santo Domingo; 

 Haiti) .—Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 152 (Haiti; descr. young 

 male); Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 61, pi. (10); Auk., iii, 1886, 192 

 (synonymy, descr., etc.); Birds W. I., 1889, 79; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 16, 

 113, 131.— Tristram, Ibis, 1884, 168 (Santo Domingo).— Cherrie, Contr. 

 Orn. San Dom., 1896, 13 (Honduras and Maniel, Santo Domingo). 



Euphone musica Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 42 (Cuba; error; see 

 Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1855, 476; 1861, 409). 



Euphoria musica Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1855, 476. 



E[uphonia'] cxriileocephala Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 286, part (quotes PI. 

 Enl. 809, fig. 1). 



^ Two specimens. 



