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Genus PYRRHUPHONIA Bonaparte. 



Pyrrhnphonia Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxi, 1850, 423; Rev. Zool., iii, 1S51, 

 137. (Type, FrbujUht jamaka Linmtus. ) 



Similar to Euphontd ])ut bill much stouter, its depth at base equal 

 to its width at rictus and greater than distance from nostril to tip of 

 maxilla; g'onys very strongl}^ ascending terminally, its basal angle 

 very prominent; maxillary tomium with subterminal notch indistinct^ 

 and without smaller notches or serrations posterior to the notch. 



Coloration.— X^niiovm, slightly metallic, greenish gray above, paler 

 gray beneath, becoming yellowish on abdomen. 



^aw^t'.— Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. (Monotypic.) 



PYRRHUPHONIA JAMAICA (Linnaeus). 

 JAMAICAN ETJPHONIA. 



AduUmale,— Above, uniform greenish plumbeous, with a strong gloss 

 of metallic bluish green; remiges dusky, with greenish plumbeous edg- 

 ings, broadest on tertials; beneath nuich paler gray, without greenish 

 tinge or metallic gloss; abdomen light yellow (canary yellow or pale 

 lemon yellow); anal region and under tail-coverts pale cream-buff, the 

 latter with central or median portion duller, sometimes pale gray; 

 axillars pale yellow (primrose or pale sulphur); under wing-coverts 

 white; maxilla black with portion below nostril bluish gray (grayish 

 blue in life?); mandible bluish gray for ba^al half or more, blackish 

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

 101.6-114.3 (105.9); wing, 66-66.5 (66.3); tail, 39.-l-l:0.1 (39.6); 

 exposed culmen, 8.9-9.7 (9.1); tarsus, 17.5-17.8 (17.7); middle toe, 



10.9-12.7 (12.2).^ 



Adult female.— Fileum and hindneck greenish gray, with a slight 

 metallic gloss; rest of upper parts plain olive-green, slightly more 

 yellowish posteriorly; under parts pale gray, paler andduller medially; 

 abdomen Inift'y whitish; otherwise like the male; length (skins), 101.6- 

 113 (107.2); wing, 61.8-66 (65.3); tail, 38.6; exposed culmen, 8.9-9.4 

 (9.1); depth of bill at base, 7.1; tarsus, 17.8; middle toe, 12.2-12.7 

 (12.1).^ 



Island of Jamacia, Greater Antilles. 

 [Fringilla] Jamaica Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 323 (Jamaica; based on 

 Grey Grosbeak Brown, Illustr., 62, pi. 26) .— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 

 1788, 920.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 443. 

 Eujyhonia Jamaica GoH»E, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 238; Illustr. Birds Jam., 1849, pi. 

 59._SCLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 73; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 60.— 

 Albrecht, Jonrn. fiir Orn., 1862, 196.— March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1863, 296.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 194 (synonymy and descr.); Birds W. I., 

 1889, 81.— Scott, Auk, x, 1893, 180. 



iThe notch is by no means wanting, as stated on page 53 of the Catalogue of the 

 Birds in the British Museum, vol. xi. 

 =• Three specimens. ' Two specimens. 



