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Coloration. — Above plain olive-green; top and sides of head black, 

 or gTay with white supraloral, supraauricular, and suborbital marks; 

 beneath bluish gray and white. Sexes alike. 



Range. — Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. (Two species.) 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF PHvENICOPHILUS. 



a. Crown and occiput black; whole throat and median ])ortion of chest, breast, and 

 abdomen white. (Haiti. ) Phaenicophilus palmarum, adults (p. 127) 



aa. Crown and occiiiut gray, like hindneck; median i^ortion of throat gray; whole of 



chest, breast, and abdomen, as well as sides and flanks, gray. (Haiti. ) 



Phaenicophilus poliocephalus, adults, (p. 128) 



PH.ffiNICOPHILUS PALMARUM (Linnaeus). 

 PALM TANAGER. 



Adult {sexes alike). — Pileum and sides of head black, sharply defined 

 below and posteriorly, relieved b}^ a large Avhite spot on each side of 

 forehead, a white spot on lower e3^elid, and a broad white supraauricular 

 streak (beginning near of middle upper eyelid); malar region, chin, 

 whole throat, and median portion of chest, breast, and al)domen white; 

 hindneck and sides of neck slate-gray, passing into lighter gray (no. 7 

 or cinereous) on sides of breast, sides, and flanks; rest of upper parts 

 plain yellowish olive-green; edge of wing light yellow; maxilla black; 

 mandible grayish or horn color (in dried skins), becoming black at tip; 

 iris dark brown; legs and feet horn color or dusky (in dried skins). 



Adult maZd.— Length (skins), 157.5-160 (158.8); wing, 82.8-87.6 

 (85.1); tail, 66..5-71.1 (68.8); exposed culmen, 17.3-18.3 (17.8); depth 

 of bill at base (one specimen), 7.6; tarsus, 23.1-2-1.6 (23.9); middle 

 toe, 15-16 (15. 5). 1 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 166.4; wing, 83.1; tail, 71.1; exposed 

 culmen, 16; depth of bill at base, 6.4; tarsus, 23.4; middle toe, 16.^ 



Young. — ""Similar to the adults, except that the black of the head 

 is replaced b}^ dusky grayish or slate color, and the entire head, neck, 

 and breast are washed with olive yellowish." (Cherrie.) 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. 



\Timlui(\ palmarum Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 295 (based on Le Pal- 

 miste Brisson, Orn., ii, .301, and Lc Palmistc a, tt-tenoir Brisson, Orn., ii, 303). — 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1788, 824.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 356. 



Tachyphonus palmarum Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxii, 1819, 359; 

 Enc. Meth., ii, 1823, 803. 



Ar[remon'\ palmarum Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1849, App., p. 16. 



Arremon palmarum Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1866, 92. 



Phaenicophilus palmarum Strickland, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1851, 104. 



Phcenicophilus palmarum Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 84 (monogr. ); 

 1857, 232; Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 22; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 92; Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 234.— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 198.— 

 Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 152 (Haiti; habits, etc.); Birds Haiti 



^ Two specimens. '^ One specimen. 



