r>8 BULLETIN 50, TTNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



and under tiul-cDVcrts white, the last with eoneealed ba.sal portion of 

 the feathers abruptly Ji"i'ay; tlaid-cs liyht grayish olive, indistinctly 

 streaked with darker; maxilla bhick; mandible paler (bluish gray in 

 life?); legs and feet dusk}^ (bluish gviiy in life?); length (skins), 157.5; 

 wing, 83. 1-86.4 (84.6); tail, 69.9-71.9 (70.9); exposed cuhnen, 10.7-11.2 

 (10.9); depth of bill at base (one specimen), 5.8; tarsus, 20,8-21.1; mid- 

 dle toe, 13.7.^ 



Adult female. — '"Olive on the })ack and yellowish on the rump; 

 under parts grayish, whitening at the vent" (Cory). ""Above olive; 

 back slightly striated; wings and tail blackish ])rown, edged with olive; 

 outer margins of wing-coverts whitish; beneath grayish white, clearer 

 on the belly, with blackish shaft-stripes on the breast" (Sclater). 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. 



T\<intKjr<i\ multicolor yiEii.un', Enc. Metli., ii, lS2o, 775 ( "Floridew, les iles Baha- 

 ma et (le Saint-Domingue " ) . 



Tanagr a nmUicolor YiEihi^OT, Gal. Oiy., i, 1834, 1(X">, i>\. 76. 



ISpindalls'l inuliicolor Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 240. — Sclatkk and Salvin, 

 Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 21.— Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 11. 



Spindalis inultkolor Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 230 (inonogr. ); Synop. 

 Av. Tanagr., 1856, 57; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 167.— Salle, Prof. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 231.— Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. C'lnl), vi, 1881, 152 

 (Haiti); Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 54, pi. (7); Auk, iii, 1886, 196 

 (synonymy; descr.); Birds W. I., 1889, 83 (do.); Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 16, 

 114, 131. — Cherrie, Contr. Orn. San Dom., 1896, 13 (Catare and Aguacate, 

 Santo Domingo ; crit. ) . 



Tanagra duin'micensis Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1866, 92 (St. Domingo; 

 crit.). 



SPINDALIS PRETREI (Lesson). 



CUBAN SPINDALIS. 



Similar to A', //n/lficolo/'^ but l»ill still more slender; adult male with 

 nuchal collar rufous-orange (instead of yellow), lower rump rufous- 

 orange (instead of deep orange-tawny), chest tawny-orange instead of 

 chestnut, middle wing-coverts more broadly tipped with olive-green, 

 greater coverts more broadly edged with white, and black stripe on 

 sides of throat nmch narrower. 



Adult iiiide. — Pileiun and sides of head black, relieved by a white 

 superiiliary stripe (extending to nape) and a still broader white malar 

 stripe; chin white (confluent laterally with white malar stripes); median 

 portion of throat clear rich yellow (canary or Indian yellow), mar- 

 gined on each side by a black stripe (narrow and pointed anteriorly', 

 broader and roundtnl or subtruncate posteriorly); whole chest, lower 

 foreneck (between posterior i)ortion of lateral black throat-stripes), 

 sides of neck and band or collar across hindiieck orange-tawny or deep 

 tawny-orange, that on the chest fading posteriorly into clear lemon 

 3^ellow on median portion of breast and upper abdomen; sides and 

 flanks pale olive-grayish; lower abdomen, anal region, and under tail- 



^ Two speciuiens. 



