BIRDS OK NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. G7 



13.2 (12.4); depth of bill at base, 7.-I-S.1 (T.<)); tarsus, 20.1-22.1 

 (20.6); middle toe, 13-15.2 (14. 5). ' 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult male, but black (»t" head 

 replaced by olive, more or less lilotehed or mixed with l)lai'k; white 

 head-stripes less distinct, less purely white; orange patch on foreneck 

 absent or slightly indicated, and yellow of breast, etc., paler; orange 

 nuchal collar narrower, more yellow; wings and tail much as in adult 

 female. 



Island of Porto Rico, Greater Antilles. 

 Tanagra portoricensis Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., x, 1866, 252 (Porto 



Rico). 

 [Sjyindalinl porturkensls Sclatek and Balvin, Noin. Av. Neotr., 1873, 21. — Cory, 



List Birds W. I., 1885, 11. 

 SpindaUsj)ortoricensisGviim,Acu, iiowvn. fiirOrn., 1874, 311; 1878, 159, 168; Anal. 

 Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 188.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 197 (synonymy; 

 descr.); Birds W. 1., 1889, 84 (do.); Cat. AV. I. Birds, 1892, 16, 114, 132.— 

 Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 167. 

 Tanagra [Spindalu) portoricensis Sundevall, Ofv. K. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., 

 1869, 596. 



SPINDALIS MULTICOLOR (Vieillot). 



HAITIAN SPINDALIS. 



Adult male. — Pileiun and sides of head black, i-elieved b}" a super- 

 ciliary stripe and lirotider malar stripe of white, the former extend- 

 ing to the nape; chin and up]^er throat also white; entire hindneck 

 and sides of neck rich yellow (indian yellow); back yellowish olive- 

 green, the scapulars similar hut darker and somewhat mixed -with 

 dusky anteriorly; whole rump orange-tawny, Ijecoming yellowish next 

 to olive-green of back, the upper tail-coverts rather deeper orange- 

 tawn}^ sometimes inclining to yellowish chestnut; lesser wing-coverts 

 chestnut; rest of wings black, the middle coverts narrowly margined 

 with olive-green, the greater coverts and tertials broadly edged with 

 white, the other secondaries and the primaries more narrowly edged 

 with white, the latter (except the outermost) wdiite at base of outer 

 web, forming a more or less extensive patch; tail black, the outermost 

 rectrix with al)out the terminal half of inner web white (except at tip), 

 the corresponding part of outer web also mostly white; next rectrix 

 with a similar but slightly shorter patch of white on inner welj; third 

 with a large terminal or subterminal spot of white; median line of 

 lower throat canary yellow, bordered along each side ])y a large patch 

 of black (narrow and pointed anteriorly, broad and rounded posteriorly), 

 extending posteriorly nuich be^^ond the yellow, or as far as the pos- 

 terior extremity of the white malar stripe; space between posterior 

 half of these black patches, extending considerably upon median por- 

 tion of chest, chestnut; sides of chest, whole breast, and upper alxlo- 

 men bright A^ellow (lemon or gamboge); lower abdomen, anal region, 



^ Seven specimens, 



