BIEDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMEKICA. 401 



hh. Without a conspicuous or sharply defined superciHary stripe of white or yel- 

 low. (Young.) 

 c. Throat pale dull grayish, or if tinged with yellow the back paler grayish 

 brown and wing more than 57. 

 (/. Back, etc., grayish brown or brownish gray; white wing-spot large, con- 

 spicuous; wing 57.1-61 or more. 

 e. Paler, with less yellow below (only on the breast). 



Coereba bahamensis, young (p. 401) 

 ee. Darker, with more yellow (mostly yellow) below. 



Coereba tricolor, young (p. 405) 

 (Id. Back, etc., light olive; white wing-spot obsolete; wing 53.8. 



Coereba chloropyga, young (extralimital). 

 cc. Throat yellow or yellow and dusky; wing not more than 55.9. 

 d. A distinct white spot at base of primaries. 

 e. Under parts mostly yellow. 

 /. Sides of throat mostly dusky; white wing-spot larger, the primaries 

 edged with white for some distance beyond it. 



Coereba flaveola, young (Addenda) 

 ff. Sides of throat with little if any dusky; white wing-spot smaller, nearly 



truncated Coereba portoricensis, young (p. 412) 



ee. Under parts light olive, tinged with yellow on breast. 



Coereba bananivora, young (p. 411) 

 dd. No distinct white spot at base of primaries. 



e. Side of throat dusky Coereba barbadensis, young (p. 420) 



ee. Whole throat yellowish Coereba mexicana, young (p. 410) 



(Kt. Plumage unicolored (plain blackish). 



//. Larger (wing of male 64, tail 42.7, exposed culmen 16, tarsus 19.6, middle toe 

 12.7). (Island of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles.) 



Coereba atrata, adults (p. 422) 

 hi). Smaller (male averaging 59.7, tail .36.3, exposed culmen 14.2, tarsus 18.8, 

 middle toe 11.9). (Island of Grenada, Lesser Antilles.) 



Coereba wellsi, adults (p. 423) 



CCEREBA BAHAMENSIS ( Reichenbach). 

 BAHAMA BANANAQUIT. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above plain .sooty l)laekish slate, the back, 

 scapulars, wings, and tail usually somewhat lighter than the pileum, 

 sometimes inclining to brownish gray; a large white spot or patch at 

 base of six to seven outermost primaries; remiges and rectrices more 

 or less distinctly edged with pale grayish, the tertials, in fresh plumage, 

 rather broadly margined at tips with the same or grayish white; 

 tail narrowly tipped with whitish (except in worn plumage), the three 

 outermost rectrices with a large terminal spot of white, about 11.4—14 

 in extent on lateral rectrix; rump lemon or canary yellow; a broad 

 white superciliary stripe, extending from nostril to occiput; loral and 

 auricular regions and sides of neck sooty blackish slate, like pileum, 

 the loral and auricular areas narrowly connected beneath eye; malar 

 region (except anterior point), chin, throat, and upper chest white, or 

 grayish white; lower chest, breast, and median portion of upper belly 

 lemon yellow; rest of under parts white, the flanks tinged with- yel- 

 lowish gray, the lower abdomen sometimes faintly tinged with yellow; 

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