BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 411 



Certhiola columhiana Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., xiii, Nov., 1865 (pub. Jan., 1866), 

 412 (Bogota, Colombia; coll. Berlin Mus. ). — Sundevall, CEiv. k. Vet.-Ak. 

 Forh. Stockh., 1869, 622 (monogr.)— SALVADORiand Festa, Boll- Mus. Zool., 

 etc., Torino, xv, no. 357, 1899, 13 (Gualea, Forestedel Peripa, etc., w. Ecua- 

 dor; crit.). 



\_Certkiola'] columhiana Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 120, no. 1507. 



Certhiola mexicana cohirnhiana Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., xxxii, April, 1884, 

 276 ( Bucaramanga, Coloml)ia). 



[Certhiola mexicanal /3. columhiana Ridgwav, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, Apr. 20, 

 1885, 27, 29 (diagnosis; synonymy). 



C[oereha} mexicana columhiana Cory, Auk, viii, Jan., 1891, 41. 



CCEREBA BANANIVORA (Gmelin). 

 HAITIAN BANANAQtriT. 



Similar to C. mexicana^ but throat decided!}^ darker, rump clear yel- 

 low (abruptly defined anteriorly), white wing-spot much larger, and 

 bill much smaller. 



Adult {sexes alike). — Pileum dark sooty brown (clove brown or very 

 dark sepia); rest of upper parts (except rump) similar but more or 

 less distinctly paler; lower rump canary yellow, forming an abruptly 

 defined broad band or transverse patch; a white patch at base of four 

 or five primaries next to the outermost; inner webs of lateral rectrices 

 more or less broadly tipped with white (this sometimes 6.8 in extent 

 on outermost rectrix); a white superciliary stripe, extending from 

 nostril to end of auricidar region; loral, suborbital, and auricular 

 regions dark soot}' brown, like pileum; malar region, chin, and throat 

 uniform mouse gray or brownish slate-gray; chest, breast, and upper 

 abdomen lemon or gamboge yellow, changing on fianks into yellowish 

 olive-gray and on lower abdomen into pale 3'ellow, the under tail- 

 coverts white or 3'ellowish white, with basal (concealed) portions 

 brownish gray; bill blackish; legs and feet (in dried skins) dusky horn 

 color. 



Young. — Above plain brownish olive, including pileum and rump, 

 the latter scarcel}^, if at all, tinged with yellow; superciliary stripe 

 narrow and indistinct, pale dirty yellowish instead of white; under 

 parts, including throat, pale dull yellowish, more or less tinged with 

 olive, especially on chest, sides, and flanks, deepest on the first; breast 

 and abdomen more or less tinged or mixed with brighter yellow. 



Adult wale. — Length (skin), 95.5; wing, 57.3; tail, 30.3; exposed 

 culmen, 12.2; tarsus, 10.5; middle toe, 10.2.' 



Adult female.— I m\^ih (skins), 92.7-96.5 (94.7); wing, 53.6-56.1 

 (55.1); tail, 31.5-35.6 (33.5); exposed culmen, 11.9; tarsus, 15.2-16.8 

 (16); middle toe, 10.2-11.2 (10.7).' 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. 



^ One specimen. '■' Two specimens. 



