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[Mutacilla'] bmumirora Ciyiiu.iy, 8yst. Nat. i, pt. ii, 1788, 951 (St. Domingo; based 



on Bananistf Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., v, 3H2; Banana Wa rl >l er I j^tham, Synop. 



Birds, ii, pt. ii, 498). 

 Certliiola hananirora Brva.vt, Proc. Bont. Soc. N. II.,xi, 1865, 95(Santo Domingo). — 



RuxiWAY, Pror. U. S. Nat. Miis., viii, 1885, 30 (synonymy). — Cory, Birds 



Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 41, pi. [21] fig. 1; List Birds W. I., 1885, 9; Auk, 



iii, 1886, 49; Birds W. I., 1889, 63.— Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 



40 (Samana, Santo Domingo). 

 {Certhiola'] hananivora Baird, Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 611 (monogr. ) ; in Baird, Brewer, 



and Ridgway's Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 427. 

 C[ert]ii(jki] hananivura Ridgavay, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 28 (diagnosis). 

 C«reba hananivora Cory, Auk, viii, Jan., 1891, 38; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 17, 116, 



131.— Cheerie, Contr. Orn. San Dom., 1896, 12. 

 Certhiola clusix Hartlaub, Naumannia, ii, Heft. 2, 1852, 56 {nomen nudum; 



ex Herz von Wurtemburg, manuscript). — Finsch, Verli. k. k. zool.-bot. 



Gesellsch. Wien, xxi, 1871, 771 (monogr.). 

 \^Certhiola\ clusix Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 17. 

 Certhiola ducix Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 151. 

 Certhia luteola var. B. Bechstein, Lath. Ueb., i, 1793, 602 (based on Bananiste 



Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., v, 332). 

 Certhiola ? Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 2.33 (Haiti). 



CCEREBA PORTORICENSIS (Bryant). 

 PORTO RICAN BANANAaUIT. 



Similar to C. hanaiihyrra,, but larger; upper part.s darker and less 

 brownish; throat clearer slate-gray; white tips to inner webs of lateral 

 rectrices much larger, and white wing-patch more truncated posteriorly. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above plain sooty blackish or very dark sooty 

 olive, the rump (abruptly) canary yellow, sometimes tinged with olive; 

 a white patch at base of four or live primaries next to the outermost; 

 inner webs of lateral rectrices broadly tipped with white, this 7.6-11.4 

 in extent on outermost rectrix (on which the white sometimes involves 

 the corresponding part of. outer web also); a conspicuous white super- 

 ciliary stripe, extending from near nostril to end of auricular region; 

 loral, suborbital, and auricular regions sooty blackish, like pileum, 

 etc.; malar region (except anterior point, which is blackish), chin and 

 throat uniform clear slate-gra}"; chest, breast, and upper abdomen 

 lemon yellow, fading into pale yellow on lower abdomen, the under 

 tail-coverts white, or yellowish white, with basal (concealed) portion 

 slate-gra}'; flanks yellowish gray, or light grayish olive tmged with 

 yellow; bill black, the basal portion of mandible sometimes brownish; 

 legs and feet dusky or grayish black (in dried skins). 



Young. — Above plain olive, the rimip paler and tinged with brownish 

 yellow; primaries and rectrices marked with white as in adults; super- 

 ciliary stripe indistinct, mixed 3'ellowish and light olive; malar region, 

 chin, and throat olive-yellowish indistinctly flecked with olive; rest of 

 under parts olive-yellow, brightest on chest, paler and more olivaceous 

 posteriorly, the luider tail-coverts pale yellowish with basal (concealed) 

 portion deep brownish gray. 



