420 BULLETIN 50, UNITKD STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CCEREBA BARBADENSIS (Baird). 

 BARBADOS BANANAftUIT. 



AdaJtx {.se.rcs alil-e). — Above dark sooty slate color, darkest on 

 pileiim, the l)ack more brownish shitc; lower rump \\^\\t yellowish- 

 olive or olive-yellowish; secondaries narrowly margined at ends with 

 pale orayish oi- dull grayish white; no white s[)otat base of primaries; 

 lateral rectrices bioadly tipped with white on both wel)s, the white 

 on outermost rectrix about 7.<)-8.!> in extent; a white or pale yellow 

 superciliary stripe, broadest anteriorly (on sides of forehead); sides of 

 head below this stripe, sides of neck, chin. up})er throat, and sides of 

 lower throat sooty blackish, like pileum; an indistinct rictal streak 

 of grayish; median portion of lower throat white or yellowish white; 

 rest of under })arts lemon or gaml)oge yellow, becoming paler and 

 duller posteriorly, the Hanks pale yellowish gray or olive, the lower 

 abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts white or yellowish white; 

 bill blackish with tumid rictus pale brow^iish (flesh color in life^); 

 legs and feet dusky (in dried skins); length (skins), 93-96 (94.2); wing, 

 55.6-.59.4 (57.7); tail, 36.6-40.4 (38.6); exposed culnien, 12.2-12.7 

 (12.4); tarsus, 17.8-18.3 (18); middle toe, 10.7-11.7 (11.2).' 



Y(>un<i. — Al)Ove plain grayish brown, including pileum and sides of 

 head and neck, the middle and greater wing-coverts indistinctly tipped 

 with paler; superciliary stripe narrow, mostly yellow; sid(\s of throat 

 dusky; rest of under parts, including median portion of throat, light 

 olive-yellow or dull canarv yellow, becoming paler posteriorly, the 

 flanks tinged with light brownish olive. 



Island of Barbados, Lesser Antilles. 



\_Cerlhiuln'] harhadensis Baird, Am. Nat., vii, Oct., 1873, 612 (Barliados, Lesser 



Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); in Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 428; iii, 



1874, 508.— CoKV, List Birds West Indies, 1885, i>. 

 Certhiohffjdrhadensix Baird, Rkewer, and Riimiway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 



508. — RiDc.wAY, Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, MO (synonymy). — Sclatkr, 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 46:— Curv, Auk, iii, 1886, 52; Birds West 



Lidies, 1889, 66. 

 Clnihwht'] barbadensis Ridgw ay, Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 28 (diagnosis). 

 Cicrcba barbadenms Cory, Auk, viii, Jan., 1801, 40; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1802, 17, 



116, 134. 

 C'larebal b(irb<idc)t,sis Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Oni., 18!»2, 78, 70, in text. 

 Certhiola iiuirl'mkana (not of Reichenbach) Sclater, Proe. Zool. Soc. Ix)nd., 



1874, 174 (Barbados). 



CCEREBA UROPYGIALIS Berlepsch. 

 CURASAO BANANAaXTIT. 



Similar to C h<rrh((den-six, but white throat-patch much larger, 

 extending to median portion of upper throat or sometimes even to 

 chin, and without yellowish tinge; superciliary stripe pure white, 

 longer (terminating beyond or behind auricular region), equally broad 



'Three specimens, with sex inidetermiiKMl. 



