BIKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 619 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. 



Sylvicola pharetra Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 163; lUustr. Birds Jam., 1849 



pi. 38. — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 309. — Osburn, Zoologist, xvii, 1859, 



6660, in text (habits). 

 M{motiliii] pharctra Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 

 [Miuotilta'] pharctra Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 241, no. 3487. 

 Dendrwca pharetra Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 71; Cat. Am. Birds, 



1862, 358.— Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 193.— Coues, Birds Col. Val., 



1878, 296 (synonymy).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 3.32, 651. 

 IDendrceca} pharctra Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 9. — Coues, 



Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 297, in text.— Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 8. 

 D[endrceca'] pharctra 'NEWTOfi (A. and E. ), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 106. 

 Dcndrocca pliarctra Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. Fijrh. Stockh., xxvi, 1870, 617 



(monogr. ). 

 Dendroica pharetra Baird^ Review Am. Birds, 1865, 192. — Cory, Aiik, iii, 1886, 



35; Birds W. I., 1889 49, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 18, 118, 130 (.Jamaica). 

 D[endroica'] pharetra Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 



1874, 220. 



Genus CATHAROPEZA Sclater. 



Catharopeza^ Sclater, Ibis, 4th ser., iv, Jan., 1880, 40, footnote; 74, in text. 

 (Type, Lcucopeza hishopi Lawrence.) 



Rather large terrestrial or semiterrestrial Mniotiltidte with the outer- 

 most (ninth) primary shorter than lifth; tail much less than two and a 

 half times as long- as tarsus; color plain sooty blackish,' with white 

 patch on lower throat, another on breast, and under tail-coverts white. 



Bill much shorter than head, shaped much as in Oporornw and spe- 

 cies of Dendroica. Rietal ])ristles distinct. V/ing moderate, rather 

 pointed (eighth, seventh, and sixth primaries longest, ninth slightly 

 shorter than fifth); wing-tip about as long as commissure. Tail about 

 equal to distance from bend of wing to tips of secondaries, rounded, 

 the rectrices narrow and with subacuminate tips. Tarsus nearh^ half as 

 long as tail, its scutella indistinct (almost fused on outer side); middle 

 toe with claw much shorter than tarsus; basal phalanx of middle toe 

 united for decidedly more than half its length to outer toe, separated 

 for most of its length from inner toe. 



CoJoration. — Sooty blackish, or olive, with orbital ring, lower throat, 

 patch on breast, under tail-coverts, and small spot at tip of inner web 

 of lateral rectrices, white; sexes essentially alike. 



Nidification. — ^Unknown. 



Range. — Island of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles. (Monotypic.) 



This genus is veiy di\iiW\\Q,ilxom.Leucop€za^ the form of the bill, feet, 

 wings, and tail being conspicuously different. It is nearl}" related to 

 Dendroica^ from which it differs chiefly in the relativeh^ shorter tail, and 

 perhaps should not be separated from that genus. 



1 "K-a6a/36j, clarus, et itEZ,a, pes." 

 - Olive, instead of blackish, in young. 



