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Veiiezviela and Trinidad; CuV)a (introduced 0^ Porto Rico (intro- 

 duced T). 



Carduelis cucuUata Swainson, Zool. Illustr., i, 1820-21, pi. 7. 



F. [I'higiUa^ cucullata Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 371. 



IFringilla'] cucullata Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 82, no. 7199. 



iPijrrhomitris'] cucullata Boxaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 517 (Cumana, Venezuela; 

 Antilles). 



Fiirrliomitris cucullata Guxdlach, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1876, 397; Orn. 

 Cuba, 1876, 21; Journ. fur Orn., 1878, 160 (Porto Eico) ; Anal. See. Esp. Hist. 

 Nat.,vii, 1878, 207 (Porto Eico).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 207 (synonymy and 

 description); Birds W.I., 1889, 94 (do.); Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 111 (Porto 

 Rico; Cuba; introduced). 



Pyrrhomitris cucullatm Lawrence, Ann. Lye. X. Y., vii, 1860, 269 (Cuba; crit.) . 



dirysornitris cucullata Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 123 (Trinidad).— Cassin, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 91 (Trinidad; Venezuela; Cayenne).— 

 Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 167 (Carampano and 

 Caracas, Venezuela).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. ]Mus., xii, 1888, 225 (Caru- 

 pano and Caracas, Venezuela; Trinidad; Cuba). 



[Chry.'^omitris] cuccullata Cory, List Birds W. I., revised ed., 1886, 12. 



[Chrysomitrls] cucullata Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 34 (Vene- 

 zuela). 



Fringllla cuhx Gervais, Mag.de Zool., 1835, Ois., pi. 44 (Cuba).— Cabaxis, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1856,10 (Cuba); 1857, 241 (Cuba).— Guxdlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1859, 295 (Cuba); 1861, 412 (Cuba); 1871, 282 (Cuba). 



Spinus cucullata Chap^ia^, Bull. Am. Mus. N.H., vi, 1894, 33 (Trinidad). 



Sphms cucullatui^ Fhelp}^, Auk, xiv, 1897,364 (San Antonio, Venezuela). 



SPINUS XANTHOGASTER (Du Pus). 

 BRYANT'S SISKIN. 



Adidt m(dc.—B.esid and neck, all round, and entire upper parts uni- 

 form black, relieved by a large lemon yellow patch on basal portion of 

 primaries and secondaries (except outermost of the former and three 

 innermost of the latter); tail (except middle rectrices), with basal half 

 or more light yellow; underparts, except chin, throat, and foreneck, 

 lemon yellow, more or less tinged with olive, especially on chest and 

 sides, the flanks more or less streaked or clouded with blackish; bill 

 horn color, darker terminally; legs and feet horn brownish; length 

 (skins), 93.98-95.25 (94. i9); 'wing, 63.50-64.26 (63.75); tail, 35.56- 

 37.34(36.32); exposed culmen, 9.65-10.16 (9.91); depth of bill at l)ase, 

 7.62; tarsus, 13.21-13.16; middle toe, 10.11.' 



Adult female.— Ahove uniform olive-green, somewhat lighter on 

 the rump; wings and tail blackish, marked with yellow as in the male, 

 but the yellow areas more restricted, especially on tail; lesser wing- 

 coverts olive-green, with darker centers, the middle and greater coverts 

 tipped with olive-green, and primaries narrowly edged with the same; 



iTwo specimens, one tbe type of Chrysomitris bryatitl Cassin, both from Dota, 

 Costa Rica. 



