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LOXIMITRIS DOMINICENSIS (Bryant). 



HAITIAN GOLDFINCH. "* 



Adult male. — Head, all round, uniform black; back, scapulars, and 

 lesser and middle wing-coverts j^ellowish olive-green; rump olive- 

 3xllow; wings blackish, with olive-green edgings, these absent from 

 basal portion of secondaries; middle pair of rectrices blackish, edged 

 with olive-green; remaining rectrices yellow, broadl}' tipped with 

 black, the external one with outer web black; under parts (except chin 

 and throat) yellow, tinged with olive laterally; bill whitish (light 

 brownish in dried skin); legs and feet deep brownish or horn color; 

 length (skin) about 104.14; wing, 67.31; tail, 11.15; culmen (about), 

 10.16; depth of bill at base (about), 10.16; tarsas, 15.21; middle toe, 



8.13. 



Adult female.—'' Head and back, dull olive, lightly mottled with 

 dusky brownish, the rump and upper tail coverts ... a little 

 brighter olive and without any mottling; . . . quills . . . narrowly 

 margined with bright olive yellow; . . . greater, middle, and lesser 

 coverts . . . margined with the dull olive of the back, but the greater 

 and middle coverts . . . also broadly tipped with light olive yellow, 

 forming two distinct wing-bands; . . . rectrices blackish brown, nar- 

 rowly margined with 3-ellowish on . . . inner webs; . . . throat, upper 

 breast, and sides . . . dusky olive-gray; belly and crissum whitish, . . . 

 all mottled with blackish-l^rown shaft streakings; . . . under tail cov- 

 erts broadh' marked with blackish shaft streaks." ^ 



Youmj.—"' Similar to adult females, but brighter olive (yellow) above 

 and decidedly yellowish, or yellowish olive, in place of grayish or whit- 

 ish below.'"' ^ 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles (Port au Prince, Le Coup, and 

 mountains near Petionville, Haiti; Aguacate and Catarre, Santo 

 • Domingo.) 



rjirysomitris dominicensis Bryant, Proc. Bost. 80c. N. H., xi, Dec. 5, 1866, 93 

 " (Port au Prince, Haiti; U. S. Nat. Mus.) .—Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 

 1881, 152 (near Petionville, Haiti). 

 IFringiUal dommicenxis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 81, no. 7185. 

 Loximitris dominicensis Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 67, pi. (11) (Le 

 Coup and Port au Prince, Haiti); Auk, iii, 1886, 207; Birds W. I., 1889, 94; 

 Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 15, 111, 131.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 

 234.— Cherrie, Pub. 10, Field Columb. Mus., Orn. ser., i, no. 1, 1896, 16 (Agua- 

 cate and Catare, Santo Domingo; descriptions). 

 [Lo.rimitris'] dominicensis Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 12. 



Genus ASTRAGALINUS Cabanis. 

 Astragcdin us - Cabanis, Mus. Hein. , i, July, 1851 , 159. (Type, FringiUa tristi^ Lin- 



nseus. See Ridgway, Auk, xv, 1899, 79. ) 

 Pseudomitris Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. , 1865, 93. (Type, FringiUa psaltria 



Say.) . 



1 Cherrie, Pub. 10, Field Columb. Mus., Orn. ser.,i, no. 1, 1896, 16. 

 ^ "Von ddrpaxaXivO!;, 6 Distelfink." 



