BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 561 



PYRRHULAGRA BARBADENSIS Cory. 

 BARBADOS BUIIFINCH. 



iilui. in all stages, to the adult female or immature male of 



md allied forms (intermediate in coloration between P. n. 



iid P. n. rldgvxiyi)^ but without the rusty or buffy tinge on 



Adnlt y/.rt/c— Length (skin), 129.54; wing, 71.88; tail, 19.78; 

 exposed culmen, 13.72; tarsus, 20.32; middle toe, 14.48.^ 



A(hdt fvmale.—ljength (skins), 116.08-133.10 (120.65); wing, 65.02- 

 73.66 (70.10); tail, 45.47-53.34 (47.75); exposed culmen, 12.19-13.46 

 (12.70); depth of bill at base, 7.87-8.13 (8.13); tarsus, 19.81-20.32 

 (20.07); middle toe, 13.21-15.24 (14.22)."' 



Island of Barbados, Lesser Antilles. 



According to Mr. Cory the adult male of this form never assumes 

 the black and chestnut-rufous plumage of other forms, but remains in 

 a plumage indistinguishable from that of the adult female. The latter 

 resembles the same sex of the lighter colored allied forms, especially 

 P. noctls sclaterl and P. n. ridgimyl, between which it is exactly inter- 

 mediate in coloration, but both sexes lack the distinct buffy or light 

 rusty suffusion to the lores, etc. , to be seen in all the other forms. 



Loxigilla noct'is (not Fringilla noctis Linnaeus) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1874, 175 (Barbados).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 204, part; Birds W. I., 1889, 

 290, part.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 84, part (Barbados). 



[Loxigilla] noctis Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 12, i)art. 



Loxigilla barbadensis Cory, Auk, iii, July, 1886, 382 (Barbados; coll. C. B. Cory); 

 V, 1888, 158; Birds W. I., 1889, 290. 



Pyrrhulagra barbadensis Co-RY, Cat. AV. L Birds, 1892, 16, 112, 132, 134, 150. 



Genus MELOPYRRHA Bonaparte. 



Melopiirrlia Bonaparte, Conipt. Rend., xxxvii, 1853, 924. (Type, Loxia nigra 

 Linmtus?) 



Rather small rounded winged Fringillidaj with short, thick, and 

 strongh' arched bill, tail about ffve-sixths as long as wing, rounded, 

 the coloration uniform black or dark slat}^ with white under wing- 

 coverts. 



Bill short but very deep (exposed culmen shorter than middle toe 

 without claw and less than depth of bill at base), the culmen strongly 

 convex and the maxillary tomium arched; mandible deeper than the 

 maxilla, with tomium strongly convex anteriorly and abruptly augu- 

 lated just back of the middle; gonys straight, decidedly long-er than 

 the mandibular rami, but shorter than the distance from the nostril to 

 the tip of the maxilla; width of mandible at base decidedly greater 



\One specimen, the type. ^ Five specimens. 



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