BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 548 



IPassetvna] marchii Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 98, no. 7457. 



Phonipara zena (not Frmgilht zena Linnt^eus) B.\ird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 93, part (Jamaica; Haiti).— Cory, Birds Haiti 

 and San Dom., 1885, 63, pi. 21, tig. 7 (Samana, Santo Domingo). 



EUETHEIA BICOLOR SHARPEI (Hartert). 

 CTTRA<?AO GRASSQUIT. 



Adult male. — Similar to that of E. h. omissa but paler, e.specially the 

 under parts, the chin, throat, chest, and breast (tog-ether with cheeks 

 and forehead) being dull slate color, instead of black, the flanks light 

 olive-grayish, and the under tail-coverts broadly margined with white; 

 length (skin), 102.87; wing, 52.83; tail, 37.08: exposed culmen, 10.16; 

 depth of bill at base, 7.62; tarsus, 17.27; middle toe, 12.19.^ 



Adult feiiiale. — Similar to that of E. !>. omissa but paler, the upper 

 parts light olive, tinged with pale hair brown, the under parts pale 

 bufiy gra^nsh. becoming white on abdomen; wing, 51.31; tail. 35.56; 

 exposed culmen, 10.16; depth of bill at base, 7.87.^ 



Islands of Aruba. Curasao, and Bonaire, Caribbean Sea. 



Euetheia bicolor (not Fringilla bicolor Linnpeus) Berlepsch, Journ. fiir C)rn., 1892, 



81 (Cura^'ao). — Peters, Journ. fiir Orn., 1892, 11(5 (Cura(;ao). — Robinsox, 



Flying Trip to Tropics, 1895, 165 (Curasao). 

 Euetheki sharpel Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, no. vii, i\Iar. 28, 1893, p. 



xxxvii (islands of Bonaire, Curasao, and Aruba, Dutch "West Indies"); 



Ibis, 1893, 314 (Curasao, crit.), 295 (Aruba), 315 (Aruba, Curasao, Bonaire; 



diagn.; descr. nest and eggs), 328 (Bonaire). 



EUETHEIA GRANDIOR Cory. 

 OLD PROVIDENCE GRASSQUIT. 



Similar to E. hiro/o/- omissn but much larger; adult male with upper 

 parts lighter and brighter olive-green; fully adult male with black of 

 under parts extending backward over abdomen, but under tail-coverts 

 broadly margined with didl yellowish white, only the central portion 

 being dusky (sometimes the dusky centers obsolete); mandible deep 

 black, like maxilla; length (skins), 109.22-118.11 (113.54); wing, 58.42- 

 61.72 (59.94); tail, 46.48-50.80 (48.26); exposed culmen, 9.65-10.41 

 (9.91); depth of bill at base (one specimen), 8.13; tar.sus, 18.03-19.30 

 (18.80); middle toe. 12.70-13.46 (12.95)." 



AduJt female. — Similar in color to that of E. hlcolor and its subspe- 

 cies but much larger, and rather lighter and clearer olive-green above; 

 length (skins), 106.68-116.84 (111.25); wing, 58.42-60.96 (59.44); tail, 

 46.99-48.26 (47.50); exposed culmen, 9.65-10.67 (9.91); depth of bill 



^One specimen, from Curasao. ^Six specimens. 



