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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



lit biLse (three specimens), 8,13; tarsu.s. 1T.78-1S.SO (18.20): middle 

 roe, 12.70-18,21 (13,12). ^ 



Islands of Old Providence and St, Andrews, Caribbean Sea, 



Euetheia hlcolor (not FringUUi hicolor Linnani^) Coky, Auk, iv, 18S7, ISl (St. 



Andrews, Caribbean Sea). 

 Enetheia yrandior Cory, Auk, iv, July, 1887, 245 (Island uf Old I'rovideuce, 



Caril)bean Sea; coll. C. B. Cory). 



Genus MELANOSPIZA Ridgway. 



Mdanosplza Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mu(<., xix, no. llUi, Mar. 15, 1897, 46« 

 footnote.- (Type, Lo.vigilla richanlwHi Cory.) 



Related to E^idluia Reichenbach, l)ut l)ill relatively much larger, 

 and with the subbasal angle of the mandibular tomium produced into 

 a distinct point; also much larger than JSnetJiela^ and the adult male 

 wholly deep black, except legs and feet, which are brownish white. 



Size medium (wing more than 63,50), Wing three and one-fourth 

 times as long as tarsus, much rounded (ninth primar}" shorter than 

 third); primaries exceeding secondaries l)y decidedly less than length 

 of exposed culmen. Tail a little less than three-fourths as long as 

 wing, even or slightly emarginated, the rectrices rather 1)road, with 

 rounded ends. Tarsus about one and a half times as long as exposed 

 culmen. its scutella obsolete on outer side, indistinct on inner side; 

 middle toe with claw decidedly shorter than tarsus; lateral claws 

 reaching a])out to Imso of middle claw; hallux shorter than inner toe, 

 its claw nearly as long as the digit. 



Cohii'atioji. — Adult male wholly deep black, except legs and feet, 

 which are brownish white; female and young unknown. 



Range. — Island of Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles. (Monotypic) 



This l)ird comes very near, structurally, to Eud]t<'ni^ l)ut can hardly 

 be referred to that genus. It bears, superticiallv, a remarkable resem- 



^ Six specimens. 



I can not detect any difference between s])eciniens from the two i;<lands, there 

 being an equal number of both sexes from each. Their average measurements are 

 as follows: 



-Inadvertently redescribed in The Auk, xv, July (pub. 3Iay 13), 1898, 224 



