BIRDS OF XORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 537 



Phoriipara canora Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 159, in text. — Siiarpe, 



Cat. Biixis Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 144. 

 P.[hoiiiparu] canora Baird, Brewer, and Ripgway, Hist. X. Am. Birds, ii, 



1874, 93. 

 EuPthia canora Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., iv, Jan., 1856, 7 (descr. eggs). — Thiene- 



MAN, Journ. fiirOrn., v, 1857, 150 (descr. eggs). — Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. 



X. H., vii, 1860, 307.— Guxdlach, Repert. Fisico-X^at. Cuba, i, 1866, 284; 



Journ. fiir Orn., xxii, 1874, 123; Orn. Cuba, 1878, 92.— Chapmax, Bull. Am. 



Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 308 (near Trinidad, Cuba). 

 Enetheki canora Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 209; Birds W. I., 1889, 96; Cat. W. I. Birds, 



1892, 16, 113, 129 (Cuba; Isle of Pines).— Merriam, Auk, y, 1888, 322 (Som- 

 brero Key, Florida, 1 spec). — Americax Orxithologists' Union, Check 



List, abridged ed., 1889,' no. 603.1. 

 [Euetlieia'] canora Cory, List, Birds W. I., L885, 12. 

 E.[netheia] canora Ridgway, Man. X. Am. Birds, 1887, 451. 

 [Possermcf] canora Gray, Hand-list Birds, ii, 1870, 98, no. 7453. 

 Ff/rrhula coUaris Vigors, Zool. Journ., iii, no. xi, Dec, 1827, 440 (near Ha])ana 



Cuba). 

 Pdxiifviiui coJhiris GuNDLACu, Joui-u. fiir Orn., vi, 1853, 317. 



EUETHEIA BICOLOR BICOLOR ( Linnsus) . 

 BAHAMA GRASSQXriT. 



Adult male.^Ahoye plain dull olive-green, becoming darker and 

 duller on pileuni, wherp .-sometimes quite dusky anteriorly; re.st of 

 head and under parts as far ))a('kward as, and sonietimes including, 

 abdomen plain black: sides and Hanks dull olive or olive-grayish; 

 abdomen usually l)lackisli, with or without dull whitish or pale grayish 

 margins to the feathers; under tail-coverts dusky, broadly margined 

 with white; bill black; tarsi brownish, toes darker; length (skins), 

 103.63-118.11 (109.22); wing, ,5O.S0-5.5..S,S (53.85); tail. 38.61-43.69 

 (11.91); exposed culmen, 8.89-10.16 (9.40); depth of bill at base, 7.37- 

 7.87 (7.62); tarsus, 15.75-18.51 (17.02); middle toe, 11.13-13.21 (11.91).i 



Adult fc III (lie. — Above similar to adult male, but pileum concolor 

 with back or more grayish (rarely more dusky); undtM- parts olive- 

 grayish, sometimes slightly clouded with dusky on chest or throat, the 

 abdomen nearly white, and flanks tinged, more or less, with olive- 

 yellowish or bufly; mandible paler than maxilla; length (skins), 98.04- 

 109.73 (107.44); wing, 50.04-54.86 (52.32); tail, 38.10-41.40 (39.88); 

 exposed culmen, 9.14-10.16 (9.65); depth of bill at base, 7.11-7.62 

 (7.37); tarsus, 16.26-17.78 (17.02); middle toe, 11.18-12.45 (11.68).- 



Young.— ^m\\\^v to adult fen^ale but rather paler. (Immature 

 males are variously intermediate in plumage between adult males and 

 iemales.) 



^ Twenty-four specimens. ^ Eleven specimens. 



