BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 523 



SICALIS JAMAICiE Sharpe. 

 JAMAICAN YELLOW FINCH. 



"Adult male. — Similar to .S". f areola,^ but brighter and more uni- 

 form yellow above, with the bright orange of the crown continued to 

 the nape; 'upper mandible blackish, lower one horn}-; feet horn- 

 color; iris hazeF (Gosse). Total length, 119.38;" culmen, 10.16: wing, 

 66.04; tail, IS.T:^; tarsus, 11.91. 



''Three males from Jamaica agree in the above characters. Thej" 

 have the wing, 73. 66-76. :20." (Sharpe.) 



Jamaica. 



This species I have not seen. It seems to be very rare in collections. 



Critliagra brasUiensis (iiot Emberiza braf<iUensis Gmelin) Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 



1847, 245; Illustr. Birds Jam., 1849, pi. 61.— 3Iarch, Proc. Ac. Xat. Sci. 



Phila., 1863, 298 (Jamaica). 

 S)jrali.t brasilieusis Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 197 (Jamaica). — Sclater, 



Proe. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 74 (Jamaica). 

 Sycalis f areola (not FringiUa flaveola Liniifeus) Sclater, Ibis, 1872, 41, part 



(Jamaica) . 

 [Sycalis'] flaveola Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 13 (Jamaica). 

 Sicalis flaveola Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 213 (Jamaica); Birds W. I., 1889, 100 (do.). 

 S-ii/calis'] flava (not FringiUa flava Miiller) A. and E. Newton, Handb. Birds 



Jamaica, 1881, 117 (considered an introduced species). 

 [Sycalis fluveola.} Subsp. a. Sycalis jamaiae Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 



1888", 379 (Jamaica; Brit. Mus.). 

 Sycalis jamaiae Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 16, 113, 130, 151. 

 Sicalis flaveola jamaiae Scott, Auk, x, April, 1893, 179. 



SICALIS CHRYSOPS Sclater. 

 MEXICAN YELLOW FINCH. 



Adult male. — Forehead, sides of head and neck, and rump olive- 

 3-ellow, the first with a few narrow and indistinct streaks of darker; 

 crown, occiput, hindneck, and lower back j^ellowish olive-green, 

 streaked with dusky; back and scapulars grayish brown, tinged with 

 olive-green, broadly streaked with black, the black streaks more or 

 less edged with brown ; upper tail-coverts and last row of lesser wing- 

 coverts light yellowish gray, the latter dusky basally; smaller lesser 

 wing-coverts yellowish olive-green; wings and tail dusky, the larger 

 wing-coverts and tertials broadly margined with pale wood brown, the 

 primaries and rectrices edged with pale grayish yellow; supraloral spot, 

 malar region, and entire under parts canary yellow, paler posteriorly 

 (longer under tail-coverts almost white at tips), the sides faintly tinged 

 with olive; maxilla dusky horn color, mandible pale horn color; legs 



^ Sicalis flaveola is a South American species, ranging over the greater part of the 

 continent. [FringiUa^ flaveola Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 321. — Sycalis flaveola 

 Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1871, 231; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 377. 



^The measurements in inches and decimals in the original. 



