550 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



PYRRHULAGRA PORTORICENSIS (Daudin). 

 PORTO RICAN BULLFINCH. 



Adult male. — Pileum (except forehead), chin, throat, chest, and 

 under tail-coverts orang-e-rufous, the first extending- much farther 

 backward laterally than medially, the second with a strongly convex 

 and abrupt posterior outline; rest of plumage uniform rich black; 

 bill, legs, and feet black; length (skins), 167.13-182.63 (171.50); wing, 

 86.61-02.96 (89.92); tail, 69.60-77.72 (73.15); exposed culmen, 15.49- 

 17.53 (16.51); depth of bill at base, 13.21-14.99 (13.97);. tarsus, 23.37- 

 24.38 (23.88); middle toe, 14.99-17.53 (16.00).' 



Adult female. — Similar to adult male, but averaging rather smaller 

 and with the black slight!}^ less intense. Length (skins), 160.02-169.93 

 (164.08); wing, 80.01-88.39 (83.06); tail, 67.06-76.20 (70.87); exposed 

 culmen, 13.97-17.27 (14.99); depth of bill at base, 11.94-14.99 (13.46); 

 tarsus, 21.84-24.64 (22.86); middle toe, 14.73-17.27 (15.75).~ 



Immature. — Above deep olive-brown, beneath paler olive-brown or 

 olive; under tail-coverts orange-rufous; bill, legs, and feet dusk}-. 



Island of Porto Rico, Greater Antilles. 



Loxia 2Jortoric(^nsis Daudix, Traite d'C)rii., ii, 1809, 411 (Porto Eie-o; based on 



Passer nigev, punctis croceis, Sloane, Jamaica) . — Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. 



N. H., X, 1866, 254. 

 P.[ifylus) portorkensis Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1848, 362. 

 {^FijrrhukHjra'] portoricensis^o^A.v\B.T-E, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 493. 

 Pyrrhidagra portoricensis GvsDhAcn, Anal. Soc. Esji. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 303. — 



Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 15, 112, 132, 149. 

 \_Sporophila] portoricensis Giebel, Thes. Orn., iii, 1877, 522. 

 l^Goniaphea'] portorkensis GTL.>i.Y , Hand-list, ii, 1870, 104, no. 7564. 

 LoxigUla portorkensis Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 205 (synonymy and descr. ); Birds 



W. I., 1889, 92 (do.).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 87. 

 \_LoxigUla'\ portoricensis Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 12. 



Scotospiza portor.l^icensis'] Suxdevall, Ofv. K. Vet.-Ak. Forh., 1869, 597, in text. 

 Pyrrhida auranticoUis Yieillot, Nouy. Die. d'Hist. Nat., iv, 1816, 300 (based on 



Loxia portoricensis Daudin) ; Ene. ]\Ieth., 1823, 1028. 



PYRRHULAGRA GRANDIS (Lawrence). 

 ST. CHRISTOPHER BULLFINCH. 



Similar to P. portwicen^ih but niuch larger and with the rufous 

 markings darker (intermediate between ferrug'inous and vinaceous- 

 rufous); that of the throat more restricted, scarcely extending to the 

 chest, and that of the under tail-coverts mixed with black. 



Adult y/^«7<^.— Length (skins), 199.14-208.28 (205.99); wing, 97.79- 

 101.60 (99.57); tail, 77.47-83.31 (80.52); exposed culmen, 20.57-21.59 

 (20.83); depth of bill at base, 16.51-17.27 (17.02); tarsus, 26.16-27.43 

 (26.67); middle toe, 19.05-20.07 (19.56).' 



^ Seven specimens. ^ Five specimens. 



