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YoaiKj^ after first molt. — Above gra^'ish olive or deep olive-g-ray, 

 beneath decidedly paler, especial!}^ on abdomen: legs and feet, and 

 sometimes bill, dark horn brownish; rufous markings of the adult 

 present, that of the throat, however, much restricted and more or less 

 broken. 



Young hi first plumage. — Similar to the preceding, but coloration 

 much less grayish, the upper parts broccoli brown, the under parts 

 dull light gra3dsh buffy, darker on chest, sides, and Hanks; rufous 

 markings as in the preceding. 



Immature. — Variously intermediate between the grayish young and 

 black adult. 



Bahama Islands (Great Bahama; Al)aco; Berry Islands; Eleuthera; 

 New Providence; Andros; San Salvador; Long Island; Acklin Island; 

 North Caicos; Grand Caicos; East Caicos; Maragauna; Great Inagua). 



\Loxia\ violacea Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ^d. 10, i, 1758, 176 (Bahamas; leased on 

 Coccothraustes purpurea Caieshy , Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 40, pi. 40); ed. 12, i, 

 1766, .306.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 864.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 

 379. 



\Piirrhidagra'\ violacea Bonaparte, Consj). Av., i, 1850, 493. 



Pyrrhulagra violacea Ridgway, Auk, viii, Oct., 1891, 334 (Abaco I.), 335 (New 

 Providence I.), 336 (Eleuthera I.), 337 (Cat I.).— Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 

 1892, 15, 112, 148, part (Bahamas). 



[Lox%gilla'\ violacea Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 27, part. — Cory, 

 List Birds W. I., 1885, 12, part. 



Loxigilla violacea Cory, Birds Bahama I., 1880, 85; Auk, iii, 1886, 203 part (Baha- 

 mas); viii, 1891, 294 (New Providence I.), 295 (Berry Islands), 297 (Caicos 

 and Inagua islands) , 298 (Abaco I.) , 350 (Great Bahama and Abaco islands), 

 351 (Eleuthera and Inagua islands); ix, 1892, 48 (Maragauna I.), 49 (Inagua 

 I.); Birds W. I., 1889, 90, part (Bahamas).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xii, 1888, 82, part (Bahamas) .—Northrop, Auk, viii, 1891, 70 (Andros I.). 



Spermophila violacea Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859, 119 (Bahamas). 



\_(roniaphea] violacea Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 104, no. 7652. 



rijrrhula superciliosa Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., iv, 1816, 300 (based on 

 Loxia violacea Linngeus). 



(?) Pyrrhula rufobarbata (not Fringilla rufobarbata Jacquin, 1784) Hahn and 

 KtJSTER, Vog. aus Asien, etc., Pt. vii, 1850, pi. 6.' 



[Loxigilla violacea] (i. bahamensisTiiTiGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. ^lus., i, Dec. 10, 1878, 

 250 (Bahamas; U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



PYRRHULAGRA VIOLACEA RUFICOLLIS (Gmelin). 

 JAMAICAN BULLFINCH. 



Similar to P. v. vJolacea but wing and tail averaging decidedly 

 longer; adults with rufous of throat and superciliary mark lighter 

 (clear ferruginous instead of nearly brick red), the latter decidedly 

 smaller; immature liirds much darker and more olivaceous than tho.se 

 of I\ V. violacea, the upper parts deep or dark olive instead of grayish 

 olive or olive-grayish. 



'Reference from Sharpe; may belong to the Haitian <>r Jamaican furms. 



