554 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



depth of bill at base, 10.41; tarsus, 19.5i)-'2().32 (20.07); middle toe, 

 13.21-13.72(13.46).^ 



Three immature males measure as follows: Length (skins) , Io4.o7-145.80 (141.99) ; 

 wing, 72.39-74.68 (73.66); tail, 57.66-62.99 (65.79); exposed culmen, 14.48-15.49 

 (14.99); depth of bill at base, 11.68-12.70 (12.19); tarsus, 20.32-21.59 (20.83); middle 

 toe, 14.48-15.24 (14.99). 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. 



Loxlgilla violacea (not Loxia vlolacea Linnpeus) Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1857, 231 (Santo Domingo). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 102, part 

 (Santo Domingo). — Tristram, Ibis, 1884, 168 ( Santo Domingo ) . — Cory, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 152 (Haiti); Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 69, 

 pi. 21, tig. 6 (Samana and Almercen, Santo Domingo); Auk, iii, 1886, 203, 

 part (Haiti and Santo Domingo); Birds W. I., 1889, 90, part (do.). — Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 82, part (Haiti and Santo Domingo). 



[LoxigUla] violacea Sclater and Salvix, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 27, part. — Cory, 

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



Loxia i'iotacea Bryant, Proc. Bos. Soc. N. H., xi, 1866,93 (Port au Prince, Haiti). 



Pijrrlmlagra violacea Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 15, 112, 148, part (Haiti and 

 Santo Domingo). — Cherrie, Contr. Orn. San. Dom., 1896, 15 (Santo Domingo 

 City, Catare, and Aguacate; crit. ; halnts). 



Pyrrhulagra affinis (Baird) Ridgway, Auk, xv, Oct., 1898, 322 (Port au Prince, 

 Haiti; U. S. Nat. Mus.; e's. Loxig ilia a ffinis Baird, manuscript). 



PYRRHULAGRA NOCTIS NOCTIS (Linnaeus). 

 MARTINIGTJE BULLFINCH. 



Adult male. — A small supraloral spot or bar, and a sharply defined 

 patch covering- chin and throat, riifous-chestniit or burnt sienna; rest 

 of plumage uniform black, including under tail-coverts, the latter 

 rarely with a slight admixture of chestnut-rufous; under wing-coverts 

 largely Avhite. sometimes tinged with rufous; bill black, the mandible 

 sometimes brownish; legs and feet dusky horn color; length (skins), 

 119.13-142.4!:) (130.81); wing, 69.85-72.39 (71.63); tail, 50.80-52.8^ 

 (51.82); exposed cidmen, 12.70-12.95 (12.78); depth of bill at base, 

 9.65; tarsus, 19.05-20.07 (19.56); middle toe, 13.21-14.22 (13.72).' 



Adult female. — Above uniform dark olive, passing into raw-umber 

 brown on upper tail-coverts; wings dusky, the greater coverts ))roadly 

 edged with russet, the remiges edged with light olive or broccoli 

 brown; tail olive with paler indistinct edgings; under parts deep olive- 

 gray, paler on abdomen, the under tail-coverts })roadly margined with 

 light tawny-olive or russet; maxilla dusky, mandible pale brownish 

 with dusky tip; legs and feet dusky horn color; length (one skin), 

 121.41; wing, 65.02-67.56 (66.29); tail (one specimen), 49.53; exposed 

 culmen, 11.18-12.45 (11.94); depth of bill at base, 8.13-8.89 (8.64); 

 tarsus, 18.54-19.30 (19.05); middle toe, 13.21.' 



^ Two specimens. ^ Four specimens. 



