BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



557 



Islands of Dominica, Marie Galante, Desirade, Grande Terre, and 

 Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles. 



Loxigilla noctis (not FringiUa nocfls Linnaeus) Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 i, 1878, 57 (Dominica; crit. ; descr. nest and eggs), 457 (Guadeloupe), 487, 

 part (Dominica; Guadeloupe). — (?) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, 

 764 (Montserrat).— (?) Grisdale, Ibis, 1882, 486, 487 (Montserrat).— Cory, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 204, part; viii, 1891, 49 (Guadeloupe); Birds W. I., 1889, 91, 

 part. — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 84, part (Guadeloupe; 

 Dominica; Montserrat?). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889, 326 

 (Dominica). 



[Loxigilla'] noctis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr. 187.3, 27, part. — Cory, 

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



PijrrJudagra noctis ridgwayi, part, Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 15, 112, 150 

 (Guadeloupe; Desirade; Marie Galante; Dominica; Montserrat?) 



Loxigilla noctis schlateri (not L. n. sclateri Allen) Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad., 

 viii, 1892, 337 (Dominica; crit; descr. nest and eggs). 



Pgrrhnlagra dominicana Ridc4\vay, Auk, xv, Oct., 1898, 323 (Dominica, Lesser 

 Antilles; U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



PYRRHULAGRA NOCTIS CRISSALIS Ridgway. 

 ST. VINCENT BULLFINCH. 



Similar to P. n. noctis but under tail-coverts chestnut-rufous, like 

 the throat, and the chestnut-rufous throat-patch more extensive; adult 

 female and immature male lighter and clearer (less brownish) oliva- 

 ceous above, more yellowish olive-grav beneath. Still more like P. n. 

 dominicensis^ which also has usualh^ chestnut-rufous under tail-coverts, 

 but adult male more intensely black and with chestnut-rufous throat- 

 patch extending farther backward (to anterior portion of chest). 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 122.17-133.35 (127.51); wing, 70.10- 

 72.90(71.12); tail, 49.53-50.29 (49.78); exposed culmen, 12.70-13.21 

 (12.95); tarsus, 19.56-19.81 (19.64); middle toe, 12.95-14.73 (13.72).^ 



series of adult males shows the following variation in coloration of the under tail- 

 coverts: 



Where the interrogation mark follows a figure in the above table the proportionate 

 amount of black and rufous can not be determined on account of the under tail- 

 coverts being partly wanting. 



^ Three specimens. 



