Cory on the. Birds of the West T/tdtcs. 



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Genus Habropyga Caban. 



Habropyga Cabanis, Wiegm. Archiv, 1S47, XIII, p. 331; Mus. Hein. I, 

 p. 169. 



Habropyga melpoda (Vieill.). 



Frhigilla melpoda Vieill. Nouv. Diet. XII, p. 177 (i Si 7). 

 Habropyga melpoda Gundl. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 206 (187S) 

 (Porto Rico). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Top of head drab gray; sides of the head and cheeks, 

 including the eye, reddish orange ; back and wings light brown ; 

 lower rump and upper tail-coverts crimson; throat dull white, shad- 

 ing into gray on the sides of the neck, separating the orange of the 

 cheeks from the brown of the upper parts; rest of underparts dull 

 grayish, showing a purplish tinge on the flanks; a spot of pale red- 

 dish orange near the vent; wings and tail brown. 



Female: — Top of head drab gray, paler than in the male; rest of 

 upper parts like the male ; no orange on side of the head ; underparts 

 showing a pale orange yellow tinge. 



Length (skin), 4.10; wing, 1.85; tail, 1.75; tarsus, .56. 



An introduced species, common in Porto Rico. 



Family PLOCEID^E. 



Genus Spermestes Swains. 

 Spermestes Swainson, Class. Birds, p. 2S0 (1837). 



Spermestes cucullatus (Swains.). 



Loxia cuctillata SwAlNS. Zool. 

 Illust. 1820, pi. 7. 



Spermestes cuctillata S W A i N s. 

 Reich. Singv. t. 12, pp. 114, 115. 

 — Bp. Consp. I, p. 454 (1S50). — 

 SuNDEV. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. 

 Forh. 1869, p. 597. — Gray, Hand!. 

 Bds. II, p. 54 (1870). 



Loxia (Spermestes) cuctillata Bry- 

 ant, Pr. B ost. Soc. Nat. Hist. X. 

 p. 254 (1S66). 

 Spermestes cucullattis Gundl. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 206 

 (1878).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 13 (1S85). 



