I OO Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 



Spinites pallidus Cab. J. f. O. 1856, p. 7 (Cuba). 



Spizella socialis GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 284 (1866); ib. J. f. O. 

 1874, p. 121 (Cuba).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 13 (1885). 



Accidental in Cuba. 



Genus Sicalis Boie. 

 Sicalis Boie, 1828. 



Sicalis flaveola (Linn.). • 



Fringilla flaveola Linn. Sjst. Nat. I, p. 321 (1766). 



Fringilla flava MiJLL. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 164 (1766). 



Embcriza brasiliensisGjAKi.. Sjst. Nat. L P- 872 (178S).— Lafr. et D'Orb. 



Sjn. Av. 1837, p. 73. 

 Fringilla brasilicnsis Spix, Av. Bras. I, p. 47, pi. 61.— Max. Beitr. IH, p. 



614(1831). 

 Sicalis brasilicnsis TscH. Faun. Per. p. 215 (1844). — Cab. in Schomb. 



Guian. Ill, p. 679 (1848).— Burm. Svst. Ueb. Ill, p. 253.— Scl. P. 



Z. S. 1861, p. 74. — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 197. — Taylor, Ibis, 



1864, p. 83. — Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 328. 

 Crithagra brasiliensis GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 245 (1847).— Bp. Consp. I, 



p. 521 (1820). — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1863, p. 298. 

 Sycalis auripcctus Bp. Compt. Rend. 37, p. 917.— Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 



159; ib. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 126 (1S62). 

 Sicalis fava Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 84 (1870).— A. & E. Newton, 



Ilandb. Jamaica, p. 117 (i88i). 

 Sycalis flaveola Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 231 (1871).— Scl. Ibis, 1S72, p. 41.— 



Scl. & Salv. Norn. Avium Neotr. p. 34 (1S73). — Cory, List. Bds. 



W. I. p. 13 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above olive green, slightly marked on the back M-ilh 

 pale streaks; forehead orange; underparts yellow; Avings and tail 

 pale brown, the outer webs of primaries and outer and inner webs of 

 secondaries edged with yellow; tail-feathers edged with yellow. 



Female: — Resembles the male, but much paler; underparts being 

 grayish, tinged with yellow, and under surface becoming white on 

 the belly; orange on the forehead showing very slightly if at all. 

 Length (skin), 5.50; wing, 2.75; tail, 2; tarsus, .75. 

 Habitat. Jiimaica. 



The specimens described are from Brazil, as I possess none 

 from Jamaica. 



Carduelis elcgans (Linn.) is recorded from Cuba by Dr. 

 Gundlach (Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 396, 1866). It was 

 proliablv an escaped cage bird. 



