Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. c r 



Genus Catharopeza Scl. 



Catharopeza Sclater, Ibis, iSSo, p. 73. 



Catharopeza bishopi (Lawr.). 



Leucofcza bishopi Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 151 (1S7S) ; ib. Pr. 



U. S. Nat. Mus. I. p. 4S6 (1878).— Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. X, 



p. 22S (1S85). 

 Catharopeza bishopi Scl. Ibis, iSSo, p. 73. — Lister, Ibis, 18S0, p. 40. — 



Cory, List Bds. W. I, p. S (1SS5). 

 Habitat. St. Vincent. 



Sp. Char. Male: — "The general plumage is smokj black; rather darker 

 on the head; the sides are blackish cinereous ; a circle of pure white 

 surrounds the eye ; a large roundish spot on the middle of the throat ; 

 the upper part of the breast, and the middle of the abdomen, are dull 

 white, somewhat mixed with blackish on the throat and with cinere- 

 ous on the abdomen ; a very small spot on the chin, and the tips of 

 the feathers on the upper part of the throat are dull white; the black 

 on the upper part of the breast has the appearance of a broad band, 

 separating the white of the throat from that of the lower part of the 

 breast; the under tail-coverts are cinereous-black at base, ending 

 largely with dull white; wings and tail black, the outer two tail- 

 feathers have a small white spot, triangular in shape, on the inner 

 webs at the end ; bill black ; tarsi and toes very pale yellowish-brown, 

 perhaps much lighter colored in the living bird, nails also pale. 



Length (fresh), s\ in- > wing, 25; tail, 2.^; tarsus, J. Two speci- 

 mens marked as females do not differ in plumage from the males." 

 (Lawr. 1. c.) 

 Habitat. St. Vincent. 



Genus Seiurus Swains. 

 Seiurus Swainson, Zool. Journ. Ill, p. 171 (1827). 



