Cory on the Birch of the West Indies. 6q 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage dull blue; a stripe of dull black from 

 the bill to the eje, showing slightly on the forehead ; a large patch 

 of rufous on the throat; quills and tail dark brown, feathers edged 

 with blue; bill black; feet horn color. 



Female: — Top of head bluish gray, shading into grayish olive on 

 the back; wings edged with pale brown; underparts gray, faintly 

 streaked; tail brown. 



Length (skin), 5; wing, 3; tail, 1.75; tarsus, .58. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Genus Chlorophanes Reich. 



Chlorophanes " Reich. Handb. p. 234 (1853). ' 



Chlorophanes spiza (Linn.). 



Certhia spiza LiNN. Syst. Nat. I, p. 186 (1766). 



Certhia spiza var. ? Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 476 (17SS). 



Coereba atricapilla Vieill. Nouv. Diet. XIV, p. 50. (1817). 



Ccereba spiza Max. Beitr. Ill, p. 771 (1831). 



Ceereba atricapilla Bp. Consp. I, p. 400 (1850). • 



Dacttis atricapilla ScL. Contr. Orn. p. 108 (1851). 



Chlorophanes atricapilla "Reich. Handb. p. 234 (1853)." — ScL. Cat. Am. 

 Bds. p. 52 (1862). — Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 163 (1864). — Gray, 

 Handl. Bds. I, p. 118 (1S69). — ScL. & Salv. Norn. Avium Neotr. p. 

 1(5 (1S73) (Cuba).— Cory, List Bds. W. L p. 9 (1885). 



Dacnis spiza Cab. Mas. Hein. I, p. 95 (1850). — BuRM. Syst. Ueb. Ill, p. 



Neciarina mitrata Light. Doubl. p. 15. 



Sp. Char. Male: — Head and cheeks black, rest of plumage, including 

 throat, bright bluish green; quills and tail dark brown, edged with 

 greenish ; under surface of wing steel gray. 



Female :-*~Entire plumage light green, brightest on the back, and 

 palest on the underparts; under surface of wing dull white. 



Length (skin), 5; wing, 2.75; tail, 2; tarsus, .75. 



A male bird of this species in my cabinet is labelled Cuba, and 

 Messrs. Sclater and Salvin (1. c.) record it from there. It is prob- 

 able that if the localities given are correct, the specimens in ques- 

 tion were escaped cage birds. 



Family HIRUNDINID^. 



Genus Progne Boie. 

 Progne Boie, Isis, 1S26, p. 971. 



