^g Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 



Arbclorhina cyanca Cab. in Schomb. Guian. Ill, p. 675 (1S4S) ; ib. J. f. O. 

 1856, p. 98; ib. 1874, p. 139.-— GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 

 I, p. 291 (1S65). — Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VIII, p. 306 

 (i860). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Top of head bright pale blue ; a stripe of black passing 

 from the upper mandible and encircling the eye; sides of the head, 

 lower back, and entire underparts dark purplish blue, wings and 

 upper back black; inner webs of primaries and secondaries bright 

 yellow; sides and flanks greenish. 



Female: — Entire upper parts bright green ; underparts green, the sliafts 

 of the feathers showing dull white, giving a finely pencilled appear- 

 ance to the throat and breast; central portion of belly showing a 

 pale yellowish tinge. 



Length (skin); 4; wing, 2.60; tail, 1.30; tarsus, .50; bill, 50. 



Dr. Gundlach writes me that this species is abundant in many 

 portions of the Island of Cuba. 



Genus Glossiptila Scl. 



Glossiptila Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 269. 



Glossiptila ruficollis (Gmel.). 



Motacilla campestris Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 329 (1766). 



Tatiagra ruficollis "Gmel Syst. Nat. IL" 



Tachyphonus rufigularis Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 320. 



Tanagrella ruficollis Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 236 (1S47). — Gray, Gen. Bds. 

 Ill, App. p. 17 (1849).— Bp. Consp. I, p. 236 (1850). 



Pyrrhulagra rificollis Bp. Consp. I, p. 493 (1850) (excl. syn.). 



Neornis carulea Hartl. Nachtr. z. Verz. Mus. Brem. p. 8 (descr. nulla). 



Glossiptila ruficollis Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 269. — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, 

 p. 196. — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 296. — Baird, 

 Rev. Am. Bds. I, p. 163 (18S4).— Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 120 (1S69). 

 — ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 17 (1873). — A. &. E. New- 

 ton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 104 (1S81). — Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 9 

 (18S5). 



