Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 67 



olive on the abdomen ; lower rump narrowly banded with olive 

 green; upper parts dull slate color; wing-coverts sometimes 

 slightly tipped with white. 



Length (skin), 4.15 ; wing, 2.28; tail, 1.60; tarsus, .64. Another 

 specimen: Length (skin), 4.35; wing, 2.33; tail, 1.70; tarsus, 68. 

 Habitat. Santa Lucia and Martinique. 



C.Jinschi Ridgw. is probably a phase of plumage of this spe- 

 cies. Some specimens from Martinique in my collection have the 

 superciliary stripe yellow, and also show yellow on the throat. 

 The locality given where the type specimen of C.Jinsckl was 

 taken is, as Mr. Ridgway suggests, undoubtedly incorrect. The 

 same variation in coloring on account of age and season is shown 

 in the San Domingo species C bananivora. 



Certhiola atrata Lawr. 



Certhiola atrata Lawr. Am. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 150 (1878) ; ib. Pr. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 487 (1S78).— Lister, Ibis, 1S80, p. 40.— 

 Cory, List. Bds. W. I. p. 9 (1S85).— Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 VIII*pp. 28, 30 (1S85). 



Sp. Char. — Entire plumage dull black; a tinge of olive is perceptible on 

 the underparts, and on the rump. 



Length (skin), 4.05; wing, 2.35; tail, 1.50; tarsus, .56. 

 Habitat. St. Vincent and Grenada. 



Mr. Ridgway expresses the opinion that this is perhaps a me- 

 lanotic variety of C. saccharina. 



Genus Ccereba Vieill. 

 Cccreha Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. 1S07. 



Coereba cyanea (Linn.). 



Certhia cyanea Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 188 (1766). 



Certhiu cyanogastra Lath. Ind. Orn. L P- 295 (1790)- 



Ccereba cyanea Vieill. Ois. Dos. pis. 41, 42, 43, etGal. Ois. pi. 176 (1820- 

 26).— Max. Beitr. Ill, p. 761 (1831).— Bp. Consp. I, p. 399 (1850).— 

 Thienem. J. f. O. 1857, p. 152.— BuRM. Syst. Ueb. Ill, p. 150.— ScL. 

 Cat. Am. Bds. p. 52 (1862).— Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 116 (1S69).— 

 ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 16 (1873).— Bd. Bwr. & 

 RiDGW. Hist. N. Am. Bds. I, p. 425 (1S74).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. 



p. 9 (188.S). 

 Ccereba cyanea D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 124 (1840). 

 — Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 131 (1850). 



*Dic(Eum aterrimum. Lesson Trait^ d'Orn. I, p. 303 (1831).— PUCH ERA N, Rev. 

 Zool. 1846, p. 134.— Salv. andOoDM. C. A. Ave. I, p. 251 ? 

 Certhiola atrata ScLATER, Cat. Bds. Brit. ' lus. Vol. XI, p. 47. 



