^5 Cory oh the Birds of the West Indies. 



Sp. Char. — Superciliary stripe lacking, or extremely indistinct in front 

 of the eye ; frontal region dull grayish black ; back smoky black, 

 sometimes showing a slight olive tinge when held in the light; 

 throat dark slate color; lower part of rump showing olive green; 

 a delicate penciling of white on the outer webs of primaries. 

 Length (skin), 4.S5; wing, 2.50; tail, 1.60; tarsus, .65. 



Habitat. Dominica^ Antigua, Barbuda, Nevis, St. Eusta- 

 tius, Guadeloupe, and Saba. 



C. sundevalli Ridgw. is probably a phase of plumage of this 

 species, the yellow superciliary stripe changing with age, as in 

 C bananivora. 



Certhiola barbadensis Baird. 



Certhiola martinicana ScL. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 174. 



Certhiola barbadensis Baird, Am. Nat. VII, p. 612 (1873). — Bb. Bwr. & 

 Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds. I, p. 428 (1874).— Cory, List Bds. W. L 

 p. 9 (1885).— Ridgw. ?•"• U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII, pp. 28, 30 (18S6). 



Sp. Char. — "Upper part of throat slate black, bordered laterally by a gray 

 rictal patch, and below by a yellowish white patch ; separating the 

 black from the 3'ellow of the jugulum. Upper parts as in C. domin- 

 icana, but superciliary stripe broadest and most sharply defined an- 

 teriorly." (Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII, p. 28 (i8'85.) 

 Length, 3.75; wing, 2.40; tail, 1.75. 

 Habitat. Barbadoes. 



Certhiola martinicana Reich. 



Certhia martinicana s. saccharivora Briss. Orn. Ill, p. 611 (1S60). 

 Certhia flaveola var. p. Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 1S7 (1766). — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. I, p. 479(1788). 

 Certhiola martinicana Reich. Handb. I, p. 252 (1853). — Cassin, Pr. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1S64, p. 271.— Cab. J. f. O. 1865, p. 412.— 



Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 120 (1869). — Finsch, Verhandl. Zool. 



Botan. Gesells. Wien, XXI, p. 788 (1871).— Scl. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 



269. — ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 17 (1S73). — Bd. Bwn. 



& Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds. I, p. 428 (1S74).— Lawr. Pr. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. I, p. 487 (1878).— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, 



p. 166 (1880).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 9 (1885).— Ridgw. Pr. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. VIII, pp. 28-30(1885). 

 Certhiola albigula Bp. Compt. Rend. 1854, P- 259- — Tayor, Ibis, 1864, p. 



167. — Newton, Zool. Record, 186-1, p. 76. 



Sp. Char. — Sides of the throat grayish black; a patch of white on the 

 middle of the throat to bi-east; underparts bright yellow, a tinge cf 



