Cory oh the Birds of the V/est Indies. A -» 



Sp. Char. — Very close to C. fortoricensis, but separated from it by having 

 the back lighter slate color, and throat lighter gray. 



Measurements practically the same as those of C j>ortoriccnsis. 



Habitat. St. Thomas, and St. John, W. I. 



This is a somewhat doubtful species, and requires fiuthcr 

 Investigation. Specimens in my collection from St. John and 

 St. Thomas show the dark back of C. po7-iorice7zsls, while 

 Mhers show the gray tinge, representing sancti-tJw77ice. I hav'c 

 also a specimen of C. portoricensis which has the back nearly 

 as gray as any from St. Thomas. A specimen from St. Thomas 

 also agrees with one from Port Rico, in the color of the throat, 

 although other specimens have the throat lighter. It is possible 

 that some of the specimens in question may be incorrectly labelled, 

 as several of them were obtained by piu'chase. 



Certhiola bananivora (Gmel.). 



Motacilla bananivora Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. p. 951 (17SS). 



Certhiola— {':) Salle, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 233. 



Certhiola bananivora Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 95 (1865). 



— Bd. Bwr. & RiDGW. Hist. N. Am. Bds. I, p. 427 (1S74).— 



Cory, Bds. Haiti, and San Domingo, p. 41 (1SS5) ; ib. List Bds. 



W. I. p. 9 (18S5). 

 Cer/^/o/a c/««^ "Herz Von WuRTLEMB. Hartl. Naumannia, II, Heft. 



2, p. 56 (1852) (sine descr.)." — Finsch, Verhandl. Zool. Botan. 



Gesells. Wien, XXI, p. 771 (1871). — Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium 



Neotr. p. 17 (1873).— Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI, p. 151 



(1881). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Upper surface, including head, cheeks, wings, and tail, 

 dull black; a superciliary white stripe, extending from the base 

 of the upper mandible to the nape ; throat dark slaty color; imder- 

 parts bright yellow, becoming grayish olive upon the sides and 

 thighs; rump and carpus bright yellow; an edging of white upon the 

 basal portion of primaries on the outer webs, very narrow upon 

 the first, the whole nearly concealed by the coverts, forming a 

 narrow white wing-band ; bill and feet black; tail slightly tipped 

 with dull white on the outer feathers. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length, 4.40; wing, 2.40; tail, 1.60; tarsus, .60; bill, .50. 

 Habitat. San Domingo. 



Young birds of tliis species have the superciliary stripe yellow, 

 and the back more gray. Specimens in my collection show all 



