2Qd. Appendix to Birds of the West Indies. 



B.brunncicapillus. Wing, 2.50; tail, 2.50; tarsus, .50; bill, .50." (Lawr. 

 orig. descr. 1. c.) 



Habitat. Grenada. 



Supposed to differ from B. brunneicapillus in being yellow on the 

 abdomen instead of fulvous, and the tail not being tipped with 

 fulvous. 



Blacicus martinicensis Cory. 



Blacicus martinicensis Cory, Auk, p. 96 (1886). 



Sp. Char. — Top of the head smoky black; back and upper tail-coverts dark 

 olive; throat ashy, becoming tinged with tawny brown on the breast; belly 

 dull rufous brown, extending upon the under tail-coverts; tail dark brown; 

 upper mandible black; under mandible pale yellow; feet dark. 

 Length, 4.80; wing, 2.60; tail, 2.50; tarsus, .60; bill, .50. 



Habitat. Martinique. 



Chsetura cinereiventris Scl. 



" Cypselus acutus Max. Beitr. Ill, p. 351 C1831) (nee. Auct.")- 

 Acanthylis spinicauda BuRM. Syst. Ueb. II, p. 366. 



ChcEtura cinereiventris Scl. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 283 (1862); ib. P. Z. S. (1863), 

 p. loi; ib. (1865), p. 612. — Wells, List Bds, Grenada, p. 4 (1886). 



Sp. Char. — Top of the head and back greenish black; rump gray; the shafts of 

 the feathers dark, becoming pale at the tips; tail-feathers greenish black; 

 spines extending about one quarter of an inch beyond the feathers; throat 

 whitish, shading into gray on the breast and belly, faintly tinged with brown 

 near the vent; under tail-coverts dull greenish black; quills dark brown. 

 Length, 4.20; wing, 4.30 ; tail, 1.50 ; tarsus, .40. 



Grenada. 



The specimen before me does not perfectly agree with another, 

 labelled C. cinereiventris^ from South America; but in the absence 

 of more material for comparison, I refer it, provisionally, to that 

 species, A bird in the Smithsonian collection, No. 84,841, is la- 

 belled C. cinereiventris. It was taken in Grenada in July, 1881, by 

 Mr. J. G. W 



Chsetura brachyura (Jard.). 



Acanthylis brachyura " Jardine, Am. N. H. ser. I, XVIII, p. 120 (1846)." 

 Chcetura poliuca CoRY, Ibis, p. 473 (1886), Lawr. 



Sp. Char. 5 . — Top of the head, back and wings black, showing a greenish gloss 

 when held in the light; rump and upper tail-coverts ash gray, the tail- 



