82 Cory o/i the Birds of (he West Indies. 



Genus Calliste Boie. 



Calliste BoiE, Isis, 1826, p. 978. 



Calliste versicolor Lawr. 



Calliste verncolor Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 153 (1878); ib. Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. I, pp. 190, 487 (1878).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 11 (1885); 



ib. Ibis, p. 472 (1886).— SCLATER, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XI. p. 113 (1886). 

 Calliste cucullata ScLATER & Salvin, Ibis, p. 357 (1879). — Cory, Auk, III, p. 



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Sp. Char. Male: — Top of the head deep chestnu); red; upper plumage 

 golden fawn color ; lores black; sides of the head and ear-coverts 

 dark green ; tail black, except the two middle-feathers, which are 

 bluish green, the rest of tail-feathers and quills black, edged with 

 bluish green ; upper tail-coverts bluish green ; underparts pale bluish 

 lilac when held in the light; feathers of the upper throat tipped 

 with gray; under tail-coverts cinnamon. 



Female: — Top of the head lighter chestnut than in the male; rest 

 of upper parts pale green ; underparts as in the male, but paler; 

 under tail-coverts, abdomen, and flanks pale cinnamon. 

 Length, 6; wang, 3.30; tail, 2.50 

 Habitat, St. Vincent. 



Genus Spindalis Jard. 

 Sfindalis "Jard & Selby. 111. Orn. U. S. 1S36." 



Spindalis zena (Linn.). 



Fringilla bahamensis Briss. Orn. Ill, p. 168. 



Fringilla zena LixN. Syst. Nat. I, p. 320 (1766). 



Tatiagra zena Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. iii (1859). 



Spindalis zena ^c-L. P. Z. S. 1S56, p. 321.— ScL. & Salv Nom. Avium 

 Neotr. p. 21 (1873). — Bouc. Cat. Avium, p. 244 (1S76). — Cory, Bds. 

 Bahama I. p. 92 (18S0) ; ib. List Bds. W. L p. 11 (1S85). 



•'Spindalis pretrei Gkp^y, Handl. Bds. II, p. 63 (1S70)." 



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Sp. Char. Male: — Above black ; rump, and a broad band over the nape 

 from side of the neck rufous brown, shading into an orange tinge; 

 a superciliary stripe, and a stripe on the sides of the throat from 

 lower mandible and chin white; cheeks black ; throat black, shad- 

 ing into brown upon the breast, with a yellow stripe passing from 

 the chin nearly to the brown of the breast; breast deep yellow, 



