Appendix to Birds of the West Indies. 280 



Calliste cucullata (Swain.). 



Aglaia cucullata " SWAINSON, Orn. Dr. pi. 7." 



Calliste cucullata Gray, Gen. B. II, p. 366; Sclater, Contr. Orn. p. 63 (1851); 



?V/. Syn. Av. Tan. p. 79; ^V/. Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. p. 113 (1886); Wells, 



List Bds. Grenad. p. 3 (1886). 

 Calliste versicolor Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vol. IX, p. 613. 



Sp. Char. — Top of the head dark chestnut; back distinctly green, with golden 

 reflections; ear-coverts black; underparts ochraceous, showing a faint 

 bluish tinge; cressum tinged with rufous brown; under wing-coverts white. 

 Length, 5.25; wing, 2.30; tail, 2.10; tarsus, .60; bill, .35. 



Habitat. Grenada. 



It has been supposed that Swainson's type of this species came 

 from Venezuela; but it is probable that it is restricted to the island 

 of Grenada, and does not occur at all on the continent. 



Spindalis salvini Cory. 



Spindalis salvini Cory, Auk, III, pp. 499, 501 (1886). 



Sp. Char. — Top of the head and cheeks black; a superciliary and malar stripe 

 of white; a patch of yellowish orange on the upper throat, separated from 

 the white malar stripe by a line of black which reaches the breast; chin 

 dull white; lower throat and breast chestnut; back dark olive, separated 

 from the black of the head by a chestnut collar; lower back yellowish; a 

 patch of chestnut on the carpus; rump brownish orange; belly and under 

 tail-coverts dull white; tail black, the two outer feathers heavily marked 

 with white, the third feather tipped with white on the inner web, the two 

 central feathers narrowly edged with white on the inner webs; bill horn 

 color; feet slate brown. General appearance of Spindalis pretrii, but 

 having the bill heavier and throat marking unlike those of that species, be- 

 sides other minor differences. 



Length, 5.50; wing, 3.35; tail, 2.75; tarsus, .70; bill, ,50. 



Habitat. Grand Cayman. 



Spindalis zena townsendi Ridgw, 



spindalis zena toivttsendi RiDGW. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. X, p. 3 (1887). 



Described as being " similar to S. zena, but with the back either 

 entirely olive or much mixed with this color, instead of being uni- 

 form deep black." 



Habitat. Abaco I,, Bahamas. 



The material before me tends to show that the same variation in 

 coloration occurs at times in S. zena from New Providence. 



