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Starnoenas cyanocephala (Linn.). 



Coltimha cya7iocephala Linn. Sjst. Nat. I, p. 2S2 (1766). — D'Okb. in La 

 Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 174 (1840). 



Slarncenas cyanocephala GosSE, Bds. Jam. p. 324 (1S47). — Cab. J. f. O. 

 1856, p. 108 (Cuba).— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 

 307 (1S60) (Cuba). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 204 (Jamaica). — 

 GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 299 (1865) ; tb. J. f. O. 1874, 

 p. 291 (Cuba).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 24 (1885). 



Sp. Char. — Top of the head bright blue; a narrow line of black extend- 

 ing through the eye, meeting at the nape, immediately joining a 

 band of white which passes under the eye from the lower mandible 

 and chin ; throat glossy black, narrowly banded with white on the 

 last black feathers of the lower throat, forming a white edging to 

 the black throat; the feathers on the sides of the neck narrowly 

 tipped with blue; upper parts purplish brown on the back, shading 

 into olive brown on the lower back and rump ; wings and tail brown ; 

 breast tinged with purple, shading into rufous brown on the belly; 

 under .surface of tail-feathers dark brown, almost black; basal por- 

 tion of bill and feet deep red. 



Length, 11; wing, 6; tail, 4; tarsus, 1.25; bill, .50. 



Habitat. Cuba, 



This species 

 is common in 

 parts of the 

 interior. On 

 several occa- 

 sions I have 

 seen the liv- 

 ing birds of- 

 fered for sale 

 in the markets 

 of Havana. 

 Albrecht re- 

 cords it from 

 Jamaica. 



