THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF THE 



BOSTON ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 

 Vol. II. October, 1883. No. 4. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF 

 BIRDS FROM SANTO DOMINGO. 



By CharJe.^ B. Cory. 



Phc3enicophilus frugivorus. 



Male : Top of the head brown ; shading into ash}' on the neck, back 

 of the eye ; rest of the upper parts, including back and upper surface 

 of wings and tail brownish-olive ; throat white ; breast white, becom- 

 ing ash}' upon the side ; flanks brownish-olive, the olive mixing with 

 white upon the crissum : primaries and secondaries olive-brown, the 

 inner web, edged with very pale brown ; a patch of bright yellow under 

 the base of the wing, extending upon the carpus ; eye encircled 

 by a very narrow line of bright yellow, and a spot of yellow in front 

 of the eye at the base of the mandil)le ; upper mandible dark brown ; 

 lower mandil)le yellowish-brown darkest at the base. 



Length, 8; wing, 3.50; tail, 3.50; tarsus, 1 ; bill, .70, 



The female is somewhat smaller, but otherwise resembles 

 the male. 



I have placed the present species in the genus Phoenico- 

 2)liUus^ provisionally, as there are several points of differ- 

 ence which re sufficient, in my opinion, to constitute a 



