Bryant.] 92 [Decembers, 



Tanagra (Euphonia). 



* f Tanagra musica. 



(Shizampelis.) 



* + Tanagra dominicensis. Viellot has evidently confounded 

 two birds in his description of Tanagra multicolor. § None of the 

 varieties known to me have the baclc black, excejat zena, and his 

 description is, I think, intended for that bird, and consequently mul- 

 ticolor must be considered as a synonym of zena. The four species 

 or varieties of this subgenus present two patterns of coloration of the 

 nuchal collar ; in one which comprises zena and portoricensis this is 

 well defined posteriorly as well as anteriorly ; in the other, containing 

 prelrci and dominicensis, the collar, though sharply defined by the 

 black of the head, is shaded gradually into the olive of the back. 

 There is a gradual gradation of the color of this collar, from the rich 

 dark chesnut of zena through the bright ferruginous of pretrei and 

 dark orano-e of portoricensis into the brilliant yellow of dominicensis. 

 Three of the four have the rump and upjier tail coverts of nearly the 

 same color as the head ; portoricensis has them of the same color as the 

 back. 



Arremon (Phoenicophilus). 



* f Arremon palmarum. 



Dulus. 



* t Dulus dominicus. 



Turdus (Mimociehla). 



* I Turdus ardosiaceus Viell. I have taken it for granted 

 that the bird called Turdus pluinbeus by Mr. Salle,_is the same as the 

 present one, though this is not absolutely certain, as there are two 

 Thrushes of this subgenus in Cuba. On comparing the series from 

 Port au Prince with that from Porto Rico, appreciable, though slight, 

 differences can be detected, the bill and tarsi are brick red, instead 

 of dull reddish-orange ; the white tips of the tail feathers terminate ob- 

 liquely toward the base, instead of being generally transverse ; the 

 bill is absolutely as well as relatively smaller; the wing is longer, the 

 tail shorter ; in neither of the two series is there any appearance of a 

 division of the external face of the tai-sus. Their habits are strictly 

 those of a thrush, and why they are put with the mocking birds I can 



§ "Ce Tauagra que j'ai trouve clans les bois de St. Dominique et que j'ai pris en 

 mer dans le canal de Bahama." "Le male a le manteau d'un beau noir." Viellot 

 Gallerie des Oiseaux. Vol. I. p. 101. 



