3. PHAIXOPIILA. 



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under tail-coverts washed with olive, the latter broadly centred with 

 dusky brown ; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale tawny buff, 

 with narrow sbat't-Unes of dark brown : quills dusky, ashy fulvous 

 along the inner web : " biU and iris black" {I'ounglove ; t£ste Baird). 

 Total length 7*8 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3*6, tail 3-15, tarsus O'So. 

 Hab. S. Domingo. 



Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 

 Sclater Collection. 

 Sclater Collection. 



2. Dulus nuchalis. 



Dulus nuchalis, Sioains. An. in Menag. p. 345 (1837) ; Strickl. 

 Contr. Oni. 18.51, p. 104; Baird, Revieiv Ainer. B. p. 403 (1865) ; 

 Scl. ^- Salv. Kornencl. Av. Neotr. p. 13 (1873). 



Adult (type of species). With a white patch on the nape (appa- 

 rently a varietal mark); otherwise only differs from D. dorninicus in 

 being slightly smaller. Total length 7"2 inches, culmen O'oo, wing 

 3"2, tail 2-9.5, tarsus 0-75. (Jlus. Cantahr.) 



Hah. Said to be from Brazil, but the locality is doubtless erroneous. 

 It is probably from one of the Antilles. 



Ohs. The perceptibly smaller dimensions render it probable that 

 the present species is really different from Dulus dominiciis, and the 

 white mark on the nape may also prove to be a character. It looks, 

 however, as if the latter were an accidental peculiarity, as is often 

 the case with Sparrows, Blackbirds, &c. in England and elsewhere. 



3. PHAINOPTILA. 



Phainoptila, Salv. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 367 



Type. 

 P. melanoxantha. 



Bill of Phainoptila melanoxantha, to show position of nasal aperture 

 and form of chin-angle. 



Range. Costa Rica. 



1. Phainoptila melanoxantha. 



Phainoptila melanoxantha, Salv. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 367 ; id. in Rowley's 

 Orn. Misc. p. 430, pi. 70 (1877) ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878. p. 53 ; Salv. 

 ^- Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 221, pi. xiv. (1883). 



Adxdt male. General colour above glossy black, with a band of 

 olive-yellow across the rump ; wing-coverts entirely black ; quills 

 and tail-feathers black ; head, entire sides of face, sides of neck, and 

 throat black as far as the centre; the lower thi'oat dark olive- 



