15. GEANATELLUS. 369 



coverts ; throat and breast lemon-yellow ; the abdomen -whiter, 

 slightly washed with yellow ; sides of lower breast, flanks, and 

 thighs ashy grey, as also the under tail-coverts ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts white, the edge of the wing tinged with yellow ; 

 quills dusky below, white along the edge of the inner web : " upper 

 mandible and terminal half of the lower one black, basal half of the 

 latter lead-coloured ; iris dark hazel ; legs and feet plumbeous " 

 (^Gundlach). Total length 4'S inches, culmen 0"55, wing 2-25, 

 tail 2'05, tarsus 0-7. 



Ifab. Eastern portion of the island of Cuba. 



a. S ad. sk. Cuba. Sclater Collection. 



b. S ad. sk. Monte Verde, Cuba(C. Wright), Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. $ ad. sk. Cuba {Mm. Latvr.), Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



15. GEANATELLUS. 



Type. 

 Granatellus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 312 (1850, ex DuBus MSS.). G. venustus. 



I 



Head of Granatcllus sallcsi. 



Ranrje. Mexico and the Tres-Marias Islands ; Guatemala ; Guiana 

 and Upper Amazonia. 



Key to the Species. 

 a. Throat white. 



a'. With a black pectoral coUar. 



a". Lateral tail-feathers tipped with white, top of 



head like the back ; forehead black venustus, p. 3G9. 



b". No white on the tail ; top of head black .... pekelni, p. 370. 

 b'. With no black pectoral collar ; outer tail-feathers 



nearly entirely white francescee, p. 370. 



Throat grey sallcei, p. 371. 



1. Granatellus venustus. 



GranateUus venustus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 312 (ex Dubus MSS. et Icon. 



ined. Esq. Oni. ) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 18U4, p. 607, pi. 37. fig. 2 ; Baird, 



Revieiu Amer. B. p. 231 (1865) ; Scl. ^ Salv. Nomeud. Av. Neotr. 



p. 11 (1873); Lawr. Mem. Bust. Soc. K If. ii. p. 270 (1874); 



Salv. ^ Godin. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 160 (1881). 

 Icteria venustus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 384, no. 5821 (1869). 



Adult male. Above bluish slate-colour ; forehead, sides of head 

 and neck, including edge of vertex and a narrow pectoral collar, 

 continuous black ; a broad triangular patch of white behind the eye 

 in the black of the neck ; median portion of underparts, from the 



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