168 TANAGRID^. 



4. Spindalis pretrii. 



Tanagra zena, d'Orb. La Sayra's Cuba, Zool. p. 74, t. xi. 



Tanagi-a pretrei, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 103 ; id. Cent. Zool. p. 122, 



t. xlv. ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 3U5. 

 Spindalis pretrei, Bp. Consp. i. p. 240 ; Gundl. J.f. 0. 1855, p. 476, 



1861, p. 328, J862, p. 189, 1872, p. 419; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. 



p. 21 ; Breicer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. Ii. vii. p. 307. 

 Spindalis zena, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 231 ; id. Syn. Av. Tan. p. 57- 

 Tanagra (Spindalis) pretrei, Gimdl. J.f. O. 1871, pp. 266, 275. 



Above olive, nape and rump orange ; head black, with long white 

 supcrciliaries : wings black, with broad white margins to wing- 

 coverts and secondaries, and a white speculum on the primaries ; 

 spot on bend of the wing chestnut ; tail black, the three outer rec- 

 trices with a large ]mrt of the terminal halves white, but tipped 

 with black : below reddish orange ; chin and broad mystacal stripe 

 on each side white ; middle of throat yellow, bordered on each side 

 by a distinct black line ; flanks greyish ; lower belly, crissum, and 

 under wing-coverts white ; bill plumbeous ; feet blackish : whole 

 length o-oinches, wing 2-9, tail 2-3. Female. Above dirty olive ; 

 head blackish, with white superciliaries ; wings black, edged with 

 white ; tail black, with a large part of the terminal halves of the 

 outer rectrices white : below white, breast sufl'used with olivaceous ; 

 flanks greyish. 



Uah. Cuba. 



This fine species is nearest to S. zena, but distinguishable at once 

 by its olive back. 



«, h. S ad. ; c, San Cristobal, Cuba {G. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



' d. 5 ad. sk. F. Gaumer). 



e. (S ad. sk. Cuba. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/. cJ ad. sk. Cuba. Sclater Coll. 



5. Spindalis benedicti. 



Spindalis benedicti, Rid(jic. Pr. Biol. Soc. Washington, iii. (March 



1875). 

 Spindahs exsul, Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 180, pi. v. (Aprd 1875). 



Above dark olive ; nape and rump dark chestnut ; head black 

 with long white superciliaries ; wings black, wing-coverts and 

 secondaries margiuedwith white ; a white speculum on the primaries 

 and a dark chestnut spot on the bend of the wing ; tail black, large 

 portion of the terminal halves of the three outer rectrices white ; 

 chin and broad mystacal stripe white ; middle of throat yellow, 

 bordered on each side by a black j)atch ; breast chestnut, upper part 

 of belly yellow ; flanks cinereous ; middle of lower part of belly, 

 crissum, and under wing-coverts white ; bill dark plumbeous ; feet 

 blackish : whole length 6 inches, wing 3-4, tail 2-6. Female. Above 

 cinereous olive : wings and tail blackish, wing-coverts margined 

 with whitish ; speculum white ; beneath much paler, middle of the 

 bellv whitish. 



II ah. Cozumel I., coast of Yucatan. 



