21. RHAMPH0CCELU3. 169 



A very distinct species, which may be known from S. zena by its 

 dark olive back, and from S. pretrii by its dark chestnut nape and 

 rump, besides other characters. 



a. c? ad. sk. Cozumel Island, Yucatan Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Devis), (Type oi Spindalis exsid.) 



b-e. ^ ad. sk. ; Cozumel Island, Yucatan Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 /-/. 5 '^^- s^- (^- F. Gaumer). 



6. Spindalis zena. 



Fiingilla bahamensis, Briss. Oni. iii. 1G8 ; Cateshy, Car. i. pi. 42. 

 Fringilla zena, Linn. S. N. i. 320. 



Tanagra zena, Bryant, Proc. Bod. Sue. N. H. vii. p. Ill (18o9). 

 Spindalis zena, Bp. Consp. i. p. 240 ; Pe/zelii, Ibis, 1873, p. 29 ; Cor^/, 

 B. of Bahamas, p. 92, cum tab. 



Above black ; nape-band and rump chestnut ; long superciliaries, 

 broad margins of wing-coverts and secondaries, and narrow edgings 

 to primaries white ; tail black, with a large portion of the terminal 

 halves of the outer remiges and the tips of the others white ; chin 

 and broad mystacal stripe on each side white ; centre of throat 

 yellow, bordered on each side by large black patches which nearly 

 meet below ; breast and upper belly j^ellow, passing into chestnut on 

 the upper part below the yellow throat ; lower belly, crissum, and 

 under wing-coverts white ; flanks cinereous ; bill plumbeous, paler 

 below ; feet blackish : whole length 5-8 inches, wing 2-9, tail 2-4. 

 Female. Above olivaceous grey, wings and tail brownish black with 

 white edgings : beneath paler; lower belly, crissum, aud under wing- 

 coverts white. 



Hah. Eahama Islands. 



The black back at once distingiiishes this species from its five 

 congeners. 



a,b. (5 2 ad. sk. Bahamas {Bryant). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c,d. J 2 ad. sk. Bahamas {Bryant). Sclater Coll. 



«,/• 6 2 ad. sk. Bahamas (Bryant). Mrs. Brvant [P.]. 



g. S ad. sk. Nassau, New Providence, Sah in-Godman Coll. 



Bahamas (Cory). 



21. RHAMPHOCGELUS. Type. 



Rampliocelus (corr. Ilhamphocoelus*), i3ie«?«. Tany.et Ma7i. 



sub tabb. 28, 29 (1805) R. brasilius. 



Eamphopis, Vieill. Analyse, p. 32 (1816) li. jacapa. 



Jacapa, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 178 R. jacapa. 



The lihamphocceli form a group of about 12 species, readily known 

 by the brilliant scarlet- or yellow-and-black plumage of the males, 

 and by the peculiar enlargement and coloration of the naked base of 



* I pre.sume that the etymology of this term is pri^^os and (coiXos, from the 

 widening out of the base of the lower mandible. 



