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Pyrrhula aurantiicollis, Vieill. Gal. Ois. i. p. 62, pi. 55 (1825). 



Pyrrhula violacea, Gosse, B. Jamaica, p. 254 (1847). 



Pyrrhula mfobarbata, Halm Sf Kiister, Yog. aus Asien etc. Lief. vii. 



'Taf. 6 (1850). 

 Pyrrhulagra violacea, Bp. Consp. i. p. 493 (1850). 

 Loxigilla violacea, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 231, 1861, p. 74 ; id. 



Cat. Amer. B. p. 102 (1862) ; liidyw. Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mas. i. 



p. 250 (1878) ; A. 8,- E. Newt. Handb. Jamaica, p. 104 (1880) ; 



Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 219 (1882); Tristr. Ibis, 1884, p. 168; 



Cory, List B. W. Indies, p. 12 (1885) ; id. Auk, iii. p. 203 (1886). 

 Goniaphea violacea, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 104, no. 7652 (1870). 

 Sporophila violacea, Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 523 (1877). 

 Loxigilla violacea, 8. bahaniensis, Ridyw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. i. 



p. 250 (1878). 

 Loxigilla bahaniensis, Cory, B. Bahamas, p. 69 (1880) ; id. List B. 



W. Indies, p. 12 (1885) ; id. Auk, iii. p. 203 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above and below black, the quills and 

 tail-feathers a little browner on the inner webs ; over the eye a lino 

 of bright brick-red ; throat, vent, and under tail-coverts also brick- 

 red or deep chestnut ; axillaries white, tinged with sulphur-yellow ; 

 under wing-coverts white, except those round the edge of the wing, 

 which are black ; quills blackish below, ashy aloug the inner web. 

 Total length 6 - 4 inches, culmen 0-6, bill from gape 0-6, wing 3'2, 

 tail 2-75, tarsus - 8. 



Adult female. Different from the male. Entirely ashy brown 

 above, tinged with olive ; wing-coverts, quills, and tail-feathers 

 dusky brown, edged with the same colour as the back ; sides of face 

 and entire under surface of body olive-brown, ashy in the centre of 

 the abdomen ; a line of pale rufous above the eye ; centre of throat 

 also washed with pale rufous ; under tail-coverts also pale rufous ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts white tinged with olive-yellow. 

 Total length 6-2 inches, culmen O'oo, wing 2-7, tail 2- 4, tarsus - 75. 



Young males at first resemble the adult female and gradually 

 assume the black plumage. 



Mr. Eidgway has separated the Bahama bird as a distinct race, 

 characterized by its more lustrous black plumage and by the more 

 restricted throat-patch. In the Museum series I cannot detect the 

 first of these characters, and the second is not well-marked enough 

 to distinguish the two supposed races. Mr. Cory writes : — " The 

 Jamaica bird differs from the Bahama form in being somewhat 

 small ; the red of the throat is lighter, and the under wing-coverts 

 are grey, instead of dull white. It seems to represent a fairly good 

 geographical race." 



Bab. Bahamas, Jamaica, Haiti, and San Domingo. 



a. tS imm. sk. Panama (McLeannan). Salvin-Godrrian Coll. 



b. <-? ad. sk. S. Domingo. Sclater Coll. 



c. S ad. st. Jamaica. Purchased. 



d. Juv. sk. Jamaica. Sclater Coll. 



e. $ ad. sk. St. Ann's, Jamaica, Aug. 26. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 /. S ad. ; g. Juv. Spanishtown, Jamaica ( W. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



sk. T. March; Sm. no. 38060). 



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