84 FRINGILLID^S. 



h. d ad. sk. Moneague, Jamaica, Feb. 20, Bryant Coll. 



1865. 

 i. tf ad. sk. Moneague, Feb. 1865 (Dr. Sclater Coll. 



H. Bryant), 

 k. 3 ad. ; I, m. 2 Bahamas (Blake). Sclater Coll. 



imm. sk. 

 n. Jjuv.sk. Bahamas. Bryant Coll. 



o. <$ ad. sk. Bahamas (Dr. H. Bryant ; Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sm. no. 11944). 



2. Loxigilla noctis. 



The Black Sparrow, Sloane, Nat. Hist. Jamaica, ii. p. 311 (1725). 



Le Pere noir, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 118, pi. -vii. fig. 1 (1760). 



Fringilla noctis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 320 (1766). 



? Le Pere noir de la Martinique, Daubent. PI. Enl. iv. pi. 201. fig. 1. 



Bufous-chinned Finch, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 267 (1783). 



FriDgilla rufobarbata, Jaeq. Beitr. p. 11 (1784). 



Fringilla martinicensis, Om. Syst. Nat. i. p. 909 (1788). 



Loxia haitii, Ricord, Rev. Zool. 1838, p. 167. 



Spermophila haitii, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 386 (1844). 



Spermophila noctis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 386 (1844) ; Gosse, B. 



Jamaica, p. 247, pi. 62 (1847). 

 Pyrrhula robinsonii, Gosse, B. Jamaica, p. 259 (1847). 

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

 Loxigilla noctis, Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 102 (1862) ; E. C. Taylor, 



Ibis, 1864, p. 167; Scl. P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 267, 270; Semper, 



P. Z. S. 1872, p. 648 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 175 ; Laivr. Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mm. i. pp. 57, 191, 233, 239, 269, 355, 457, 487 (1878-79); 



Scl. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 764; Lister, Ibis, 1880, p. 40; Cory, B. 



Bahamas, p. 87 (1880) ; Grisdale, Ibis, 1882, pp. 486, 487 ; Cory, 



List B. West Indies, p. 12 (1885) ; id. Auk, iii. p. 204 (1886). 

 Goniaphea noctis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 104, no. 7561 (1870). 

 Sporophila noctis, Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 520 (1877). 

 Loxigilla noctis sclateri, Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v. p. 166 



(1880) ; Cory, List B. West Indies, p. 12 (1885) ; id. Auk, iii. 



p. 204 (1886). 



Adult male. Entirely black both above and below, including 

 the wings and tail ; a small supraloral spot of dull brick-red ; throat 

 bright brick-red ; under tail-coverts black ; axillaries black ; under 

 wing-coverts white except those near the edge of the wing, which 

 are black : quills blackish below, ashy along the edge of the inner 

 web : " bill and legs black " (Cory). Total length 5 inches, culmen 

 0*5, wing 2-9, tail 2, tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. Different from the male. Above olivaceous brown, 

 rather more reddish on the upper tail-coverts, and slightly tinged 

 with reddish on the forehead ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; 

 median and greater wing-coverts dusky brown, edged with pale 

 rufous ; quills dusky brown, the primaries margined with olive, the 

 inner secondaries with pale rufous like the greater coverts; tail- 

 feathers dusky brown, edged with pale reddish brown ; lores reddish 

 buff ; ear-coverts olive-brown ; chin ashy whitish ; cheeks, sides of 

 neck, throat, and breast ashy grey, a little browner on the sides of 



