15. LOXIGILLA. 85 



the body and flanks ; thighs dull ashy ; abdomen pale ashy ; under 

 tail-coverts light ochreous rufous ; axillaries light olive ; under wing- 

 coverts white slightly tinged with buff ; edge of the wing pale rufous ; 

 quills dusky below, ashy along the inner web. Total length 4*2 

 inches, culmen 05, wing 2 # 3, tail 1*7, tarsus 075. 



The female from Martinique is much darker everywhere than the 

 female from S. Lucia, while those from Barbadoes are extremely 

 pale. 



Mr. Allen has separated the form from Santa Lucia as Loxigilla 

 sclateri, on account of the smallness of the rufous supraloral mark, 

 which is almost entirely absent in some examples, and on account 

 of the under tail-coverts being black. One specimen, collected by 

 Mr. Semper in the above-mentioned island, shows these characters ; 

 but another bird has the supraloral mark well pronounced, and has 

 also some rufous on the under tail-feathers, so that I do not think 

 there is any finality to the characters selected by Mr. Allen. This, 

 too, seems to be Mr. Cory's opinion. 



Hab. Lesser Antilles. 



3. Loxigilla propinqua. 



Loxigilla noctis, var. propinqua, Later. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 58 

 (1878). 



" Similar to L. noctis, but very much smaller. Length 4| inches 

 (instead of H), wing 2f (3), tail 2 (2|), tarsus | (f). The bill of 

 the Guiana bird is much smaller, the under mandible of a brownish 

 horn-colour, being black in the West-Indian bird ; the under tail- 

 coverts are of a paler rufous ; the rufous of the throat is more re- 

 stricted, and the superciliary line extending beyond the eye." 

 (Lawrence.) 



Hab. Essequibo River and Berbice, Guiana. 



4. Loxigilla anoxantha. 



Spermophila anoxantha, Gone, B. Jamaica, p. 247, pi. 62 (1847). 



Loxigilla anoxantha, Sol. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 74 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. 

 p. 102 (1862) ; March, Pr. Philad. Acad. 1863, p. 297 ; A. $ E. New- 

 ton, Haudb. Jamaica, 1881, p. 104 ; Sahin, CM. Strkkl. Coll. p. 219 

 (1882) ; Cory, List B. W. Indies, p. 12 (1885) ; id. Auk, iii. p. 203 

 (1886). 



