gg fkingiixim:. 



Loxipasser anoxantha, Bryant, Proc. Bod. Soc. N. H. x. p. 254 



Gonfaphea anoxantha, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 104 no 7563 (1870). 

 Sporophila anoxantha, Giebel, Thes. Orn. in. p. 518 (1ft//). 



Adult male. General colour above yellowish green, glossed with 

 golden yeUow on the mantle, upper back, and upper tail-coverts ; 

 lesser wing-coverts bright golden yellow, forming a large shoulder- 

 patch ; median and greater coverts dusky, washed externally with 

 yellowish green; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and qui Is dusky, 

 edo-ed with yellowish green, the secondaries more broadly ; tail- 

 feathers dusky, externally washed with yellowish green; crown ot 

 head and nape sooty black, forming a hood ; lores feathers round 

 the eye ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, and breast sooty black, descend- 

 in- on to the abdomen, which is ashy grey, tinged with olive ; sides 

 of "body and flanks ashy, washed with yellowish green ; thighs dull 

 yellowish green ; under tail-coverts chestnut ; under wing-coverts 

 yellow ; axiUaries yellowish-green like the sides of the body ; quills 

 below dusky, whitish along their inner edge: ''biU .black; feet 

 blackish flesh-colour; iris hazel" (P. H. Gosse). Total length 

 4-6 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2-5, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-6. _ 



Adult female. Wants the black head of the male and otherwise 

 differs 'General colour above yellowish green, with a golden gloss 

 on the mantle ; wings and tail as in the male ; crown of head green 

 like the back, slightly more dusky ; sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks 

 throat, and under surface of body dull ashy grey slightly washed 

 with olive, the abdomen paler ; sides of body and flanks like me 

 breast; under tail-coverts pale rufous, the longer ones lulvescent ; 

 under wing-coverts and axiUaries yellow, whitish at the base ; quills 

 below dusky, ashy whitish along the inner edge. Total lengtn 4 

 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-3, tail 1-65, tarsus 0-6. 



The extent of the black on the abdomen varies with individuals, 

 as it sometimes extends down to the vent, while in other specimens 

 the abdomen is ashy olive, with a blackish shade down the centre ot 

 the body. In the latter specimens the black of the head is some- 

 what washed with olive, and the back is uniform yellowish green, 

 without any golden gloss, and thus more resembling the female. 

 Such specimens are probably young males in their first lull plumage, 

 which doubtless grows blacker with age. 

 Hab. Jamaica. 



a,b.d2 ad. sk. Jamaica. P. H. Gosse Esq. [C ]. 

 > ° + (Types of species.) 



c rf ad sk Jamaica. P- H." Gosse, Es<^ [C.]. 



d. 6 ad. sk. Jamaica (Gosse). Salvni-Godnian Co . 



e 2 ad sk Jamaica ( W. Osbwn). Salvin-Godman Co 1. 



f 5 ad sk St. Anne's, Jamaica, March Salvin-Godman Ooll. 



f. (5 ad. sk 



ad. sis 

 ! ad. sk 

 2 juv. sk 



1866 (TV. March), 

 a. J ad. sk. Jamaica. Sclater Coll. 



h 2 ad sk; Jamaica ( TV. March). Sclater Coll. 



