16. NEORHTNCHUS. 87 



5. Loxigilla portoricensis. 



Loxia portoricensis, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 411 (1809). 



Pyrrhula aurantiicolis, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Mist. Nat. iv. p. 300 (1816). 



Pitylus portoricensis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 362 (1848). 



Pyrrliulagra portoricensis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 493 (1850). 



Loxia (Pyrrliulagra) portoricensis, Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 



Hist. x. p. 254 (1866). 

 Sporophila portoricensis, Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 522 (1877). 

 Loxigilla portoricensis, Cory, B. W. Indies, p. 12 (1885) ; id. Auk, 



iii. p. 205 (1886). 



Adult male. " A narrow line of black on the forehead ; top of the 

 head chestnut rufous, separated at the nape by the black of the back, 

 the black colour dividing it like a ridge ; throat and under tail- 

 coverts chestnut rufous, rest of plumage black ; under wing-coverts 

 dull white ; bill and feet black." {Cory.) 



" Female. Similar to the male, possibly somewhat duller in colora- 

 tion." (Cory.) 



" Length of skin 7"5 inches, wing 3*5, tail 3-0, tarsus - 95." 

 (Cory.) 



Hob. Porto Rico. 



6. Loxigilla grandis. 



Loxigilla portoricensis, var. grandis, Later. Proc. XI. S. Nat. Mus. 



vol. iv. p. 204 (1881). 

 Loxigilla portoricensis grandis, Cory, List B. W. Indies, p. 12 (1885) ; 



id. Auk, iii. p. 206 (1886). 



Male. Larger than Loxigilla portoricensis, and having the rufous- 

 chestnut colouring darker. Length 8 inches, wing 4*25, tail 3 - 25, 

 tarsus 1. 



Hub. Island of St. Christopher. 



16. NE0RHYNCHUS*. 



Type. 

 Callirhynchus, Bp. C. R. xlii. p. 822 (1856, nee Less.) .... 

 Neorhynchus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 147 [nom. emend.) . . N. nasesus. 



This genus is closely allied to Spermophila, and is in fact little 

 more than a thick-billed form of that large genus. 



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Head of Neorhynchus nasesus, $ . 

 Range. Peru and Ecuador. 



* Two other species which I have not succeeded in identifying are given by 

 Bonaparte, and by Gray in the ' Hand-list,' as follows : — 



N. rufescens ( V.) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 107, no. 7622 (1870). 

 N. peruvianus (Less.) ; Gray, t. c. p. 107, no. 7623 (1870). 



