144 FRIN&ILLID^. 



Key to the Species. 



a. \yith yellow on the throat. 



a'. A yellow eyebrow and a yellow collar across 



the lower throat ; lores and chin black canora, p. 144. 



b'. A yellow eyebrow as well as a loral spot and 

 the chin ; lower throat black. 

 a". Black on the throat restricted to the fore 

 neck, and never extending on the face as 



far as the region below the eye lepida, p. 145. 



b". Black on the throat extending on to the 

 breast and nearly to the abdomen, on the 

 side of the face extending over the region 

 of the eye and often over the ear-coverts. . pusilla, p. 147. 



b. With no yellow on the throat. 



c'. With the black of the breast extending down 

 to the vent ; under tail-coverts blackish, edged 

 with dull white bicolor, p. 140. 



d'. With the black not extending further than the 

 breast; under tail-coverts yellowish white, 

 with dusky centres marchii, p. 150. 



e'. Underparts dull sooty grey; the under tail- 

 coverts edged with ashy fulvous fidiyinosa, p. 151. 



1. Phonipara canora. 



Brown-cheeked Grosbeak, Brown, 111. Zool. p. 56, pi. xxiv. fig. 1 



(1776) ; Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 155 (1783). 

 Loxia canora, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 858 (1788). 

 Phonipara canora, Bp. Consp. i. p. 494 (1850) ; 8cl. Sf Salo. Nomencl. 



Av. Neotr. p. 29 (1878) ; Baird, Brewer, # Ridyway, Hist. N.Amer. 



B. ii. p. 93 (1874). 

 Euetheia canora, B reiver, Pmc. Bod. Soc. vii. p. 807 (1860) ; Gundl. 



Orn. Cuba, p. 92 (1878) ; Cory, Lid B. Wed Indies, p. 12 (1885) ; 



id. Auk, iii. p. 209 (1886). 

 Passerina canora, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 98, no. 7453 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above yellowish green, a little brighter 

 round the hind neck ; wing- coverts like the back ; bastard- wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills dusky, externally yellowish green, brighter 

 yellow on the primaries ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers 

 dusky, external!) olive-yellow ; crown of head slaty grey, shading off 

 into vellowish green on the occiput and nape ; the base of the forehead, 

 lores, feathers round the eye, ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat black, 

 with a narrow superciliary streak of golden yellow ; sides of neck 

 and a collar across the lower throat golden yellow ; fore neck black ; 

 chest and remainder of under surface slaty grey, the breast more 

 ashy in the centre, and the abdomen whiter ; sides of body and flanks 

 slaty grey ; thighs slaty grey ; under tail-coverts yellowish white, 

 with ashy bases to the feathers ; under wing-coverts white, washed 

 with olive-yellow, the edge of the wing olive-yellow : axillaries 

 ashy, washed with olive-yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy whitish 



