140 FSINGILLID.E. 



latter colour ; crown of head like the back, with a line of dusky 

 black across the forehead, extending above the eye ; lores and a 

 narrow eyebrow deep orange-yellow, as well as the eyelid ; feathers 

 in front of and below the eye dusky blackish, as also the cheeks ; 

 ear-coverts olive-green like the crown ; upper throat orange-yellow, 

 lower throat blackish ; fore neck and chest ashy olive ; the centre 

 of the breast and abdomen yellowish buff, whiter towards the vent ; 

 sides of body and flanks ashy olive ; thighs whitish ; under tail- 

 coverts pale yellow with dusky centres ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries pale olive-yellow, brighter along the edge of the wing ; 

 quills below dusk}', ashy along the inner edge : " bill horny black : 

 feet purplish ; iris dark hazel " (P. If. Gosse). Total length 4 inches, 

 culmen 04, wing 2-05, tail 1*5, tarsus 06. 



Adult female. Different from the male, and not so brightly 

 coloured. Above entirely olive-green ; wing-coverts, quills, and 

 tail-feathers dusky, washed externally with the same colour as the 

 back, the edges of the primaries brighter yellow : lores and sides of 

 face like the back ; the upper and under margin of the eyelid 

 whitish, and surmounted by a pale yellowish eyebrow running from 

 the base of the bill ; chin pale yellow ; under surface of body light 

 ashy, the lower throat mottled with black bases to the feathers ; 

 centre of breast and abdomen ashy whitish, as also the thighs ; 

 under tail-coverts yellowish white, with dusky centres. 



Only fully adult birds seem to acquire the black on the throat. 

 It is absent in young birds also, the latter being browner and having 

 the eye-streak very pale yellowish buff. 



Hob. Greater Antilles. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Kingston, Jamaica, June 5, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1859 (0. S.). 



b,c. <S 2 ad. sk. Jamaica. Sclater Coll. 



d. Juv.sk. Jamaica. P. H.Gosse,Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of S. adoxa.) 



e. tf ad. sk. Jamaica. P. H.Gosse, Esq. [0.]. 

 /. c? ad. ; g. Moneague, Jamaica, Aug. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Juv. sk. 1861 (0. S. # F. D. G.). 



h. 5 ad. sk. Moneague, Jamaica, Feb. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1865 {Dr. H. Bryant), 

 i. 2 a d. sk. Moneague, Jamaica, Feb. Sclater Coll. 



1865 (Br. H. Bryayit). 

 k. $; l,m. 2 San Cristobal, Cuba (G. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ad. sk. F. Ganmer). 



n,o. $ o a d- Cuba (ex Mm. G. F. Late- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



sk. rence). 



p. (J ad. sk. San Domingo (A.Salle). Eyton Coll. 



q. c? ad. sk. San Domingo. Sclater Coll. 



r. d> ad. sk. Porto Rico (Dr. H. Bryant). Sclater Coll. 



s. <5 ad. sk. Porto Rico (Z>>\ H. Bryant). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



t, u. $ 2 ad - sk. Porto Rico. Dr. H. Bryant [P.]. 



v. 2 inim. sk. Porto Rico (B. Swift ; Sm. U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



no. 36483\ 



