19. rnoxir.uu. 14!J 



3. Phonipara tricolor. 



The Bahama Sparrow, Catesby, N. II. Carolina, i. p. 37, pi. 37 



(1731). 

 Le Verdier de Bahama, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 202 (1760). 

 Fringilla bicolor, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 321 (1760). 

 Tiaris omissa, Jard. Ann. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 332 (1847). 

 Phonipara bicolor, Bp. Consp. i. p. 106 (1850) ; A. fy E. Newt. Ibis, 



1859, pp. 147, 376, 378, pi. xii. fig-. 2 ; Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 



1860, p. 376 ; Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 1869, 

 pp. 583, 596; Scl. $• Sain." Nomencl. Ar. Neotr. p. 29 (1873) ; Scl. 

 P. Z. S. 1874, p. 175, 1876, p. 14 ; Lawr. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. 

 pp. 58, 191, 233, 239, 270, 278 (1878) ; id. torn. cit. pp. 355, 457, 

 487 (1879) ; Scl P. Z. S. 1879, p. 765 ; Lister, Ibis, 1880, p. 41 ; 

 Cory, B. Bahamas, p. 91 (1880) ; id. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi. 

 p. 152 (1881) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1884, p. 168. 



Spermophila bicolor, Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N II. vii. p. 119 



(1861). 

 Phonipara omissa, Sclater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 106 (1862) ; E. C. 



Taylor, Ibis, 1884, p. 167. 

 Phonipara zena, Tar. portoricensis, Bryant, Proc. Bost. Son. N. H. x. 



p. 254 (1866). 

 Phonipara zena, Baird, Brewer, $• Ridgw. Hist. N. Amer. B. ii. 



p. 93 (1874) ; Maynard, B. East. N. Amer. p. 87, pi. ii. (1879) ; 



Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. pp. 218, 221 (1880) ; Coues, 



Check-list, p. 59 (1882) ; id. Key N. Amer. B. p. 392 (1884) ; 



Cory, B. S. Domingo, p. 63 (1884). 

 Eueth'eia bicolor, Gundlach, J. f. O. 1874, p. 312; Cory, List B. 



West Indies, p. 12 (1885) ; id. Auk, iii. p. 209 (1886); A. O. U. 



List N. Amer. B. p. 289 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above dull olive-green, more dusky 

 on the mantle and upper back ; lesser and median coverts olive- 

 green like the back ; greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills dusky brown, externally edged with dull olive- 

 green ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers dusky brown, 

 edged with dull olive green, the centre ones washed with the latter 

 colour ; crown of bead dingy black, washed with olive and gradually 

 shading off into the dusky olive of the back ; lores, feathers round 

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

 and under tail-coverts rather more asby, and margined with ashy 

 whitish ; sides of body and flanks olive-greenish ; thighs dusky 

 olive : under wing-coverts and axillaries sooty black like the breast ; 

 quills below blackish, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 

 4 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-15, tail 1"7, tarsus 0"6. 



Adult female. Different from the male and lacking the black. 

 General colour above olive-greenish, including the head ; wing- 

 coverts like the back ; quills and tail-feathers dusky brown, edged 

 with olive-greenish ; sides of face dull asby brown, washed with 

 olive ; throat sooty grey, extending on to the chest and down the 

 sides of the breast, and slightly washed with olive ; centre of breast 

 and abdomen whitish, slightly tinged with yellow ; sides of body 



