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FRINGILLIDJE. 



1. Loximitris dominicensis. 



Chrysomitris (Loximitris) dominicensis, Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. 



IT. xi. p. 93 (1866). 

 Fringilla dominicensis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p 81, no. 7185 (1870). 

 Chrysomitris dominicensis, Con/, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi. p. 152 



(1881). 

 Loximitris dominicensis, Cory, Birds of Haiti and S. Domingo, 



p. 67 (1885) ; id. List Birds West hid. p. 12 (1885) ; id. Auk, iii. 



p. 207 (1886). 



Male. Bill light brown colour, with the top dusky ; whole head 

 and throat black ; back aud scapulars olive ; centre of each feather 

 dusky ; upper tail-coverts bright olive-yellow ; wings with the quills 

 and coverts blackish brown ; the smaller coverts with so much of 

 the tips olive as to appear almost wholly of this colour ; the greater 

 coverts and all the quill-feathers, except the first, bordered externally 

 with the same colour, very narrowly on the' primaries and suddenly 

 wider on the secondaries, but only on the posterior half, so that the 

 closed -wing presents a distinct blackish bar running nearly across 

 its centre ; tail with the centre feather, outer web of first, and tips 

 of all blackish brown, the rest bright chrome-yellow ; beneath yel- 

 low, washed with olive on the flanks, and brightest on the crissum. 

 {Bryant.) 



Immature birds are dull olive, mottled with brownish on the 

 back, and the underparts yellowish white, streaked with pale brown. 

 (Cory.) 



Length 4-10 inches, wing 2*60, tail 1-55, tarsus 0-53, bill 0-38. 



Hub. San Domingo. 



30. ACANTHIDOPS. 



Type. 



Acanthidops, Ridgio. Br. U. S. Nat. Mus. iv. p. 335 (1882) . A. bairdi. 



Dr. Sclater, who has examined the type specimens, says (' Ibis,' 

 1884, p. 241) that he would " propose to place Acanthidops near 

 Chrysomitris in the family Fringillidce." * 



Range. Costa Rica. 



1. Acanthidops bairdi. 



Acanthidops bairdi, Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. iv. p. 335 (1882) ; 

 Sclater, Pbis, 1884, p. 241 ; Salvin § Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., 

 Aves, i. p. 433 (1886). 



Adult. Above dull olive-brown, the back washed with rusty ; 

 wings dusky, the middle and greater coverts tipped with pale rusty, 

 forming two distinct bands ; the inner secondaries broadly edged 

 with darker rusty ; remaining secondaries narrowly streaked with 

 dark umber-brown, the primaries with light, dull ochraceous, or 

 yellowish olive. Tail dusky, the outer webs slightly greenish 



* I have accordingly followed Dr. Sclater in his opinion as to the position of 

 the genus. 



