688 FEINGILLID.E. 



p. 21 (1876) ; Merrill, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 126 (1878) • 



Sennett, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. v. p. 390 (1879) ; Ridgw. Proc. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 217 (1881) ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 233 



(1882) ; Cones, Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 52 (1882) ; id. Key N. 



Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 365 (1884) ; Bicknell, Auk, i. p. 330 (1884) ; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 190 ; Cory, ListB. West Indies, p. 13 (1885) ; 



Merriam, Auk, ii. p. 63 (1885) ; Ayersb. t. c. p. 280 ; Salvin 8f 



Qodman, Biol. 'Centr.-Amer., Aves,\. p. 384 (1886). 

 Coturniculus tixicrus, Gosse, B. Jamaica, p. 242 (1847); Scl. P. Z. S. 



1861, p. 74 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 116 (1862) ; Scl. $ Salv. Nomencl. 



Av. Neotr. p. 32 (1873). 

 Fringilla (Coturniculus) passerina, Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. x. 



p. 254 (1866) ; Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 1869, 



p. 597. 

 Amruodromus passerinus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 96, no. 7420 (1870). 

 Amniodromus tixicrus, Gray, t. c. p. 96, no. 7423 (1870). 

 Coturniculus passerinus, var. pallidum, Ridgio. in Coues, Key N. 



Amer. B. p. 137 (1872) ; Beard, Brewer, §■ Ridgw. Hist. N. Amer. 



B. i. p. 556 (1874) ; Hensh. Rep. Zool. Expl. \00th Merid. p. 257 



(1874) ; Ridgw. Rep. Orn. 40th Parallel, p. 467 (1877). 

 Coturniculus passerinus, 0. pallidus, Coues, B. N.-West, p. 131 (1874). 

 Coturniculus savannarum, A. fy E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 104 



(1881) ; Cory, Auk, iii. p. 212 (1886). 

 Amniodromus savannarum passerinus, Ridgw. Auk,\\. p. 371 (1885) ; 



Brewst. Auk, iii. p. 107 (1885); Fox, t. c. p. 317 ; Ridyw. Proc. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 355 (1885) ; A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. 



B. p. 267 (1886) ; Cory, Auk, iii. p. 212 (1886). 

 Coturniculus passerinus perpallidus, Coues, Check-list N. Amer. B. 



p. 52 (1882) ; id. Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 366 (1884). 

 Amniodromus savannarum perpallidus, Ridyw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



Tiii. p. 335 (1885) ; A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. B. p. 268 (1886). 



Adult male in winter plumage. General colour above mottled with 

 black and rufous ; the mantle and upper back black, with a terminal 

 spot of rufous, most of the feathers externally creamy white ; lower 

 back and rump ashy grey, the feathers broadly tipped with rufous, 

 with a subterminal black spot ; lesser wing-coverts olive-yellow ; 

 median and greater coverts ashy grey or ashy brown towards the 

 base, subterminally black, edged and tipped with greyish white, 

 with a rufous spot in the centre of the tip of the feathers ; bastard- 

 wing blackish, edged with greyish white ; primary-coverts blackish, 

 edged with ashy brown ; quills blackish, the primaries edged with 

 ashy brown, washed with olive towards the base and whitish 

 towards the ends ; the inner secondaries rufous near the base of 

 the outer web, subterminally blackish, with an indentation of 

 white near the end of the outer web, the tip and base browner ; 

 upper tail-coverts black, edged with ashy grey and subterminally 

 rufous ; tail-feathers pointed, blackish, edged with ashy grey, with 

 an oblique pattern of pale ashy near the end of the outer web ; 

 crown of head black, the feathers edged with ashy ; along the centre 

 of the crown a broad streak of creamy-buff feathers centred with 

 black ; hind neck ashy, mottled with rufous ; lores and feathers 

 round eye ashy white, surmounted by a narrow line of yellow, con- 

 tinued into a narrow eyebrow of pale ashy ; ear-coverts, cheeks, 



