12. coccrzrs. 



305 



Adult. Upper half of the head leaden grey, with a broad blackish 

 band through the eye extending from the nostril to over the ear- 

 coverts ; the grey of the crown passing gradually into brown on the 

 remainder of the upper parts and slightly glossed with olive on the 

 centre tail-feathers, remainder of the tail -feathers dusky black with 

 broad white ends ; under surface of body buiF ; under wing-coverts 

 and basal margins to the quills buff; remainder of the quills brown : 

 " bill black, with more than half of the lower mandible yellow ; iris 

 hazel; legs greyish blue" {G. I. Gaumer). Total length 12-3 

 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 5, tail (J-7, tarsus 1*1. 



Hah. Coast of Louisiana, throughout Central America and the 

 Antilles, ranging from Mexico, to Panama and Colombia, Venezuela, 

 Guiana, down to the Lower Amazons. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Tampico, Mexico, Feb. ( W. B. 



Richardson). 



b. $ ad. sk. Dos Arroyos (1000 ft.), State 



of Guerrero, Sept. {Mrs. H. 

 H. Smith). 



c. $ ad. sk. Cacoprieto, Tehuantepec, Jan. 



(F. Sumichrast). 



d. e. Ad. sk. Temax, Yucatan (G. F. Gau- 

 mer). 



Cozumel Island (G.i^. Gaumer'). 

 Buctzotz, April \G. F. Gaumer). 

 Ruatan Island {G. F. Gaumer). 

 Puerto Cabello, Honduras {G. 



M. Whiteley). 

 Chiriqui, A eragua. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvm-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-CTodman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvia-Godman CoU. 



& 



Bogota. 



British Guiana. 



South America. 



Trinidad. 



Grenada, W. I. (F. A. Ober). 



St. Vincent {F. A. Ober). 



Santa Lucia^ AprU (Ramage). 



Santa Lucia (Seynper). 

 Martinique {F. A. Ober). 

 Montserrat {Sturge). 

 Virgin Gorda, Nov., Dec. (C. 



£. Cory). 

 Porto Eico {Dr. Bryant). 

 Puerta Plata, Sau Domingo, 



Nov. {C. B. Cory). 

 San Domingo. 

 Jamaica, Feb. 

 Jamaica. 



Captains KeUett 



Wood [P.]. 

 Purcha.sed. 

 Seebobm Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Zoological Society. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll 

 Sclater Coll. 

 West Indian 



mittee. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Com- 



Purchased. 

 Salvin-Godman CoU. 

 Philip Gosse, Esq. 

 [C,l. 



p. Sternum. Jamaica. Philip Gosse, Esq. 



[CJ. 



I have recognized two closely allied subspecies, as they each 

 present slight but constant characters, and aU three forms of 



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