346 Birds collected durwg a Cruise in the Caribbean Sea. 



I found this bird shy and not at all easy to procure. 

 It frequents thick bush country. I found the Cuban 

 bird fairly common at the eastern end of Cuba on the 

 north coast, where it seemed to be more gregarious than 

 in the Grand Cayman. 



Spindalis salvini Cory. 



Spindalis salvini Cory, Auk, iii. p. 499 (1886). 



I obtained four males of this fine species, which, owing to 

 its skulking habits, is difficult to find. 



Mr. Cory has compared it with S. pretrei, but it is a 

 much larger bird than that species. Mr. Eidgway, who has 

 not seen any examples of this Cayman bird, very rightly 

 says that, " judging from the description, it seems to be more 

 like S. benedicti than any other.'^ I have compared my 

 specimens with a series of the latter species in the British 

 Museum collection and with eight examples of -S. pretrei in 

 my own, and I find that the chestnut coloration of the 

 breast in S. salvini is more defined than in S. benedicti, 

 the lower margin tending to be well differentiated from 

 the clearer yellow of the lower chest, whereas in S. pretrei 

 the colours blend imperceptibly and are lighter. The 

 median throat-stripe is lighter in S. salvini as compared 

 with S. benedicti and of a more yellowish tint, not " more 

 orange '' as suggested by Mr. Ridgway, and the rump is 

 paler — brownish orange as compared with chestnut. 



S. salvini is, in fact, generally less rich in coloration 

 in every way than S. benedicti, but is far nearer to it than 

 S. pretrei. The back in S. salvini is yellowish olive and is 

 distinctly lighter than in S. pretrei. 



I append wing-measurements of four specimens of each 

 species : — 



S. sidvini. S. henedicti. S. iiretrei, 



mm. mm. mm. 



88 80 72 



88 81 69 



85 79 74 



85 82 73 



The female has never been described. 



