4 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 8l 



Range. — Restricted to Saona Island, Dominican Republic. 



Remarks. — -Though occasional birds in a considerable series of the 

 palm tanager from the main island of Hispaniola approach in colora- 

 tion the single skin at hand from Saona, none is quite so extensively 

 white below, or so bright and light a green above, so that it seems 

 permissible to name a Saona form on the basis of this scanty material. 



Family FRINGILLIDAE 

 LOXIGILLA VIOLACEA MAURELLA, subsp. nov. 



Characters. — Generally similar to Loxigilla violacca afUnis (Ridg- 

 way)' but larger, with heavier bill. 



Description. — Type, U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 250,456, Tortue Island, 

 Haiti, collected February 2, 1917, by Dr. W. L. Abbott. Throat, 

 short line above eye, and under tail-coverts somewhat darker than 

 burnt sienna ; axillars and under wing-coverts partly burnt sienna and 

 white mixed ; plumage otherwise deep black. Bill, feet, and tarsi black 

 (from dried skin). 



Mcasureuients (in millimeters). — Three males, wing 82.4-84.3 

 (83.4), tail 70.2-71.9 (71.2), culmen from base 16.2-16.8 (16.4), 

 depth of bill at base 12.9-13.8 (13.3), tarsus 22.1-22.8 (22.4). 



One female, wing y'J.'/, tail 65.8, culmen from base 15.5, depth of 

 bill at base 11.9, tarsus 22.9. 



Type, male, wing 82.4, tail 71.9, culmen from base 16.8, depth of bill 

 at base 13.8, tarsus 22.8. 



Range. — Known only from Tortue Island, Haiti. 



Remarks. — The greater size of the present form is more plainly evi- 

 dent on direct comparison of skins from Tortue with those from 

 Hispaniola proper than from examination of the measurement tables, 

 maurella being very appreciably larger and more robust. The only 

 female seen is blacker than the majority of affinis. The new form is 

 represented by three males and one female, all collected by Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott, February i and 2, 191 7. 



Following are measurements of L. v. affinis for comparison : 



Sixteen males, wing 71.9-79.2 (76.7), tail 61.7-69.3 (65.3), culmen 

 from base 14.2-16.5 (15.2), depth of bill at base 11.0-12.9 (12.3), 

 tarsus 19.2-23.4 (21.1) mm. 



Nine females, wing 67.2-75.8 (71.2), tail 59.8-67.0 (63.5), culmen 

 from base 12.6-14.3 (13.6)" depth of bill at base 10.4-11.8 (10.9). 

 tarsus 19.7-22.3 (21.0) mm. 



^ Pyhrrulagra oMnis "(Baird)" Ridgway, Auk, 1898, p. 322. (Port-au-Prince, 

 Haiti.) 

 " Average of eight. 



