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Fringilla. 



Phonipara. 

 Fringilla zena* Linn. 1758. Var. jjortoricensis. Several speci- 

 mens. The resemblance of this bird to specimens of F. zena from the 

 Bahamas is very great; the only difference I have been able to perceive 

 is a slightly brighter tinge of olive and perhaps less extent of blackish 

 beneath ; it would seem to be intermediate between zena and omissa 

 of Jardine's Catalogue of Birds of Tobago. 



Coturniculus. 

 Fringilla passerina Wils. Specimens representing the F. tixicrus of 

 Gosse from Jamaica, and not distinguishable from the bird of the 

 United States. 



Loxia. 



Spermestes. 



Loxia cucullata Swain. Several specimens of this well known 

 African bird. It has probably been naturalized in the island 

 as the common European sjoarrow has in Havana. 



Pyrrliulagra. 



Loxia portoricensis Daud. Several specimens, but none in adult 

 male plumage. The subgenus Loxigilla Lesson was founded on Frin- 

 gilla noctis. The type of Bonaparte's subgenus Pyrrliulagra is the 

 present bird, and includes violacea of the Bahamas, etc., but not ano- 

 xantha which may form the type of a third subgenus, Loxipasser, nearly 

 allied to SpermopMla and PJionipara. These three birds show well 

 the folly of modern generic divisions, either of them approximat- 

 ing more closely to older genera than to each other. 



Icterus. 



Icterus xanthomus Sclater. Several specimens. 



Icterus dominicensis. f Var. portoricensis. This bird in full 

 plumage is easily recognized from the St. Domingo bird by the 

 absence of yellow on the hypochondriacs, and the greater propor- 



* Linnaeus describes two birds under the name of Fringilla zena in the edition 

 of 1758, the first now called Tanagra zena and the second generally known as 

 Fringilla or Phonipara bicolor, but which should be FringiUa or Phonipara zena 

 Linn. 



t Icterus dominicensis Var. hypomelas Dubus, Bonap. Conspec. Vol. 1. p. 433, 

 from Cuba. Adult, marked very much as in portoricensis but with less yellow on 

 the lower part of abdomen. Young, greenish olive with the throat blackish, very 

 similar to the dominicensis from St. Domingo. This variety in adult plumage 

 resembles ^jo?'^orice?iA«s quite closely, but dillers entirely from it in the plumage of 

 the young. The number of specimens is too large to admit any probability of 

 this difference not being constant. 



