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A. Head without any yellow. 



1. P. zena. Culmen decidedly curved. Above dull grayish ohve- 

 green. $. Head and lower parts, especially anteriorly, dull black, mixed 

 with whitish posteriorly. 9 • Head and beneath ashy. Wing, about 

 2.00; tail, 1.75. Hah. West Indies (Cuba, Hayti, Porto Rico, St. 

 Bartholomew, Jamaica, etc.) ; also Key West, Florida (Maynard). 



B. Head with yellow patches. 



2. P. pusilla. Culmen perfectly straight. Above rather bright olive- 

 green. (J, asupraloral stripe, a patch on chin, and upper part of throat, 

 with edge of wing, bright yellow ; forehead, lores, and jugulum black. 

 9 with the black and yellow only indicated, or wanting. 



Whole crown, cheeks, breast, and upper part of abdomen black. 

 Hah. Middle America, from Mirador to Panama, and southward. 



var. pusilla } 



Only isolated spots, covering forehead, lore, and base of lower jaw, 

 and patch on jugulum, black. Hah. West Indies. (Porto Rico, 

 Hayti, Jamaica, Cuba, etc.) ..... var. olivacea.^ 



3. P. canora.'' Culmen decidedly curved. Above bright olive-green ; 

 beneath pale ashy, whitish on anal region. A bright yellow broad 

 crescent across the lower part of the throat, curving upward and 

 forward, behind and over the auriculars, to above the eye. ^. Lores, 

 auriculars, and chin, and a band across the jugulum, black. 9 • Chin, 

 etc., chestnut-brown ; no black on jugulum. Hah. Cuba. 



Phonipara zena, Bryant. 



THE BLACK-FACED FINCH. 



Fringilla zena, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, (ed. 10,) 1758, 183 (based on Passer bieolor bahamensis, 

 Catesby, Carol. 1, tab. 37, Bahamas). — Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. X, 1865, 254. 

 Fringilla bieolor, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, (ed. 12,) 1766, 324 (same original as zena). 

 Sjxrmophila bieolor, GossE (Jamaica). Phonipara bieolor, Newton (St. Croix). 

 ? Tiaris omissa, Jardine, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1847, 332 (Tobago). Phoniimra omissa, 

 ScLATER. Phonipara marehi, Baird, Pr. A. N. Sc. Phila. Nov. 1863, 297 (Jamaica). 

 Fringilla zena, var. marehi, Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. 1867, 43. Frinfiilla {Phonipara) 

 zena, var. 2^ortoricensis, Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. X, 1865, 254 (Porto Eico). 



Sp. Char. Male adult (627, Bryant coll. ; Inagua). Above dull olive-green, the head 

 and lower parts black, the two colors blending insensibly into each other ; feathers of 

 the middle of the abdomen and crissum edged with whitish. Wing, 2.10 ; tail, 1.80, 

 culmen, .35 ; tarsus, .63 ; middle toe, .50. 



Female adult (983, Bryant coll. ; Inagua). Above dull olive-green, beneath ashy, 

 whitish on the abdomen and crissum ; no black. Wing, 2.10. 



Male jnv. (981, Bryant coU. ; Inagua). Like the adult female, but the head anteriorly, 

 the chin, throat, and jugulum medially, black. Wing, 2.05. 



Hab. West Indies (Bahamas ; Jamaica, Porto Rico ; St. Croix, Tobago ?). 



1 Tiaris pusilla, Swainson, Phil. Mag. I, 1827, 438. Phonipara pusilla , Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1855, 159. 



2 Emberizn olivaeea, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 309. Pho7iipara olivacea, Sclater, P. Z. S, 

 1855, 159. 



^ Loxia eanora, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 858. Phonipara eanora, Bonap. 



