BIRDS OF THE WEST INDIES. 149 
Andros Island. 3 males: 2 black, 1 mixed; 4 females: 2 mixed and 2 black. 
Caicos. 1 male, black; 1 female, black. 
New Providence. 19 males: 16 black, 3 mixed; 3 females: 2 gray, 1 nearly 
black. 
Inagua. 29 males: 21 black, 2 gray, 6 mixed; 36 females: 24 black, 3 gray, 
g mixed black and gray. 
San Domingo. 29 males: 21 black, 3 gray, 5 mixed; 17 females: 2 black, 
9 mixed, 6 gray. 
Jamaica. 13 males: 7 black, 6 grayish; 7 females: 2 black, 4 olive gray, I 
mixed. 
114. The female of both Pyrrhulagra portoricensis and P. grandis are black 
in adult plumage. 
115. Pyrrhulagra grandis (Lawr.). Loxigilla portoricensis, var. grandis 
Lawr. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. IV., p. 204, 1881. 
116. Pyrrhulagra noctis and varieties (Loxigella noctis of authors). Old 
males are usually black and the females brownish gray; but in the series before me, 
two black specimens, one from Grand Terre and the other from St. Lucia, are 
marked females. It is not unlikely that the collector may have made a mistake in 
determining the sex. There is considerable variation in the color of the throat and 
crissum in birds from different islands and also in birds from the same island. 
Birds from Grenada and St. Vincent are apparently the same, having the 
throat rufous brown, some birds from Grenada showing almost an orange shade of 
brown. The crissum and throat are alike in color, Specimens from Martinique 
and St. Lucia have the throat chestnut brown, and birds from Martinique show 
comparatively little rufous on the crissum, although the average number of 
specimens in a series from Martinique which show traces of rufous on the crissum 
is greater than in a like number from St. Lucia; the color of the crissum is chestnut 
brown. In Martinique and St. Lucia specimens, there is so little difference in 
coloration that it is hardly worth while to separate them. From Dominica north- 
ward the birds are somewhat duller in coloration, the black plumage, especially in 
specimens from Antigua, having an ashy tinge. A series of specimens from 
Antigua have the under parts and lower back grayish black, some of them showing 
a faint tinge of olive when held in the light. The quills and tail are dark brown, 
not black. 
