Cory on ike Birds of the West Indies. 



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margins; ear-coverts brown, showing pale shaft-lines; throat ru- 

 fous brown, palest on the upper portion, the centre of the feathers 

 showing dull white; rest of underparts having the feathers white 

 edged with brown, giving the feathers a clean-cut, pointed appear- 

 ance, tlie white portion somewhat resembling a broad arrow head; 

 quills and tail brown ; upper surface of tail-feathers showing a rufous 

 tinge; under mandible and tarsus pale. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 9.40; wing, 5.25; tail, 3.50; tarsus. 1.70: bill, i. 

 Habitat. Guadeloupe and Martinique. 



Cichlherminia sanctae-luciae (Scl.). 



Margarops herminieri ScL. P. Z. S. 1S71, p. J68. — ScL. & Sm.v. Nom. 



Avium Neotr. p. 2 (1S73). 

 Margarops sanctce-lucicB^ci.. Ibis. 18S0. p. 73. — Ai.Len, Bull. Xutt. Orn. 



Club, V, p. 165 (iSSo). 

 Margarops kerminieri vav. semperi Lawr. ISIS. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 



V, p. 165 (iSSo). 

 Cichlherminia sanctcc-lucicv Sharps, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. \'I, p. 328 



(1S81).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 5 (1SS5). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above light brown, showing a faint olive tinge, the 

 color paler than in C. herminieri ; throat dull white, showing 

 brown shaft-markings; feathers of the breast brownish white, 

 edged with olive brown ; abdomen white, showing the brown mark- 

 ing on the sides; quills and tail light brown; under surface of tail 

 ashy brown ; under tail-coverts showing reddish brown at the base : 

 under mandible and tarsus dull \ellow. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 10; wing. 5.10: tail. 3.70: tarsus. 1.55; bill, .90. 

 Habitat. Santa Lucia. 



Cichlherminia dominicensis (I.awk.). 



Margarops hermin- 

 ieri Lawr. Pr. U. 

 S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 

 5-' (187S). 



Margarops domini- 

 censis L.\WR. Pr. U. 

 S. Nat. Mus. Ill, p. 

 16. (i§So). 



CicJilhermiH i a do- 

 minicensis Sharpe. 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. 

 VI. p. 328 (1881). 

 — Cory, List Bds. 

 W. I. p. 5 (1885). 



