i886.] Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. A\ 



Genus Catharopeza Scl. 



Catharofeza Sclater, Ibis, iSSo, p. 73. 



Catharopeza bishopi (Lawr.). 



Leticopcza bishopi Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 151 (187S) ; ib. Pr. 



U. S. Nat. Mus. I. p. 486 (1S7S).— Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. X, 



p. 228 (1885). 

 Catharopeza bishopi Scl. Ibis, iSSo, p. 73. — Lister, Ibis, 1S80, p. 40. — 



Cory, List Bds. W. I, p. 8 (1SS5). 

 Habitat. St. Vincent. 



Sp. Char. Male: — "The general plumage is smokj black; rather darker 

 on the head ; the sides are blackish cinereous ; a circle of pure white 

 surrounds the eye ; a large roundish spot on the middle of the thi-oat ; 

 the upper part of the breast, and the middle of the abdomen, are dull 

 white, somewhat mixed with blackish on the throat and with cinere- 

 ous on the abdomen ; a very small spot on the chin, and the tips of 

 the feathers on the upper part of the throat are dull -white ; the black 

 on the upper part of the breast has the appearance of a broad band, 

 separating the white of the throat from that of the lower part of the 

 breast; the under tail-coverts are cinereous-black at base, ending 

 largely with dull white; wings and tail black, the outer two tail- 

 feathers have a small white spot, triangular in shape, on the inner 

 webs at the end ; bill black ; tarsi and toes very pale yellowish-brown, 

 perhaps much lighter colored in the living bird, nails also pale. 



Length (fresh), 5I in. ; wing, 2I ; tail, 2-^ ; tarsus, \. Two speci- 

 mens marked as females do not differ in plumage from the males." 

 (Lawr. 1. c.) 

 Habitat. St. Vincent. 



Genus Seiurus Swains. 



S'<'/«;-w5 SwAixsoN, Zool.Journ. Ill, p. 171 (1827). 



