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Sp. Char. Male: — Above black, with a slight grayish tinge; a superciliary 

 line of white, from bill to nape; throat ashy white; breast bright 

 vellow, extending upon the sides of the abdomen, and shading into 

 gray upon the flanks ; crissum white, wing-feathers slightly edged 

 with dull white; a white patch at the base of the primaries, forming 

 a bar on the wings ; edge of the carpus bright yellow; tail, color 

 of the back, tipped with white, wanting upon the middle, and largest 

 upon the two outer feathers. 



Female: — Slightly paler than the male, but otherwise resem- 

 bling it. 



Length, 4.50; wing, 2.60; tail, 1.90; tarsus; 70; bill, .54. 



Habitat. Bahamas. 



Certhiola portoricensis (Bryant) . 



Ccereba flaveola Vieill. Ency. Meth. 1820, p. 611. 



Nectariniajiaveola Moritz. Wiegm. Arch. fiir. Naturg. II, p. 3S7 (1836). 



Certhiola Jiaveola ScL. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 54 (1S62) (St. Tliomas).— 



Taylor, Ibis, 1S64, p. 166. — Cassin, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 



1S64, p. 271. 

 Certhiola Jiaveola var. portoricensis Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 



X, p. 252 (1S66). 

 Certhiola sti. thomce Sund. Consp. 1869, p. 621 (.^). 

 Certhiola portoricensis Sund. Consp. 1869, p. 622.— Finsch, Verhandl. 



Zool: Botan. Gesells. Wien, XXI, p. 760 (1S71).— Scl. & Salv. 



Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 16 (1S73). — Bd. Bvvr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. 



Am. Bds. I, p. 427 (1874).— GuNDL. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, 



p. 2i6 (1878).— Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VII, p. 172 (1884) ; ib. 



VIII, pp. 28, 29 (1885).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 9 (1885). 



Sp. Char. — Back dark slate color, showing an olive tint in some specimens ; 

 in others the back almost black; rump oli\e yellow; breast color of 

 rump, showing more olive on the abdomen ; throat gray ; second, 

 third, fourth, and fifth primaries banded at base with white, sixth 

 primary nearly so, rest of primaries showing white on the webs at 

 the base. 



Length (skin), 4.25; wing, 2.30; tail, 1.45; tarsus, .72; bill, .50. 

 Habitat. Poito Rico and St. Thomas. 



Certhiola sancti-thomic Rjdgw. 



Certhiola portoricensis Finsch, Verhandl. Zool. Botan. Gesells. Wien, 

 XXI, p. 760 (1871).— Baird, Am. Nat. VII. p. 672 (1S73) and 

 authors from St. Thomas and St. John. 



Certhiola sancti-thomce Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII, pp. 28, 29 

 (18S5).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 9 (1S85). 



